UK company Mission Zero Technologies (MZT) has made its international debut by launching a direct air capture (DAC) unit at the Deep Sky Alpha facility in Alberta, Canada.
For MZT, this deployment marks the third DAC plant in the company’s portfolio of projects.
Deep Sky’s landmark Alpha site will serve as a testing ground for DAC technologies from different developers, where the solutions will be observed and optimized to deliver low-cost and low-energy DAC systems.
The facility wrapped up with construction in June of this year and is expected to begin operations later this summer, with MZT’s DAC unit being one of the first systems to come online.
Once Deep Sky Alpha is fully operational, the solar-powered MZT DAC unit will be able to capture up to 250 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 per year that will then be processed by Deep Sky for safe underground storage.
MZT’s first DAC plant, developed in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, removes 50 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere on an annual basis, and the captured carbon dioxide is then used for the production of sustainable aviation fuel.
The company’s second UK-based DAC facility, created in partnership with O.C.O Technology and the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, unlocked larger carbon removal levels that reach an annual capacity of around 250 tonnes of atmospheric CO2.
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The CO2 captured via this project is fully integrated for direct use in a production process for building materials, through which O.C.O. delivers a carbon-negative limestone product.
With the deployment at Deep Sky Alpha, Mission Zero Technologies continues to diversify the end-use for the CO2 captured through its DAC systems, creating a third pathway that will serve to further de-risk the company’s carbon removal approach.
The Deep Sky Alpha MZT DAC unit will mark a six-fold increase in capture capacity compared to the company’s pilot system and a 60% reduction in cost, indicating a strong momentum that MZT intends to leverage to introduce multi-kilotonne annual CO2 recovery in the future.
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