The Technology
As the world is confronting a climate emergency, the need to capture excess carbon from the atmosphere becomes urgent. Carboncapture is required to reach the goal of staying within 2 degrees Celsius of warming from pre-industrial days. Without being able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere cost of limiting global warming skyrockets. The oceans have the greatest carbon capturing capacity. However, their ability to capture additional carbon is coming to its limit and even reversing, releasing carbon dioxide into the ocean because the water is acidifying limiting carbon capturing capacity, while also adversely affectingaquatic life. Wejpresent scientific and technological innovations for a set of processes -each with their own unique merit -but combined leading to a groundbreaking two-in-one water treatment/carbon capture process. The process offers high scaling potential; capable of capturing and storing hundreds of gigatons of CO2 (the amount forecasted to be required to stop global warming), while transforming an existing major industrial process (water treatment) to be sustainable and cost-effective.A new process, and novel technology to capture carbon while treating different sources of water is presented. The method can efficiently process sea water, brine, wastewater and drinking water to remove scale, and biological hazards.
Advantages
- Robust technology that can be applied at different scales, and in different use cases
- Low energy requirement due to very high efficiency
- Low capital requirement due to low material use, and low material scarcity
- Allows treatment of any type of water -fresh, sea water, brine and waste water
- Removal of biofouling, scalants, and reducing corrosion
Applications and Opportunities
- Carbon capture through electrochemical precipitation
- Descaling (treatment) of water
- Various electrochemical desalination procedures
- Selectively increasing the pH of water for purposes listed above
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