2024 NCCC Brochure - Flipbook - Page 6
Innovator Advantages
Technology development is the primary function
of the NCCC. Testing at the site offers a significant
economic advantage to technology developers
due to the NCCC’s co-funding arrangement
with DOE and other sponsors. Developers incur
no costs for using the existing infrastructure and
staff services unless their test requires additional
infrastructure that does not broadly benefit future
NCCC testing.
Expanded scope includes CO2 capture
for natural gas power generation,
CO2 conversion and utilization, and direct
air capture technologies
Third-party technology developers from the
public and private sectors leverage the testing
experience at the facility to refine and confidently
scale up their technologies. Data generated at
the site has proved reliable and accurate.
The NCCC offers a wealth of exceptional benefits
to our technology developers—most notably,
a highly trained and experienced staff who
collaborate with governments, technology
companies, universities, industrial companies and
startups to quickly advance their technologies
toward commercial deployment. Our NCCC
team includes:
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Design engineers with R&D experience in
technology scale-up
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Research engineers who collect and evaluate
data for in-depth technology understanding
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Project managers with R&D expertise to plan
and execute the full project life cycle
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Experienced operations and maintenance staff
Support staff to develop contracts and
enact measures required for intellectual
property protection
Technology developers and the NCCC’s roughly
125 experienced team members have successfully
pilot-tested more than 80 unique technologies.
“
Testing at the National Carbon Capture Center
allowed our Proteus and Polaris membranes
to optimize and scale up in a real-world
environment. Lessons learned showed us the
importance of testing with real gases. The
successful NCCC tests have provided us the
confidence to pursue industrial pilots.
”
Tim Merkel, R&D Director, Membrane Technology & Research
