Engineering:Orca (carbon capture plant)
The Orca carbon capture plant is a facility that uses direct air capture to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It was constructed by Climeworks and is joint work with Carbfix, an academic-industrial partnership that has developed a novel approach to capture CO
2. The plant uses dozens of large fans to pull in air and pass it through a filter. The filter is then released of the CO
2 it contains through heat. The CO
2 extracted is later mixed with water and pushed into the ground, using a technology from Carbfix.
The plant started sequestering carbon dioxide in 2021. It is said to have cost between $10–15 million to build.[1] It is located in Iceland and is the largest facility of its kind on earth.[2][3][4] It is located about 50 kilometers outside Reykjavík next to the Hellisheiði Power Station, which is run by Reykjavík Energy.[5] It was inaugurated on 8 September 2021 in presence of Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland.
Carbon offsetting potential
Climeworks claims that the plant can capture 4000 tons of CO
2 per year.[6][7] This equates roughly to the emissions from about 870 cars.[8] It counts Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the reinsurance company Swiss Re as current customers.[9]
Infrastructure
References
- ↑ "World's biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland" (in en). 2021-09-09. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/worlds-biggest-plant-to-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-rock-opens-in-iceland-orca.
- ↑ "World's biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland". The Guardian. 8 September 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/worlds-biggest-plant-to-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-rock-opens-in-iceland-orca.
- ↑ "The world's biggest carbon-removal plant switches on". The Economist. 18 September 2021. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/09/18/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-removal-plant-switches-on.
- ↑ Birnbaum, Michael (8 September 2021). "The world's biggest plant to capture CO
2 from the air just opened in Iceland". https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/09/08/co2-capture-plan-iceland-climeworks/. - ↑ Brown, Chris (30 October 2021). "In Iceland, can a revolutionary new process actually help stop global warming?". https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/in-iceland-can-a-revolutionary-new-process-actually-help-stop-global-warming-1.6227198.
- ↑ "The next step towards a climate-positive world: Orca!". https://climeworks.com/roadmap/orca.
- ↑ "World's largest plant capturing carbon from air starts in Iceland" (in en). Reuters. 2021-09-13. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-largest-plant-capturing-carbon-air-starts-iceland-2021-09-08/.
- ↑ "World's biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland" (in en). 2021-09-09. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/worlds-biggest-plant-to-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-rock-opens-in-iceland-orca.
- ↑ Hook, Leslie (2021-09-08). "World's biggest 'direct air capture' plant starts pulling in CO
2". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/8a942e30-0428-4567-8a6c-dc704ba3460a.
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