Audi and Krajete develop technology to remove CO2 from the air

Audi has announced that it is developing new technology with Krajete GmbH to filter CO2 from the air with the aim of reducing CO2.

The companies have developed a plant in Linz, Austria capable of removing 1,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air per year, and are working on other technologies.

The latest example of the development work of the two partners is a new plant in Austria, where we use an inorganic filter material which can contain a very high load of molecules and which is also very insensitive to the effects of humidity . Therefore, it is not necessary, or only necessary in special cases, to pre-dry the ambient air to be filtered. This increases efficiency and reduces costs. The temperature and pressure conditions for absorbing CO2 molecules and then removing them from the adsorption surface are very similar. This considerably shortens the loading and unloading cycles of the adsorber. In other words, more CO2 can be removed from the ambient air in a short time. The filtered air is released into the environment after the adsorption step. The recovered CO2 is then available in a highly concentrated form as feedstock for permanent storage or for a wide range of industrial applications. The large-scale plant near Linz, which is currently being commissioned, can filter 500 tons of CO2 per year. By the end of the year, another module will increase the plant's capacity to 1,000 tons. The electricity needed to operate the plant comes from a photovoltaic system installed on the company's premises.

You can find more details about this partnership between Audi and Krajete on the Audi website at the link below.

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