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Solvit Carbon Process
Aker Clean Carbon is leading SOLVit – a major scientific research and development programme to produce improved, cost-effective amines for the CO2 capture process. This eight-year NOK 317 million programme was launched in 2008 together with Sintef, an independent research organisation, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU.
The SOLVit programme aims to generate better and more cost-effective processes and chemicals to manage CO2 emissions from the process industry and from coal and gas-fired power stations. Aker Clean Carbon and Sintef have developed chemical solutions based on amines, a chemical that has the ability to capture CO2. The SOLVit programme aims to make the amines more effective and cheaper to use.
The programme also includes building a new laboratory at Tiller in Trondheim, which will be situated next door to Sintef’s multi-phase laboratory.
The lab will be a unique test centre for pilot projects, including a 30 metre tall tower and processing column. This is the same as the height needed in full-scale industrial facilities. Using the programme as a basis, NTNU will offer positions to six doctoral candidates and ten master students within the subject of CO2-capture.