Operations
Head Office and Engineering Facilities
HTC Purenergy is headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada at Innovation Place, one of Canada's newest university integrated research parks. Located next to the International Test Center for CO2 Capture at the University of Regina, HTC is strategically positioned amongst leading-edge petroleum and environmental sciences facilities, including the new International Performance Assessment Centre for CO2 Geological Storage (IPAC-CO2).
Technology Development and Demonstration
The innovative application and integration of the latest CO2 technology is key to our business strategy. HTC participates in collaborative research with the University of Regina who has pioneered Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology development since 1992. The University now boasts the most comprehensive carbon capture research and development facilities in the world.
International Test Centre for CO2 Capture
The University of Regina's Greenhouse Gas Technology Centre is home to the International Test Center for CO2 Capture (ITC). The ITC is dedicated to fundamental and bench-scale research with in-house facilities that include a fully operational CO2 capture pilot plant. The pilot plant is used to test and evaluate the performance of the latest CO2 absorbng solvents, column internals, and the latest in heat integration process designs that minimize energy usage in the CO2 capture process. This unique testing facility is equipped with state of the art process instrumentation and data acquisition systems which control, monitor and record a complete spectrum of process parameters.
Boundary Dam Pilot Plant
The Boundary Dam CO2 Pilot Plant is a fully operational CO2 capture plant in a coal fired working environment. Adjacent to SaskPower Corporation's Boundary Dam Power Station, this unit is used for pre-commercial technology demonstration, economic and technical feasibility testing, process integration evaluation and data acquisition under a wide range of operating conditions, using flue gas from a lignite coal burning facility.
Competitive Advantage
HTC has licensed, internationally developed technology, and has acquired a range of CO2 technologies to create a world leading carbon capture product offering. HTC is providing solutions to address CO2 capture and storage and continues to advance research in the capture of CO2, including breakthroughs in designer solvents, process optimizations, absorption efficiencies and heat duty reduction.
Currently CO2 storage and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) provide the immediate solution to the global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) challenge. Large industrial CO2 emitters require cost effective storage solutions and CO2 commoditized revenue models to effectively develop and implement carbon reduction strategies.
On September 3, 2008 HTC signed a global licensing agreement for carbon capture and storage technology with one of the world's leading power plant equipment supplier and power plant constructors - Doosan Babcock Energy of the UK and with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction of South Korea. Doosan is currently utilizing HTC's post combustion capture technologies, and will be marketing the system through their twenty regional offices worldwide.