Invention Background

From 1999 to 2002, Professor Robert Amin conducted the laboratory tests for the Micro-Cell CO₂ removal technology.

Following successful laboratory tests this work was placed on a commercialisation path by Curtin University of Technology.

The CryoCell^® Technology was developed, in part, from the Micro-Cell lab scale work.

The CryoCell^® initially faced numerous challenges, both technical and financial, however these were overcome and Cool Energy received significant industry and academia, as well as investors and support from the Australian Government.

Cool Energy and Shell signed an agreement in early June 2005 covering the granting of rights to patents and the sharing of technical results and certain further developments and use in commercial applications.

A 2MMscfd (million standard cubic feet per day) demonstration plant is in operation at ARC Energy's Xyris site in the Perth Basin to demonstrate Cool Energy's CO₂ capture technology.

In the three years since Cool Energy's conception, it has moved from a 'concept' based company to a position of readiness for commercial application of its revolutionary new CO₂ capture technology.