Energy Association Presidents Tour CO2 Direct Air Capture Facility

Carbon Engineering hosted the presidents of the Energy Council of Canada (ECC) and the United States Energy Association (USEA) for a tour of its Direct Air Capture (DAC) carbon-capture test facility in British Columbia. Jacob Irving (ECC) and Mark Menezes (USEA) spent the day touring the facility and in information sessions with the project’s team.

Carbon Engineering has been developing DAC technology for over a decade. Its Innovation Centre is in British Columbia in Squamish (S?wx?wú7mesh). The Centre has established proof of concept for DAC. The Innovation Centre has an engineered capacity to capture approximately 1000 tonnes of carbon annually.

The company’s technology will be used in a commercial-scale facility under construction in Texas by 1PointFive. That plant will capture up to 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The commercial plant is in an advantageous geological area. The CO2 will be sequestered in subsurface formations.

The Carbon Engineering design satisfies several important environmental and commercial requirements. It is a closed-loop design, allowing materials to be re-used to minimize costs. Elements of the capture system are modular, which permits efficient mass manufacturing of components. The standard design is scalable. And finally, the process output is a pure CO2 stream that can be measured by conventional equipment.

A breakthrough in this technology could have a profound effect on carbon removals for energy users and, possibly, enable reductions of past accumulations.