MTR Carbon Capture Announces Completion of the World’s Largest Membrane-Based Carbon Capture Plant

October 2024

Wyoming plant will capture 55,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year

Commercial scale facility is the culmination of over 15 years of development of MTR’s Polaris™ polymeric membrane technology

Newark, California (October 16, 2024): Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Carbon Capture today announced the mechanical completion of a carbon capture plant at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC) in Gillette, Wyoming. The plant will capture up to 150 tonnes of CO₂ per day from Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station (DFS) coal fired power plant, producing 99.9%+ pure liquid CO₂ with a 90% capture rate. This system will be the first commercial scale membrane capture plant to be put into operation when it starts later this year.

“This is a very exciting milestone for MTR and an important step in scaling affordable, clean technology for point source carbon capture” said Brett Andrews, President of MTR Carbon Capture. “MTR’s Polaris™ membranes have been proven, with over 15 years of development and a series of pilot and demonstration carbon capture plants of increasing scale, culminating in the largest membrane capture plant ever built,” said Andrews.

In addition to the 150 tonne per day plant, MTR has been awarded a full scale FEED project for a 3 million tonne per year capture plant at DFS by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED).

The MTR Carbon Capture Polaris™ membrane process uses no chemicals and very little water, making it a much cleaner and environmentally friendly capture technology compared to alternative solvent based capture systems. Polaris™ also does not require heat or steam input, which generate additional CO₂ emissions, as many capture approaches do, resulting in low operating costs. Capture systems utilizing MTR’s membrane technology are highly modular and compact, providing flexibility for limited space applications and reducing capital costs.

The MTR Carbon Capture system at the Wyoming ITC is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s large scale pilot carbon capture program and is funded through grant DE-FE0031587. This program supports the development of key technologies that will significantly improve the economics and environmental performance of point source carbon capture. MTR has been the recipient of over 20 awards from the DOE in support of the development and scale up of the Polaris™ membrane capture technology.

About MTR Carbon Capture

MTR Carbon Capture is headquartered in Newark, California and develops, engineers and manufactures membrane technologies for point source carbon capture. MTR’s Polaris™ polymeric membrane is highly modular, scalable and cost effective, proven over 15 years with extensive field testing in conjunction with the U.S DOE.

MTR Carbon Capture is a division of Membrane Technology and Research Inc., a global leader in the development and commercial supply of membrane-based separation systems for over 40 years, with more than 450 membrane gas separation systems deployed globally.