Equatic has unveiled plans for the world’s largest ocean-based carbon removal plant which potentially offers a twin benefit of immobilising carbon dioxide (CO2) and producing hydrogen.
The effort stems from an exclusive project with PUB (Singapore’s National Water Agency) and UCLA to remove 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide by electrolysing seawater, and create 300kg of carbon-negative hydrogen per day. When completed, the 3,650tpa CDR plant will be among the world’s largest CO2 removal facilities, removing around 100 kg of CO2 per day.
Lorenzo Corsini, Principal Advisor at Equatic, said, “This plant is the essential next step towards carbon dioxide removal at a globally relevant scale and a competitive price. We are on track to deliver a replicable, easy-to-manufacture electrochemical reactor – the beating heart of our CDR technology – that will bring removal costs below the $100 per tonne industry target well before 2030.”
The demonstration project, Equatic-1, will be commissioned in Tuas, Singapore in mid-2024. The engineering design, fabrication, and installation builds on the learnings from two pilot facilities in Los Angeles and Singapore, first operational in March 2023.
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