Carbon dioxide capture process models cut industry emissions

Current users o include the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), University of Texas at Austin, Cansolv Technologies, American Electric Power and Rentech. AspenTech CEO Mark Fusco explains that its carbon capture models allow cost-effective design and optimisation of manufacturing processes that separate out carbon dioxide before it is emitted. In this way, he says, process manufacturers can better achieve their operational excellence goals through environmental regulation compliance. “We are working in lock-step with the world’s leading engineers and researchers across government, academia and the process industries in the search for promising new alternatives for emissions controls and clean energy sources,” he adds. Most recently, AspenTech released out-of-the-box modelling functionality for coal gasification, bio-fuels and other alternative energy sources in its aspenONE V7 Process Engineering solution suite. Randall Field, executive director of the Conversion Research Program at MIT’s Energy Initiative, says: “Using AspenTech’s software we are able to identify and analyse innovative ways to reduce the parasitic energy loads and costs associated with carbon dioxide capture.”