Climeworks kept hardware design in-house while EPC built the facility
Doug Chan · Building the world’s biggest DAC facility · Jan 8, 2025 · at 12:25
Doug Chan, COO of Climeworks, explains how the direct air capture company allocated internal engineering responsibilities versus external contractor roles for the Mammoth facility in Iceland.
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“So what we did keep in-house was the design of the core hardware, so those collector units that you see, and then also for the process engineering nerds out there, so the core heat and material balance, the process flow diagram, and the process instrumentation diagram, so the process engineering that supports the hardware as well, or you could even say the hardware supports the process engineering, because ultimately what we are as a, Our company's core technology is we're a process technology company that also has this special hardware. So, the hardware design we kept in-house, we worked with a few manufacturers to manufacture the collector containers, and then we worked with an EPC to then take our process design and turn that into a real facility.”
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