Skyonic Corporation awarded a USD 117M construction contract for its Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS). Toyo-Thai Corporation (TTCL) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to the project. Toyo-Thai [N1] has also invested USD 1M in Skyonic to support the project.
“This is our first entry into North America as a full EPC provider, and we are looking forward to the experience”, said Hironobu Iriya, president and CEO of TTCL. “Building Capitol SkyMine plant — the first commercial-scale carbon-capture and utilisation plant in the US — will have global implications, and our experience in the energy market makes us an ideal partner for this project.”
“When we looked at EPC partners for the nation’s first commercial-scale carbon-capture and utilisation plant, Toyo‐Thai’s engineering experience really stood out to us”, said Joe Jones, founder and CEO of Skyonic.
Skyonic’s electrolytic carbon capture technology, SkyMine, will selectively capture CO2, acid gases and heavy metals from the flue gas of the Capitol Aggregates Cement Plant where the Capitol SkyMine facility will be retrofitted. The captured pollutants will be mineralised into solid products including sodium bicarbonate to be stored, transported and sold as safe, stable solids. Process by-products include hydrochloric acid and bleach that can be sold into the market. By producing valuable products using low-cost chemical inputs and operating under energy-efficient conditions, SkyMine captures CO2 at a substantially lower cost than other carbon capture technologies, allowing industrial emitters to turn a profit from reduced emissions.
