Sucking up CO2DAC faster than you can say DAC.
Big Picture
There are already billions of dollars in demand for carbon removal, and that demand is expected to jump by orders of magnitude in the next decade. Sucking CO₂ directly out of the air is still prohibitively slow, pricey, land-intensive, and energy-intensive. For direct air capture to meet market demand and help stabilize the climate, more efficient and compact systems are needed to run faster and last longer.
How it Works
Carbyon has developed a novel direct air capture design that represents a paradigm shift for the size and speed of carbon removal systems. Carbyon’s rotating drum system pumps CO₂ through one side of a drum, where it physically binds to a functional material within seconds. That same material is then swapped to the other side of the drum where it is heated for just a few minutes, releasing high-purity CO₂.
Unfair Advantage
Carbyon uses atomic layer deposition, a thin film deposition technique developed for the photolithography industry, to deposit CO₂ binding chemicals onto a substrate. The thin film layer uniquely provides a high surface area for fast binding with CO₂ and enables very efficient heating of the material for releasing CO₂. Shorter cycles translate to more CO₂ removed per unit area.
03
Minutes per ton
of CO₂ removed
HANS DE NEVE FOUNDER & CEO
Hans is an expert in thin film technologies, having worked on them in the telecom and solar industries prior to founding Carbyon.
JASPER SIMMONS CTO
Jasper was a senior mechanical design engineer for 8 years at MI Partners focused on high tech mechatronics.
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