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New B.C. facility will accelerate CG2 capture and conversion development, piloting and commercialization
A partnership between academia, non-profit and in dustry will test new technologies designed to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a new Technology Commercialization and Innovation Centre (TCIC), set to open in B.C. in early 2017.
Using a collaborative model, the centre will serve as a test facility and bring together experts able to address the challenges of scaling up and commercializing promising new technologies. But it will not play favourites, says Naoko Ellis, senior research director of CMC Research Institutes' Carbon Capture and Conversion Institute (CMC.CCCI).
"I can't really say, 'These are the best,' or 'These are going to solve our problems,'" says Ellis, who is also a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia. "We're not married to any certain technologies for capturing or converting, which places us in a good position to look at it objectively and see how it might make sense in certain cases."
CMC Research Institutes is a federally incorporated not-for-profit company dedicated to accelerating innovation to eliminate industrial GHG emissions.
CMC.CCCI is building the TCIC on Mitchell Island in Richmond, a Vancouver...