Bluegrass Business Development Partnership

LIf you ask 3 different people “what exactly is CO2?” you‟ll likely get a variety of answers, such as:
- “Is it the stuff that comes out of the exhaust pipe in my car?” (Incorrect)
- “It’s what makes soda pop fizz.” (Wrong)
- “I think it’s the stuff that’s causing global warming.” (YES!)

If you‟re Dr. Liang Hu, President and Chief Technologist of an amazing local startup: 3H Company, LLC, you‟ll get a much different, more dramatic answer to the CO2 question. “Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the major contributing factor to our planet‟s global warming. It is a by-product of combustion, and when it is successfully captured from post combustion flue gas (think: coal fired power plant emissions) it can be utilized commercially to extricate more oil and natural gas from a depleted oil well. At the same time, CO2 will be sequestered into that oil well.”

News of Dr. Hu and his team‟s research on CO2 absorption has attracted significant interest worldwide. His patented process to increase the rates of CO2 capture and reduce the capture cost will improve energy efficiencies, by saving as much as 80% of the current state-of-the-art technology (MEA process) costs for doing so.
Complicated? Perhaps.

Scientifically revolutionary? Definitely.