NGIF Accelerator through its Industry Grants program announced funding of $100,000 to launch an innovative carbon capture bench-scale prototype development project by Calgary-based Vortis Carbon Corp.(Vortis).

Vortis has developed a groundbreaking approach that holds the potential to significantly reduce the complexity and cost associated with carbon capture. This breakthrough technology offers a promising solution to one of the most pressing GHG-management challenges faced by industries today.

Vortis’s spinning disc separator (SDS) uses motion and vortices to separate CO2 based on its molecular weight. The SDS has demonstrated significant advantages compared to traditional carbon capture technologies and has the potential to deliver significant reductions in energy requirements and costs to remove carbon from flue gas emissions.

“Industries are putting more and more effort into solving the carbon capture challenge, and Vortis’s cost-effective and efficient technology offers a unique potential solution. NGIF is pleased to support Vortis’s technology development as they work towards validation and scale-up to make CO2 capture more cost effective and simple. The Industry Grants program and its focus on de-risking clean technologies through field trials and pilots of technologies like this one are part of NGIF’s integrated model of industry validation, customer creation, and technology commercialization,” said John Adams, President and CEO of NGIF Accelerator and Managing Partner of NGIF Cleantech Ventures.

“The Industry Grants program demonstrates the confidence of the natural gas industry in Vortis’s approach to novel carbon capture technology,” said Andrew McGovern, President, and CEO of Vortis. “All emitters are faced with a big challenge to decarbonize their operations cost-effectively. Current carbon capture technologies don’t deliver this, and there is a real need for simple and affordable ways for emitters to reduce their carbon emissions, at the scales required at their operations.”

The funding will allow Vortis to commercially demonstrate the technology at scale with select industry partners in Alberta in 2025 with a commercial rollout in 2026.

“Canadians want and need the affordable, reliable, clean energy service offering they have come to expect from the natural gas industry. When we created NGIF, it was our vision to bring the entire natural gas value chain together to support cleantech development that enhances environmental and economic performance for the sector. I am glad to see our vision in action, as its Industry Grants program continues to support technologies like Vortis,” said Timothy M. Egan, President and CEO, Canadian Gas Association and Chair, NGIF Capital Corporation.

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