ISTC News Highlights
Grundy County farm partners with Farm to Food Bank initiative
Nayak Farms in Grundy County is working with ISTC, Feeding Illinois, and other partners to donate fresh sweet corn to food banks as part of the Farm to Food Bank initiative. Read more about ISTC’s work with the project.
ISTC engineer Stephanie Brownstein gestures toward equipment for the biphasic solvent carbon capture project at Abbott Power Plant while speaking to visitors from the Department of Energy and Doosan Corporation. Photo by Travis Tate, U of I Facilities & Services.
ISTC leads extensive portfolio of carbon capture projects
Visitors from the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL) recently toured multiple carbon capture projects led by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC).
Because the unique geology of Illinois provides extensive potential to store carbon dioxide deep underground, the state is also an ideal location to develop, demonstrate, and deploy technologies to capture CO2 from point sources, remove CO2 from the ambient air, and beneficially use CO2. ISTC scientists and engineers lead a number of carbon capture, removal, and use projects backed by funding from the Department of Energy.
Read the full story on the ISTC blog.