Mitico, a California-based startup, said it finished a carbon capture demonstration at a Bangchak refinery in Thailand. The system uses a potassium-based sorbent and ran for 400 hours, capturing 99% of CO2 from varying flue gas. The company says the technology works with flue gas containing 3 to 18% CO2 and is designed as a plug-and-play addition for industrial sites. The demo is part of a broader push to test carbon capture in Southeast Asia. Mitico also has a project in Canada under the CanmetENERGY program and is working on a commercial-scale unit called Denali, targeting 10,000 to 50,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Bangchak plans to reach net-zero by 2050, and this test helps evaluate whether the technology fits real refinery conditions. For readers tracking carbon capture, the key numbers are the capture rate, the runtime, and the cost per tonne. Mitico hasn't released detailed cost figures yet, but the company claims its sorbent durability and cyclability are cutting capture costs. The next step is scaling from demo to commercial deployment.
