B&W, Newpoint Gas to Jointly Market CO2 Capture Tech for Steel Industry
06/02/2023 - Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) will work with natural gas processing and treating specialist Newpoint Gas on solvent-based CO2 capture solutions for the steel industry and others, the companies have announced.
According to B&W and Newpoint Gas, the partnership brings together B&W’s patented SolveBright regenerable solvent technology and Newpoint’s modular regeneration skid. Together, they’ll jointly market and supply carbon capture solutions for the steel industry, they said.
“This is a great opportunity to work with Newpoint to bring B&W’s advanced post-combustion carbon capture knowledge to industrial clients,” said Joe Buckler, B&W senior vice president, clean energy. “Newpoint has dozens of commercial regeneration skid applications, and their expertise complements B&W’s proven boiler flue gas treatment technology.”
Newpoint chief executive officer Wiley Rhodes said the teaming agreement will benefit both companies and their customers.
"We are excited to build on our hydrogen production and power generation partnership with B&W to further accelerate progress in the growing industrial boiler CO2 capture market,” Rhodes said. “B&W’s expertise in boiler flue gas combined with our more than 20 years’ experience in designing gas treating and regeneration skids will revolutionize CO2 emissions capture from industrial boilers.