The SWAP is not a carbon capture process but a laboratory-verified carbon conversion and elimination process. The SWAP has been independently verified by standard analytical instruments to convert CO2 in the presence of H2S over a catalyst that is abundant and inexpensive. The SWAP creates incentives for the carbon-emitting industries to rapidly institute on-site CO2 capture programs. Widespread implementation of the SWAP can develop additional profitable markets for CO2, while also improving the processing economics of sour gas and high-sulfur crudes.

Laboratory studies show the SWAP drives a sulfur cycle which enables the customer to generate H2S from most hydrocarbon wastes. Landfills in particular may benefit from this process as they emit methane. These sites can also become a source of raw materials. The SWAP, which converts CO2 by rearranging its atomic components, may be used to create new carbon-sulfur molecules called Carsuls, which may find application as carbon fiber-like materials in construction, aerospace, manufacturing and electronics.

Unrefined sour natural gas is fed into a catalytic reactor where the SWAP reaction occurs, and CO2 and H2S are converted into water, sulfur and carbon. The SWAP has been laboratory verified to reduce H2S to below 4ppb and convert 99.98 percent of the CO2. The SWAP may be ideal for remote sour gas fields, capped because of high production costs for H2S disposal and gas transport. The SWAP may also be of value to sour gas processing units that have routine difficulty reducing H2S tailgas emissions from Claus reactors and its variants.

The SWAP-driven Sulfur Cycle allows for related reactions that can produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide. For refiners this may be a cost-effective solution to recover some hydrogen while it may find other applications for fuel cells.