RTI International teams with BASF on carbon capture

Triangle Business Journal

RTI International is teaming up with BASF Corp. on a $2 million grant to develop a new way of capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and other industrial facilities.

With the U.S. Department of Energy grant, Research Triangle Park-based RTI will partner with German company BASF on making a system that is not dependent on water and uses 40 percent less energy than current emissions scrubbing systems. Dave Myers, vice president of the engineering and technology unit at RTI, said in a statement that working with BASF will help provide a path for rapid commercialization of the technology. The grant is part of the Energy Department’s stimulus funding.

RTI employs about 2,200 in the Triangle.



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