A power plant in Tennessee is the site of a project using carbon dioxide (CO2) to help manufacture carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be used in a variety of products from wind turbine blades to cellphone batteries to lightweight bicycle frames.
SkyNano Technologies, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based developer of a manufacturing process to produce carbon-based nanomaterials using CO2 and electricity, recently announced its first-ever output of CNTs from flue gas at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) John Sevier Combined Cycle Plant near Rogersville. The 871-MW Sevier plant began operation in 2012 and was named a POWER Top Plant award winner that same year.
