Direct air capture of CO2: the economics?
Direct Air Capture of CO2 (DAC) will cost around c$200/ton of CO2 abated, all in, and apples-to-apples with other technologies assessed by TSE. This data-file models out the economics of…
Climeworks: direct air capture breakthrough?
Climeworks is a private, Swiss company, founded in 2009, commercializing a direct air capture technology, to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. It has raised $125M by early-2021. Its first…
Carbon capture and storage: research conclusions?
…CO2 within MTpa-scale supply chains. Direct air capture is a frontier for CCS that aims to absorb CO2, not from an exhaust gas with 4-40% concentration, but from the atmosphere,…
Fans and blowers: costs and energy consumption?
…equipment costs and 0.3kWh/ton of energy consumption. 3,000 tons of air flow may be required per ton of CO2 in a direct air capture (DAC) plant. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
Industrial gases: out of thin air?
…grids like batteries, by scaling up and down to smooth out an increasingly volatile power grid? What implications for blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, Allam Cycle oxy-combustion, direct air capture energy…
Air conditioning: energy demand sensitivity?
…(0.6%). Total global demand for air conditioning consumes 1,885TWH of electricity (7% of all global electricity, 2.5% of all global useful energy). IEA numbers see air conditioner demand trebling, from…
Cryogenic air separation: costs and energy economics?
…membrane technologies. Leading companies in cryogenic air separation are screened here, and include Linde (4,000 air separation plants built worldwide) and Air Products (1,200 plants built) and also Air Liquide….
Aker Carbon Capture: technology review?
Aker Carbon Capture is a public company, listed in Norway, with c120 permanent employees in 2022. It has developed novel solvents for post-combustion carbon capture, with low energy penalties (1.6…
Windy physics: how is power of a wind turbine calculated?
…is useful to note that the mass of air passing the turbine can be broken down further as density of air x volume of air flowing past the turbine per…
Air conditioning: energy consumption?
The average US home uses 2,000 kWh of electricity for air conditioners each year. Air conditioning energy consumption is broken down from first principles in this data-file, as a function…