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Inertial is approaching carbon capture from an aerospace engineering perspective: can we use gas compressors and supersonic nozzles to freeze and separate CO2 from industrial exhaust? This approach uses no toxic chemicals, generates water rather than consuming it, and can easily scale up to be able to capture 1 million metric tons of CO2 per year at a single site.
Major Components of Industrial Exhuast
H2O: Water Vapor - Target 90+% capture
Water is a widely overlooked product of combustion and industrial processes. Instead of being released into the atmosphere to then fall as rain wherever it may, Inertial will collect this water at the source to then be injected into local municipal water sources and/or aquifers. A 750 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant emits 528 million gallons of water per year. A 90% capture rate would produce 475 million gallons of water per year which is enough to service all of Salt Lake City for 6.5 days.
CO2: Carbon Dioxide - Target 50+% capture
A 750 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant emits roughly 2.4 million tons of CO2 per year. Inertial aims to capture 50+% of the CO2 emitted from this plant which means preventing 1+ million tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere. This is the equivalent of the carbon sequestered annually by 1,000,000 acres of US forests. These numbers are from a single power plant. There are over 3,400 fossil fuel-fired power plants in the United States.