News
October 2010:
Spanish utility company,
IBERDROLA, has announced that Carbozyme has been selected as one of the
projects under the first call of the Perseo Awards, which are designed
to promote research in the energy sector through support for
state-of-the-art initiatives that may help address future challenges in
this field. Carbozyme's project, "Enzyme / Membrane CO2 Capture" was
seleceted as one of the winners in the "Technologies for capture and
storage of CO2 and clean combustion" category. When making its decision,
IBERDROLA took into account the profile of the candidates and their
experience, conducted a scientific assessment of the project from the
point of view of innovation, and analysed its financial, environmental
and social feasibility. With the Perseo Awards, the IBERDROLA is seeking
to promote budding projects and companies offering high technological
and innovative value that involve a substantial advance in economic,
environmental and social terms in relation to current solutions.
IBERDROLA will look into the possibility of taking a stake in these
companies, in which it could invest up to 4 million euros. The PERSEO
selection committee recognized the importance of Carbozyme's appraoch
that employs high efficiency, low energy, liquid membranes to capture
and separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from a wide variety of gas streams
with special emphasis on flue gas. The most important of the many
potential applications for this technology is the capture of CO2 from
electric power generation flue gas stacks. This is a fundamental
technology for combating increases in greenhouse gases and thereby
mitigating global warming".
September 2010:
Under this program,
Carbozyme is developing a Lightweight, Small Volume, CO2 Removal
Technology for Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) and Undersea
Platforms. The "Artifical Gill" UBA is a novel hybrid, no-bubble,
endless duration CCR that will replace the fixed capacity systems
currently used by combat swimmers. This enzyme-drived, biomimetic
process paralles that used by fish and expands on related work we have
done for NASA applications to the Mars mission space suit and Mars
mission space ship (Trachtenberg et al 1997, 1999a, 2004).
May 2007:
Carbozyme's patent application "Enzyme Systems for
Processing Gas" is granted by the Canadian Patent Office.
October 2006:
The D.O.E. awarded
Carbozyme funding for two key projects beginning in 2007. Carbozyme
receives the highest single total award, and is the only group to be
awarded two grants under the D.O.E. Carbon Sequestration Research
Program. The two projects are joined into a single project "Development
of Biomimetic Membranes for Near Zero PC Power Plant Emissions".
