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3 August 2006 -- Sorbent Technologies Corp. announced today that it has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to lower the cost of providing mercury emission reductions. The money will be spent to demonstrate new, improved methods to manufacture the company's brominated carbon adsorbents for power plant mercury emission control.
Sorbent Technologies invented an adsorbent material that efficiently captures and sequesters this mercury before it is emitted from plant smokestacks.
In month-long trials supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the company's patented technology has now been demonstrated at full scale at typical power plants in Michigan, North Carolina and North Dakota. Injected into the ductwork at these plants, the materials removed an average of from 80 percent to over 90 percent of the vaporous mercury over those periods. Another month-long trial begins in a few weeks at a power plant in Illinois.
"At many power plants, the cost of reducing mercury emissions is already quite low," said Sid Nelson Jr., the company's President. "This NSF funding should enable us to lower the cost of producing the new materials in large quantities even more, potentially saving utilities and ratepayers nationwide tens of millions of dollars annually."
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