The Climate Impact of Direct Air Capture
DAC technology is considered one of the essential technologies in carbon dioxide removal. In IPCC modelled pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C, the global cumulative negative emissions from DAC are 310 billion tons of CO₂ by 2100.
Problem
Several industry leaders have estimated the immense negative emissions required from nature- and technology-based solutions.
- Scaling up Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is an urgent priority, as are efforts to rapidly reduce emissions, if we are to meet the temperature goal (1.5°C) of the Paris Agreement.
- Direct Air Capture (DAC), a novel CDR technology that extracts CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, is considered one of the essential technologies in climate change mitigation.
- DAC enables us to permanently store CO₂ below the ground to revert global warming or use the CO₂ as circular feedstock to replace fossil sources of carbon.
- In IPCC modelled pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C, the global cumulative negative emissions from DAC are 310 Gt of CO₂e by 2100.
Why direct air capture?
Carbon capture and removal through natural sinks, CCUS and DAC is vital for achieving net zero by 2050.
- Some processes that produce CO₂ lack viable technical opportunities to decarbonize
- Abatement costs for various industries are high, increasing demand for sequestration opportunities
- As fossil fuels decrease, the demand for circular carbon increases
Why ReCarbn?
DAC technology uses chemical sorbents to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere. ReCarbn’s unique innovation circulates this chemical sorbent between reactors to reduce energy consumption and cycle time compared to traditional fixed solid sorbent technologies.
- Energy consumption can be reduced by 30% since only the sorbent reactor requires heating and waste energy consumption of heating & cooling of the surrounding material is minimized
- Separation of reactors allows specific design optimization of adsorption and regeneration sections
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