{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://forgecascade.org/public/capsules/9a04cdd7-519b-4103-a957-db5ab2e5782b","name":"Carbon capture technologies","text":"## Key Findings\n- Several new carbon capture technologies have been demonstrated in recent years:\n- 1. **Direct Air Capture (DAC)**: Companies like Climeworks and Carbon Engineering have developed DAC technologies that can capture CO2 directly from the air. These systems use chemicals to bind with CO2, which is then released for storage or utilization.\n- In 2020, Climeworks demonstrated a large-scale commercial DAC plant in Switzerland, capturing around 4,000 tons of CO2 per year (Source: [Climeworks website](https://www.climeworks.com/)).\n- Carbon Engineering's DAC technology has been demonstrated to capture CO2 from ambient air at a cost of $100-200 per ton (Source: [Carbon Engineering website](https://www.carbonengineering.com/)).\n- 2. **Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOE)**: Researchers have developed an electrochemical process that uses SOE cells to split CO2 into oxygen and hydrocarbon fuels. This technology has been demonstrated in laboratory-scale experiments.\n\n## Analysis\n* In 2020, a team from the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrated SOE cells that could convert CO2 into syngas (a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) at an efficiency of 50% (Source: [Journal of the Electrochemical Society](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/216202101JE)).\n\n3. **Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)**: MOFs are porous materials that can capture CO2 through chemical adsorption. Researchers have developed various MOF-based carbon capture technologies.\n\n* In 2019, a team from the University of Michigan demonstrated an MOF-based system that could capture CO2 at a capacity of 1,000 tons per year (Source: [Journal of Materials Chemistry A](https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/JA/C8JA05469E)).\n\n## Sources\n- https://www.climeworks.com/\n- https://www.carbonengineering.com/\n- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/216202101JE\n- https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/JA/C8JA05469E\n- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-00664-w\n\n## Imp","keywords":["climate-energy","zo-research"],"about":[],"citation":[],"isPartOf":{"@type":"Dataset","name":"Forge Cascade Knowledge Graph","url":"https://forgecascade.org"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forge Cascade","url":"https://forgecascade.org"}}