Innovation Anthology #612:
New Sky Energy has developed no waste technology to scrub hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide from sour gas.
This clean chemistry company from Boulder, Colorado is a recent winner of the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge.
As CEO Deane Little explains, New Sky is attacking a very serious source of pollution.
DEANE LITTLE: The Province of Alberta produces 3.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas every year. A third of that is sour gas. The hydrogen sulphide that is in the gas is a deadly toxin. So it really has to be removed.
Deane Little says New Sky Energy will use the Grand Challenge funding to pilot its technology in Wyoming and Alberta.
DEANE LITTLE : We would do it on site at a well site, and we would have a couple of trailers that are scrubbing the gas and removing the hydrogen sulphide and the CO2. And then we’re converting the sulphide into sulphur, regenerating the capture agent, and converting the CO2 into carbonates like soda ash or baking soda. So all of that would be done on site,
New Sky’s scrubbing process uses the inherent energy in hydrogen sulphide and it significantly lowers carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere.
Thanks today to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2014-05-15