By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, July 4, 2022
Direct air capture technology can be essential to help the world fight climate change. There are already many start-ups, governments and research groups pushing this technology. One of them is the Swiss cleantech company Climeworks.
[post_relacionado]The company has broken ground in Iceland to build its largest and newest direct air capture and storage plant, called Mammoth.
The facility represents a demonstrable step in the company’s ambitious expansion plan: multi-mega ton capacity by 2030, on track to achieve gigaton capacity by 2050.
In September 2021, Climeworks commissioned Orca, its first such plant, boosting the availability of high-quality carbon removal supply. Orca is capable of absorbing 4,000 tons ofCO2 per year and has a modular design consisting of stackable units.
Mammoth is Climeworks’ eighteenth project and its second commercial direct air capture and storage plant. It will also employ a modular architecture and is designed with a nominalCO2 capture capacity of 36,000 tons per year when fully operational. Located in Iceland, construction is expected to take 18 to 24 months.
Carbfix, Climeworks’CO2 storage partner, will be responsible for the permanent subway storage of carbon dioxide. The Hellisheiði power plant, operated by ON Power, will supply Climeworks’ Mammoth plant and Carbfix’sCO2 injection sites with renewable energy to run the entire direct air capture and storage process.
This material from the Ecoinventos portal was edited for clarity, style and length.
Source: https://ecoinventos.com/mammoth/