
19 Jan CE demonstration plant – a year in review
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It has been roughly a year since we broke ground in Squamish, and we now have our full end-to-end air capture demonstration plant up and running. The entire CE team, with the support of our collaborators and suppliers, has been hard at work to make this happen.
The plant is operating, and removes roughly 1 ton of CO2 from the air each day. The CO2 gets processed through all the major sub-systems that will be required to operate a future full-scale commercial plant. As part of this milestone we want to share the progression of our plant coming to life, with a series of photos below.
We’ll let the pictures say the rest, we hope you enjoy them. -GH.
- Breaking ground – Jan 2015
- Pouring the air contactor foundation – Feb 2015
- Completed air contactor foundation and pump pit – Feb 2015
- Air contactor structure construction – Mar 2015
- Completed air contactor – Mar 2015
- Pellet reactor vessel arrival – Mar 2015
- Pellet reactor vessel install – Mar 2015
- Installation of pellet reactor support equipment – Apr 2015
- Installation of pellet reactor support equipment – Apr 2015
- Detail of calciner fabrication – May 2015
- Calciner fabrication at Axton Fabrication – May 2015
- Calciner fab at Axton Fabrication – May 2015
- Pellet washing and drying equipment – June 2015
- Pellet reactor module (vessel + all support equipment) at substantial completion – June 2015
- Over view of pellet reactor module, washing, and drying equipment – June 2015
- Air contactor, fully piped in and after pump installation – July 2015
- Overview of air contactor area.
- CE plant tour, in the pellet reactor area.
- Calciner arrival – Aug 2015
- Calciner arrival – Aug 2015
- Installation work on the calciner module – Sept 2015
- Calciner module fully installed, with cladding in place – Sept 2015
- Members of Squamish First Nation offering a traditional blessing to open kick-off day – Oct 2015
- Attendees at CE plant kick-off day – Oct 2015
- CE kick-off day, plant tour in calciner area – Oct 2015