Technology
What is Cseq?
Cseq is a unique decarbonisation technology and process that can be applied to any industrial plant, factory or power station where CO2emissions are captured.
Paladin Cseq Pty Ltd is selling Cseq decarbonisation licenses to industrial emitters to use its innovative decarbonisation technology and process, which can be applied to any industrial plant, factory or power station that produces and captures CO2 emissions, effectively making that factory or power station become carbon zero.
The Cseq process involves the installation of a modular Cseq plant alongside the industrial emitter, where captured CO2 emissions are fed into the plant, and the carbon is sequestered and converted to chemically safe and harmless bicarbonates and carbonates (which are valuable for a range of uses).
Essentially, the Cseq process takes captured CO2 emissions and utilizes the CO2 as a catalyst in a reaction with water that releases hydrogen ions. Subsequently, a process supplies the hydrogen ions to an electron source to generate hydrogen gas.
The green hydrogen output from the Cseq plant is valuable and can be used to generate carbon-zero electrical energy in an entirely circular closed loop, whilst delivering surplus electricity back to the factory and/or grid.
In the case of a gas-fired power station the green hydrogen can be blended with LNG to deliver high-yielding generation feed for carbon-zero electricity production.
In addition to making its emitting facility carbon-zero, the license to use the Cseq decarbonisation technology also provides the emitter source with substantial value-add opportunities via the production of low-cost green hydrogen, carbonates and bicarbonates.
The Cseq process/flowsheet (schematics)
Coal-fired power station
Green cement plant
Green steel plant
How does Cseq compare?
Sequestering captured CO2 via Cseq is far less costly than Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS):
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As CO2 does not need to be transported to a suitably certified storage site and injected underground;
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Close to the source, CO2 is converted to become environmentally inert, harmless and useful;
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This includes bicarbonates, carbonates and green hydrogen, all of which are valuable and can generate additional revenue streams outside the core activities of the emitter.
With respect to green hydrogen production, the Cseq process produces green hydrogen at a fraction of the cost when compared to current techniques. Specifically, green hydrogen production typically relies on electrolysis powered by renewable energy whereas via the Cseqprocess, water molecules are not split by high energy input (as is the case with electrolysis), but by the action of the CO2 input, requiring significantly lower amounts of energy.
As the Cseq process does not require osmosis filtered water, (which is the case for electrolysis), the amount of water consumed is also less and the cost of water is greatly diminished. Cseq can also use seawater!
In addition, via storage technology the Cseq generated hydrogen can be utilized within the Cseq plant allowing the process to be closed loop for both water and electricity usage, significantly reducing its operating cost.
Who needs Cseq?
Potential users of the Cseq technology are effectively any industrial emitter who must decarbonize their operations and/or become more sustainable (either via legislation or on a voluntary basis).
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Industrial facilities that capture CO2 but are having difficulty disposing of it in a safe and environmentally sound manner;
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Those who implement CCS but have technical and/or logistical challenges with injecting CO2 underground;
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Gas-fired power stations that wish to become cost-effective, carbon-zero electricity producers;
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Coal-fired power stations that wish to become cost-effective, carbon-zero electricity producers;
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Cement production facilities that wish to produce cost-effective green lime and green cement; and
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Steel production facilities that wish to produce cost-effective green steel.
