Innovative direct air capture technology combines CO2 with green hydrogen to make methanol for e-fuels
Porsche and partners are on track with the production of e-fuel at the Haru Oni demonstration plant in Chile. The next step is to develop the direct air capture technology from the atmosphere to make production as sustainable as possible. DAC captures CO2 from the atmosphere to combine with green hydrogen made at the plant using electrolysis powered by wind-generated energy.
The first stage in extracting CO2 from the atmosphere is to clean the air to remove large particles of dirt, before passing it through a filter material, which traps the CO2. Once that’s done, the CO2 is extracted by heating the material, leaving just water as a by-product. Electricity for the entire process is produced by a 3.4GW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine.
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