CNCE facilities
The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions facilities offer a variety of services led by a team with extensive research and field experience. Carbon Dioxide Removal Testbed enables the center to be one of a few research facilities worldwide with a comprehensive understanding of carbon capture and storage, climate policy, certification, sorbent development, supply chain and long-range planning experience for climate change mitigation.
The center houses several custom-made, state-of-the-art sorbent characterization systems that accommodate experimentation ranging in scale from milligrams to kilograms. This includes a methodology to quickly screen performance characterization of multiple sorbents for carbon capture in a short time, to enable sorbent scale up from mg to kg for a scale-up of sorbents from mg to kg. These methodologies evaluate essential environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, wind velocities) that affect sorbent performance.
The center has successfully worked with both private and public sectors on sorbent characterization and synthesis since its formation in 2014. One of these successes was conducted in partnership with Carbon Collect LLC, and involved the scale-up of a sorbent from mg to hundreds of kg. It also instituted a program that placed a MechanicalTreeTM prototype on ASU’s Tempe campus for technology testing and evaluation.
The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions facilities can be divided into distinct categories related to carbon removal:
- Sorbent capacity, kinetics characterization and scale-up from mg to kg.
- Outdoor test pad experiments for carbon capture and/or storage (technology validation studies).
- Data interpretation and presentation based on ASU or client research.
- Technical results interpretation, analysis and application recommendations.
- Sorbent synthesis and form factors for better performance.
- Feasibility studies for climate mitigation applications.
- Certification of CO2 removal services, advice, structural applications and proof of concept.
- Removal certification, 3rd party analysis and recommendations.
- Mathematical modeling.
- Industrial carbon management analysis, including recommendations for alternative applications and approaches.
- Analysis of carbon storage including feasibility, site preferences and alternative considerations.
- Conceptual analysis services that may include recommendations for new technologies or applications.
Facilities bench-scale systems
If you are interested in collaborating with CNCE on developing new sorbents, evaluating DAC sorbent materials, form factors, bench and pilot scale DAC systems or other opportunities, please fill our our contact form and a member of our team will get back to you shortly.