Integrating electrocatalytic carbon reduction with direct air-capture of CO2

我们的研究小组正在制造突破性的系统，将空气捕获的二氧化碳(CO2)转化为有用的产品。二氧化碳水平上升是气候变化的主要原因之一，显著减少碳排放对于避免重大经济和环境灾难至关重要。碳工程公司(Squamish，BC)正在将直接从大气中去除二氧化碳的系统商业化，规模为数吨。我们将评估通过电催化将二氧化碳还原为具有重大经济价值的燃料和材料前体来培育碳价值链的可行性。这种合作产生的技术有可能深入渗透到价值1万亿美元的二氧化碳利用市场，将CE和加拿大定位为变革性清洁技术的全球领先者。该项目使我们能够充分了解二氧化碳捕集转化一体化的技术挑战，并相应地开发我们的技术。

Our research group is manufacturing groundbreaking systems to convert air-captured carbon dioxide (CO2)into useful products. Rising CO2 levels are one of the major causes of climate change, and a significantreduction in carbon emissions is crucial to avoiding major economic and environmental catastrophe. CarbonEngineering (Squamish, BC) is commercializing systems to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere on amulti-tonne scale. We will evaluate the feasibility of propagating a carbon value chain through electrocatalyticreduction of CO2 into fuel and material precursors with great economic value. Technology resulting from thiscollaboration has the potential for deep penetration into the $1 trillion-dollar market that is CO2 utilization,positioning both CE and Canada as global leaders in transformative clean technology. This project enables usto fully understand the technical challenges of CO2 capture-conversion integration, and develop our technologyaccordingly.