Aug 21, 2025 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, ION Clean Energy (ION), a leading provider of innovative post-combustion carbon capture solutions, announced a new offering called ICE Blocks™. These standardized modular units provide customers with a cost-effective option to address smaller scale post-combustion carbon capture from natural gas and other hard to abate flue gas emissions.
ICE Blocks™ are self-contained, fully modular carbon capture units that include the carbon capture island, flue gas ducting, CO2 compression and dehydration, and solvent and maintenance tanks. Other module options also available can include any additional balance-of-plant support that may be required by ION’s customers.
“Leveraging the high performance of our ICE-31™ solvent, we have created a truly innovative, modular capture solution that is available today,” said ION CEO Tim Vail. “In addition to our large-scale offerings, we want our customers to have commercially viable options for smaller emission sources. The ICE Blocks™ provide a proven, cost-effective, holistic solution package for those smaller scale point sources that can be deployed quickly and safely to anywhere that has road access.”
ION selected global engineering firm Modular Plant Solutions (MPS) to serve as their modularization partner on developing the ICE Blocks™ offering. Under this partnership, the MPS team led the engineering and design of the units, which will be available in multiple sizes to fit different commercial needs.
“We chose to partner with MPS because of their proven track record in modular design and highly collaborative working dynamic,” said Ben Gurtler, ION’s Chief Operating Officer. “The complementary expertise of our respective teams combined with the performance of ICE-31™ will make for a truly impactful product. We believe the work we’re doing together on ICE Blocks™ will provide the efficiency and scale we need to meet the growing demand for our carbon capture technology and will allow us to start capturing more CO2 sooner.”
As the modularization expert, MPS will leverage its extensive experience and engineering capabilities for ION’s ICE Blocks™ units. The MPS team will apply their patented modularization system approach for scaling volume production of the units.
“Our modularization design will make it possible for ION’s ICE Blocks frames to be shipped by truck, rail or containerized cargo ship, so they can get their technology to more plants in more places,” said Russell Hillenburg, President, CEO and co-founder of Modular Plant Solutions. “We are excited to contribute to the advancement of carbon capture technology and support ION Clean Energy’s mission to have a large-scale impact on global emissions reduction.”
About ION Clean Energy, Inc.
ION was founded in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado and is a worldwide leader in carbon dioxide capture technologies that reduce overall costs and make CO2 capture a more viable option for hard-to-abate emissions. The company is commercializing proprietary liquid absorbent process technology that demonstrates transformational performance and is more effective and cost efficient than current commercial solutions to capture CO2 emissions from power generation and industrial point sources. Most significantly, ION’s technology can capture more than 95% of CO2 emissions with extremely low emissions, unprecedented solvent stability, and low energy requirements. www.ioncleanenergy.com.
About Modular Plant Solutions
Modular Plant Solutions (MPS) is a global engineering firm specializing in process modularization, optimization and project implementation based in Friendswood, Texas, outside Houston. The MPS team brings best-in-class plant solutions and hands-on experience for a variety of processes for the energy industry — from renewables and chemicals to oil & gas companies and more. MPS is leading the way in plant modularization with its patented system, offering cost-effective, easily transportable, and scalable solutions that can be shipped and assembled anywhere in the world. MPS’ highly skilled team has nearly 550 years’ combined experience in construction, engineering, fabrication and operations. Find out more at https://modularplantsolutions.com and on LinkedIn.
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ION Clean Energy
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