Climeworks’ Orca plant is the world’s largest facility dedicated to direct air capture and CO₂ storage and has begun operations in Iceland. This plant stands out for its size and design, with great capacity to operate entirely with renewable energy.
The Orca Plant by Climeworks
It is located near the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, to minimize its environmental footprint , using carbon collecting units. of air stacked on concrete bases. This modular design allows the plant to be easily implemented in other locations around the world, facilitating its expansion and distribution in future regions.
The Orca plant can capture up to 4,000 metric tons of CO₂ annually, using geothermal energy supplied by ON Power, to power its extraction technology. Once captured, the CO₂ is safely transported and stored by Carbfix , who mineralizes it using Iceland’s basaltic rock formations, ensuring permanent carbon storage.
Orca is the largest CO₂ capture plant on the planet. Source: Climeworks.
According to Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald, co-founders of Climeworks, Orca is a key example of how technology can be scaled to meet the challenges of climate change. With projects like this, Climeworks hopes to significantly reduce the cost of carbon capture and increase its operating capacity, paving the way for future facilities that can capture greater amounts of CO₂.
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