Glenwood Management has installed the first carbon-capture system to be deployed in a high-rise building at the Grand Tier, a 30-story apartment tower it owns at Broadway and 64th Street in Manhattan.
Glenwood announced on Thursday that it plans to install the system from startup CarbonQuest—which scrubs carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas-fired boilers—across a 2.5M SF portfolio of NYC buildings in what the company says is the world's first large-scale application of carbon-capture technology in buildings.
CarbonQuest's system at the Grand Tier deploys compressors and piping, located near the boilers in the 20-year-old building's basement, which separate carbon dioxide in the flue exhaust from nitrogen and oxygen. In a multi-stage process, the system liquefies the CO2 and stores it in a metal tank.
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