Accelerating Energy-Efficient Atmospheric Carbon Capture Technologies

Introduction

The IPCC and the EU recognize the importance of CO2 removal from the atmosphere to achieve their climate-neutrality objectives and limit global warming to 1.5C. AirInMotion provides an efficient and sustainable technology that captures CO2 from air.

Technology Overview

It operates independently of location as stand-alone units or integrated in industrial processes utilizing low-grade heat. It uses state-of-the-art adsorbents that are abundant, cheap, and non-toxic, which are regenerated during continuous capture and release cycles.

The technology is modular, whereby larger capture plants are composed of multiple synchronized units that use central auxiliary components. Industrial integration facilitates CO2 capture at scale and results in high-quality CO2 that can be used as a feedstock for the production of valuable products in a circular carbon economy.

Industry Impact

AirInMotion offers an opportunity to address industries whose indirect emissions in the supply chain cannot be removed at source, achieving significant emission reductions through remediation where this was not previously possible or has not been addressed by regulation or policy requirements.

Its characteristics enable AirInMotion to be globally adoptable, supporting Europe and the wider global societies to meet their carbon emission targets.

Project Objectives

This project will focus on three objectives:

1. The demonstration of the effectiveness of the AirInMotion technology at scale through the construction of industrial prototypes reaching TRL-6.
2. The validation of the technology through the deployment of demonstrators in selected industries, including airports, the food industry, and IT data centers. Further deployment will demonstrate a fully circular system using low-grade heat to provide research-grade CO2, which is in-situ used as refrigerant.
3. The development of commercialization and business strategies for a new spin-out company which will progress the economic, technological, and societal impacts of the technology in the future.