8 Rivers Capital wins 7 DOE carbon capture grants work over $30M

In North Carolina, 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, was awarded 7 US Department of Energy grants worth over $30 Million to further develop its world-leading carbon capture technologies for flexible clean electricity that allows customers to achieve their net-zero ambitions.

These projects will advance the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle, Lime Direct Air Capture, and the Carbon8 technologies invented by 8 Rivers, and continue 8 Rivers’ 10 years of innovative leadership in advancing the global energy transition towards a net-zero carbon economy.

8 Rivers is partnering with global leaders in carbon capture to deliver this multi-million-dollar suite of projects:

• General Electric (GE): The Allam-Fetvedt Cycle optimized for high-variable renewable energy
• MIT: Negative carbon electricity from retrofit carbon capture and direct air capture
• National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL): Development of novel combustion codes for sCO2 combustion
• Parametric Solutions, Inc. (PSI): Building the world’s first syngas-fueled sCO₂ combustor
• Southwestern Research Institute (SWRI): Renewable energy storage through the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle
• SWRI: Develop a detailed design for a sCO2 oxy-fuel turbine for syngas and the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle
• UNOTech: Novel phase-change post combustion capture process for existing gas power plants

8 Rivers will be the Principal Investigator on two grants and provide its world leading carbon capture expertise to the five other projects. The DOE’s Advanced Projects Research Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) is supporting four of these innovative projects through its new Flexible Carbon Capture and Storage program, which aims to develop carbon capture technologies that can be responsive to grid conditions with large amounts of solar and wind. The two syngas projects will be funded through DOE’s Critical Components for Coal FIRST Power Plants grant program.