Apley: Direct air capture must dump CO2 if purity standards fail
Andreas Apley · DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale · Oct 3, 2024 · at 13:33
Climeworks CFO Andreas Apley explains industrial realities discovered during 24/7 commercial operations at the Orca direct air capture plant in Iceland.
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“The sensitivity of the sequestration on the purity of the CO two and your ability to deliver that purity, 24, seven with all the things that happen in this type of production environment, you have to deliver really, really pure CO two doesn't really matter on the sequestration method, but it needs to be super pure. And if you don't have downstream a process to deal To upgrade that purity, to deal with a high range of fluctuations, then you might need to dump the CO two that you've already captured because it doesn't fulfill the quality requirements.”
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