DOE to award up to $24M to advance direct air carbon capture technology
2. (DE-FOA-0002481)
2 from ambient air, this FOA also considers the removal of CO
2 from partially concentrated air (e.g., building HVAC exhaust) and from natural fluids (e.g., the ocean and surface waters) that received their CO
2 directly from ambient air.
DOE is seeking innovative fundamental research in three topical areas:
Novel Energy Transfer Mechanisms for Regeneration of and Mass Transport in Direct Air Capture Systems;
Understanding Temporal Changes That Occur during Separations; and
Science-Driven Synthesis and Assembly of Innovative Materials for Direct Air Capture.
Energy Transfer Mechanisms. Most contemporary DAC approaches utilize energy poorly, as evident by second-law efficiencies for CO