This integration substantially reduces the L-DAC plant’s overall emissions and can still enable carbon removal. Large-scale L-DAC plants have been designed to use natural gas for heat and to co-capture the CO 2 produced during combustion of the gas without the need for additional capture equipment. In the future L-DAC could shift to fully electric operation (currently only available for small-scale calcination). While S-DAC could be powered by a variety of low-carbon energy sources (e.g. heat pumps, geothermal, solar thermal and biomass-based fuels), the current high-temperature needs of today’s L-DAC configuration does not allow that level of flexibility and could at best operate using low-carbon fuels such as biomethane or renewables-based electrolytic hydrogen.

If all of these planned projects were to go ahead, DAC deployment would reach around 5.5 Mt CO 2 by 2030 this is more than 700 times today’s capture rate, but less than 10% of the level of deployment needed to get on track with the Net Zero Scenario. Plans for a total of eleven DAC facilities are now in advanced development.

In June 2022 1PointFive and Carbon Engineering announced plans to deploy 70 large-scale DAC facilities by 2035 (each with a capture capacity of up to 1 million tonnes per year) under current policy and voluntary and compliance market conditions, while Climeworks announced the construction of their largest plant to date, Mammoth (capture capacity up to 36 000 t CO 2/year), which should become operational by 2024. Synthetic fuels (up to 3 million litres) are also set to be produced by the Norsk e-Fuel AS consortium in Norway by 2024, including (but not using exclusively) CO 2 captured from DAC. The first large-scale DAC plant of up to 1 Mt CO 2/year is in advanced development and is expected to be operating in the United States by the mid-2020s.Īn improved investment environment led to announcements of several new DAC projects in 2021, including the Storegga Dreamcatcher Project (United Kingdom aimed at carbon removal) and the HIF Haru Oni eFuels Pilot Plant (Chile producing synthetic fuels from electrolysis-based hydrogen and air-captured CO 2).

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