MOVA’s selective air capture technology has broad market applicability.
Agriculture
Global food producers are under increasing pressure to provide an affordable, safe and secure food supply for the world's growing population. However, the high productivity, low cost agricultural systems needed to meet these production challenges typically conflict with the animal welfare and environmental standards that consumers value.
MOVA is working closely with the agriculture industry to resolve this conflict by developing sustainable, precision agriculture applications that directly align with the ESG (environmental, social, governance) goals of the world’s largest food producers. MOVA’s novel air purification technologies monitor and maintain optimal air quality conditions to optimize animal health and productivity and profitability for the farm. By being laser focused on system economics, farmers are able to stay competitive in the marketplace, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize their impact on the environment.
Manufacturing
Air quality is getting progressively more important for manufacturers. Whether it be ultra-clean precision manufacturing operations, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, or the recovery of trace compounds from a specialty flue gas, air purification can be difficult and expensive.
MOVA’s selective capture technology provides a high-efficiency air purification capability that can scale across small, medium, and large industrial applications. Selective air capture technology demonstrates significant cost advantages relative to legacy air emissions controls and has broad applicability across the manufacturing spectrum including semiconductor, chemical, food processing, energy, defense, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, optics, and electronics. Circular principles allow captured compounds to be harvested as marketable byproducts, opening the door to new revenue streams from what had previously been considered an environmental hazard.
Carbon Capture
The push to decarbonize the world’s industries is accelerating. With public and regulatory pressure to drastically curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mounting, the power generation industry and industrial sources are looking to carbon capture technologies to meet carbon neutrality goals and extend their facility’s service life. Thus far, economical carbon capture has been tough to achieve due to harsh flue gas conditions (e.g., high temperature, acidity, and competing contaminants) and high energy consumption.
MOVA’s patented panel-bed system is an ultra-efficient, multi-emissions air filtration technology used for selective contaminant capture from industrial processes, and it is particularly well suited to the carbon capture challenges facing natural gas-fired power plants and cement manufacturing plants. Initial testing has demonstrated the high flow rate, high productivity, and low energy consumption characteristics required for economical carbon capture. Additionally, capital costs are projected to be 50% lower than competing technologies. At MOVA, we believe $20/ton carbon capture is possible.
“Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller