VANCOUVER – The first commercial-scale deployment of Svante’s solid sorbent-based filter technology will be in a large-scale carbon capture pilot project at Delek’s Big Spring refinery in Texas.
Backed by the US Department of Energy (DOE), the project aims to capture 145,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the refinery annually – equivalent to taking 32,267 petrol-powered cars off the road every year. The project is set to contribute to overall environmental sustainability, reducing harmful pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and particulate matter often found in industrial post-combustion flue gas.
“This announcement is transformational for Svante and our entire industry as it enables us to further demonstrate the efficacy of our solid sorbent carbon capture technology at a large, commercial scale,” said Claude Letourneau, Svante’s president and CEO.
“Scaling second-generation carbon capture technology like Svante’s is critical for decarbonizing the world’s hard-to-abate industrial and energy sectors,” added Delek US’s president and CEO Avigal Soreq.
Svante’s plant will be connected to the post-combustion flue gas from the fluidized catalytic cracking unit – the source of CO2 emissions at the Big Spring refinery – where it will trap CO2 before it can escape to the atmosphere. Once trapped, the diluted CO2 in the flue gas will be concentrated into a useable, pipeline-grade purity, at which point it will be ready for safe transportation and deep underground storage or further industrial use.
Svante is pioneering carbon capture and removal technology using structured adsorbent filters and is establishing the world’s first commercially available MOF nanomaterial filter manufacturing facility in Vancouver, British Columbia.
It has commercial supply agreements in place with BASF to scale up its proprietary sorbent material, Calgary Framework 20 (CALF-20), and with 3M to supply the carrier substrates for it.
To bring the Big Spring project online, Delek US and Svante will collaborate with leading industry partners along with the DOE to drive advancements in carbon capture technology.
The project stands to create approximately 200 construction and operations jobs in 2027 and 2028. Delek US will partner with the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) and the United Steelworkers (USW) to equip the community’s new and existing workforce with the valuable skillsets needed for these large-scale projects.
