{"id":16044,"date":"2022-05-31T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/?p=16044"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:53:17","slug":"large-whale-devours-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/industries\/refrigeration-ventilation\/large-whale-devours-co2_16044\/","title":{"rendered":"Large whale devours CO2<\/sub>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orcas slide elegantly through the seas, always looking for prey. No sooner have they found their victim than they have struck them power\u00adfully. But what do killer whales, also called orcas, have to do with improving air? In Island, \u201corca\u201d stands for power, strength and energy. All of this also applies to the latest CO2 <\/sub>suction unit from the Swiss company Clime\u00adworks in Iceland. With 4,000 tons of filtered carbon dioxide per year, \u201cOrca\u201d is currently the most powerful system for direct air capture (DAC) world\u00adwide.<\/p>\n

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In direct air capture tech\u00adnology, fans draw ambient air through a filter to which catches the CO2<\/sub>. As soon as the filter is full, the green\u00adhouse gas is removed from the filter mate\u00adrial at 100 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In addi\u00adtion, the system is supplied directly with heat energy from the ground by the geot\u00adhermal power plant from Hell\u00adishei\u00f0i. \u201cWe have a climate-friendly energy source on site,\u201d explains Nathalie Casas, Head of R&D at Clime\u00adworks. \u201cThis enables us to supply the fans with clean power and use the geot\u00adhermal heat directly to release the CO2<\/sub> from the filter mate\u00adrial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Adapted to rugged nature<\/span><\/h2>\n

Thanks to geot\u00adhermal energy, Iceland is an ideal loca\u00adtion for the Orca, were it not for the change\u00adable weather and the sulfurous air on the volcanic island. This is why Clime\u00adworks relies on partic\u00adu\u00adlarly weather-resis\u00adtant compo\u00adnents, robust axial fans from ebm-papst and Amin filter mate\u00adrial in its system. \u201cThis mate\u00adrial binds CO2<\/sub> very well, espe\u00adcially in cold and humid weather,\u201d explains Casas. In addi\u00adtion, the company has not only adapted its system to the diffi\u00adcult envi\u00adron\u00admental condi\u00adtions from a tech\u00adnology perspec\u00adtive. Orca also fits into Iceland\u2019s rugged land\u00adscape with its earth-colored facade.<\/span><\/p>\n

With its facade, the \u201cOrca\u201d DAC system fits into the Icelandic land\u00adscape. \u00a92022, Clime\u00adworks<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

In addi\u00adtion to its wood optics, the CO2 <\/sub>intake also impresses with its perfor\u00admance. After all, twelve axial fans each work in eight containers in the Orca. Clime\u00adworks reduced the amount of steel installed in the container and increased the filter surface. As a result, Orca can absorb more carbon dioxide in the same time as its prede\u00adcessor \u201cCapri\u00adcorn\u201d in Hinwil, Switzer\u00adland<\/a> \u2013 around 500 tons per container per year. In addi\u00adtion, a container is no longer made up of many indi\u00advidual filter modules with unused spaces but is now a module in itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the air to the ground<\/span><\/h2>\n

More fans and more filter mate\u00adrial make Orca the most effi\u00adcient CO2<\/sub> suction unit in the world. \u00a92022, Clime\u00adworks<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

But what actu\u00adally happens with the filtered carbon dioxide? It is pressed back into the floor and stored there. To do this, Clime\u00adworks uses the geot\u00adhermal circuit of Hellishei\u00f0i\u2019s power plant, which conveys hot deep water from the ground to generate elec\u00adtricity and heat and then feeds the water back into the ground. In the final step, Clime\u00adworks feeds the CO2<\/sub> filtered by Orca into the water. As a result, it gets around 800 to 2,000 meters deep into the ground, where it crys\u00adtal\u00adlizes under the high pres\u00adsure and is deposited.<\/p>\n

There\u00adfore, Orca completely devours CO2<\/sub>. But when it comes to Clime\u00adworks, the system is just another step among many in the fight against climate change, because filtering just one percent of global CO2 <\/sub>emis\u00adsions per year would require 87,000 more DAC systems like Orca. That is why, the whale will soon not be the only one hunting CO2<\/sub>. Clime\u00adworks is already plan\u00adning the next systems. One of them is set to go into oper\u00ada\u00adtion at the end of 2023, also in Iceland, and will be ten times as large as Orca. Further systems are set to follow by 2028, which may even be a hundred times larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Orcas slide elegantly through the seas, always looking for prey. No sooner have they found their victim than they have struck them power\u00adfully. But what do killer whales, also called orcas, have to do with improving air? In Island, \u201corca\u201d stands for power, strength and energy. All of this also applies to the latest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans","category-refrigeration-ventilation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16104,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions\/16104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mag.ebmpapst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}