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Climeworks equipment displayed in 2015 on Bundesplatz in Bern. Climeworks was founded in 2009 by the mechanical engineers Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald. During their PhDs at the ETH Zurich, the two founders conducted research on direct air capture technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
A fast-growing Swiss climate-tech firm has chosen Austin for its new U.S. headquarters. Climeworks, based in Zurich, was founded in 2009 and specializes in direct air capture carbon removal.Its ...
Climeworks said its hub will be built in several stages with an eventual 1 million tons per year capacity by 2030 and construction starting as soon as possible.
Climeworks claims that the plant can capture 4000 tons of CO 2 per year. [7] [8] This equates roughly to the emissions from about 870 cars. [9]It counts Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the reinsurance company Swiss Re as current customers.
On May 8, 2024, Climeworks activated the world's largest DAC planet named Mammoth in Iceland. It will be able to pull 36,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere a year at full capacity, according to Climeworks, equivalent to taking around 7,800 gas-powered cars off the road for a year. [94]
Climeworks is also working with Reykjavik Energy on the CarbFix2 project with EU funding. This project, called "Orca," is located in Hellisheidi, Iceland. [120] It uses direct air capture technology in conjunction with a large geothermal power plant.
A pilot direct air capture facility operated by Climeworks is co-located at this site. It was partially funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, and captures up to 4000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. The carbon dioxide is captured, injected into the ground, and mineralized. [8] [9] [10]
Climeworks technologies can absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide which is chemically captured at the surface of a sorbent until it becomes saturated. At that point, the sorbent is introduced with 95 °C (203 °F) heat in a desorption cycle to drive out the high-purity carbon dioxide that can be used during the conversion step of the blue crude ...