Carbon capture companies capture the carbon dioxide produced during power generation and industrial processes to reduce CO2 emissions. The carbon captured is injected into rock formations deep underground, a process called “geological or geologic storage of CO2.”

However, when captured carbon dioxide is utilized in manufacturing and other processes, it represents CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage).

The concept of cabron capture was in place much before the advent of advanced carbon removal technology. In a process known as “enhanced oil recovery,” captured CO2 was piped from the point of source to the oil fields to boost oil production.

Commonly used carbon capture technologies include pre-combustion carbon capture, post-combustion carbon capture, and oxy-fuel combustion systems.

Keep reading to learn more about the industry-leading carbon capture companies.

Carbfix

Carbfix started out as a research project in 2006 and was formalized by the following four founding partners in 2007:

• Reykjavik Energy

• The University of Iceland

• CNRS in Toulouse (France)

• The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Established as a subsidiary of Reykjavik Energy in late 2019, Carbfix began operations as a separate entity in 2020.

Over the years, Carbfix transformed into world's first CO? mineral storage operator from an idea to a cost-effective, fully operational, and an environmentally benign industrial process to capture of CO2 and H2S from emission sources and store permanently as rock in the subsurface.

Contrary to the common view of CO2 immobilization, it took less than two years for CO2 (over 95%) injected into Iceland’s Carbfix site to mineralize to carbonate minerals.

Carbfix plans to play a key role in tackling the climate crisis by reaching one billion tons of permanently stored CO2.

On 25th April 2024, Deep Sky, a Montréal-based carbon removal project developer, and Carbfix partnered to explore CO? mineral storage in Canada. The pre-feasibility study was conducted to assess Quebec's potential reservoirs for CO? mineral storage in June this year, the study results are yet to be disclosed.

Carbon Clean

Headquartered in London, Carbon Clean has offices in India, Spain, and the United States. The company is credited with the removal of over 1.7 million metric tons of carbon from 49 facilities globally (2022).

Carbon Clean’s CCUS technologies can help industries capture over 90% of CO2. As the process works within existing industrial operations, it causes minimal disruption and provides maximum cost-effectiveness.

In addition, the company’s energy-efficient CDRMax™ process can achieve 90%+ capture rates—thereby delivering industrial quality CO2 for re-use or sequestration.

On 27th November 2024, Celeros Flow Technology (Celeros FT) and Carbon Clean entered a partnership agreement to deploy their carbon capture technology in hard-to-able industries. Under this agreement, both companies will develop industrial-scale carbon capture technologies, and Celeros Flow will provide engineering and fabrication services under htis agreement.

Carbon Engineering

Carbon Engineering (CE) is a globally recognized climate solutions company, which helps governments and organizations achieve critical net zero targets by delivering solutions for low carbon-intensity products and permanent carbon removal.

Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology is designed to continuously capture CO2 from atmospheric air and deliver it as a purified, compressed gas for use or storage. The process extracts CO2 much faster with a smaller land footprint.

The company uses four major pieces of equipment (air contactor, pellet reactor, calciner, and slaker) to achieve a megaton scale with improved cost estimations and low scale-up risk.

CarbonBuilt

CarbonBuilt offers the following solutions for:

• Concrete buyers (Increase profits with carbon credits revenue and lower costs of raw materials)

• Building industry (Drive outstanding LEED scores with CMUs that meet existing specs without a green premium)

• Carbon credit buyers (Access high-quality carbon credits, while accelerating concrete’s decarbonization)

Furthermore, CarbonBuilt’s Carbon XPRIZE-winning technology reduces concrete’s embodied carbon by 70% to over 100%—changing the way concrete has been responsible for almost 10% of global carbon emissions.

On 24th September 2024, CarbonBuilt partnered with Meta to scale its Reversa® binder technology for ultra-low-carbon concrete production. The binde will replace Portland cement and permanently store CO?, reducing emissions by up to 70% without increasing costs. 

CarbonFree

CarbonFree is a global carbon capture company with patented technologies that help in capturing CO2 and mineralizing emissions for making commercial, carbon-negative chemicals.

SKYCYCLE™: CarbonFree’s second-generation, ultra-low penalty technology provides a complete CCUS solution and is helpful in solving the high costs of transport and storage infrastructure, with a carbon-negative impact.

SKYMINE®: CarbonFree’s SkyMine is the world’s first and largest industrial-scale carbon mineralization facility capable of capturing up to 50,000 metric tons of CO2 annually from cement flue gas. After capturing CO2, it is transformed into industrial-grade sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for use in household cleaning and as a microwave and refrigerator deodorizer.

On 18th November 2024, CarbonFree announced Endurocal™ - World’s first zero-carbon mineral that replace the traditional use of calcium carbonate in industries like plastics, paints, and paper. This is inline with recently annohnced US Steel project to deploy SkyCycle technology at its Gary Works facility and capture about 50,000 tons of CO? annually from the time of operation in 2027.

Climeworks

Climeworks was founded as a spin-off from ETH Zurich. Climeworks provides a measurable and scalable carbon removal service in collaboration with high-quality CO2 storage. In the fight against climate change, the company is making a significant impact with the use of the “direct air capture” technology to remove excess CO2 from the air.

In 2021, Climeworks launched Orca—the world’s first large-scale carbon dioxide removal plant in Iceland. The direct air capture and storage plant consists of eight collector containers, each with an annual capture capacity of 500 tons.

Additionally, the company provides carbon removal services for individuals, enterprises, and SMEs.

On 30th January 2024, Climeworks and Svante signed a collaboration agreement to implement direct air capture (DAC) technology. Under this agreement, Svante will supply advanced contactor blocks for three major Climeworks projects in the U.S. Recently, Svante has been awarded USD 600 million by DOE funding to support these carbon capture projects in the U.S. 

Capsol Technologies

CO2 Capsol AS (CO2 Capsol) is now known as Capsol Technologies. Capsol Technologies provides carbon capture solutions to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities.

CO2 Capsol’s offerings include:

Capsol EoP™: A flexible End-of-Pipe (EoP) carbon capture solution is a full capture solution for CO2-emitting industries. It is cost competitive, environmentally friendly, and safe with the following key features:

• 90% capture rate

• A smaller footprint

• Flexible configuration

• High CO2 purity

• Stand-alone unit

Capsol EoP can be used in various plants (cement, biomass, and waste-to-energy) and optimized for maximum district heating or minimum electricity consumption.

CapsolGT®: A carbon capture gas turbine which generates additional electricity while capturing 95%+ CO2 from exhaust gases of open cycle gas turbines. In addition, it uses the safe HPC (Hot Potassium Carbonate) solvent to capture CO2.

CapsolGT introduces carbon capture as a revenue source and replaces the traditional steam cycle. As a standalone unit, it is ideal for remote locations.

CapsolGo®: A carbon capture demonstration unit with an all-inclusive package comprising transport, installation, de-installation, operation, deployment, and testing by an independent party.

On 2nd October 2024, Capsol Technologies announced it has been awarded the feasibility study contract to assess the implementation of its CapsolEoP (End-of-Pipe) technology at a cement plant by a German cement producer. It aims to capture about 400,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

LanzaTech

LanzaTech has invented a new technology to use biology for creating a post-pollution future. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology involves bacteria converting pollution into chemicals and fuels. In this process, captured carbon emissions are fed into bioreactors to produce valuable raw material commodities.

LanzaTech’s patented process has made it possible for bacteria to ferment pollution into ethanol, which is subsequently used to make other products.

For example, the Swiss retailer Migros used it to make plastic bottles for household cleaners and smoothies. Similarly, a Swiss sports brand On has started to use LanzaTech’s ethylene to make the foam (PVA) found in running shoes.

On 31st October 2024, LanazTech and Eramet announced plans for an integrated CCUS project in Norway. This first-of-its-kind initiative will capture and reuse CO? emissions from Eramet's smelting operations. The captured CO? will be used to produce ethanol and other chemicals. This facility is expected to be operational by 2028.

SLB Capturi

Aker Carbon Capture (previously a division of Aker Solutions) was acquired by SLB (formerly Schlumberger) on March 27th, 2024. Aker Carbon Capture, in a joint venture with SLB is now known as SLB Capturi. It is a pure-play carbon capture company whose proprietary carbon capture technology offers an environmentally friendly solution to remove carbon dioxide emissions. The company serves blue hydrogen, cement, bio and waste-to-energy, and gas-to-power segments, and other industries.

Aker Carbon Capture’s Advanced Carbon Capture™ technology has been applied onshore across various industries. The company’s products and solutions cover mid-range and large-scale emitters.

Aker Carbon Capture’s offerings include:

• Just Catch™ (a cost-efficient, modular carbon capture plant)

• Just Catch Offshore™ (reduces emissions from offshore gas turbines)

• Big Catch™ (medium- and large-scale industrial carbon capture plants)

• Carbon Capture as a Service (full value chain offering for reducing emissions by CCS)

• Just Test (a Mobile Test Unit (MTU) that serves as a complete carbon capture plant)

On 1st August 2024, SLB and Aker Carbon Capture's joint venture was awarded a FEED contract (Front End Engineering and Design) to remove 800,000 tonnes of CO2 annually at the U.S. Gulf Coast pulp and paper mill. CO280 Solutions awarded it, and the joint venture will use the modular Just Catch™ technology.

Svante

Svante is a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider that makes machines and filters to capture and remove CO2 from the air and industrial emissions. Later, the captured CO2 is concentrated to pipeline grade purity and transported and stored underground or used to make other products.

Svante’s commercial-scale rotary adsorption machines (RAMs) are capable of capturing thousands of tons of CO2 emissions daily. Moreover, the company’s filters can be used to capture CO2 from the air in a process called “Direct Air Capture (DAC).”

The company has developed an environmentally friendly solid sorbent carbon capture technology, which is easy to manage, scalable, and adaptable across industries.

In addition, Svante’s patented architecture helps in achieving net zero targets by capturing CO2 from industrial flue gas streams.

Svante’s solutions include:

• URSA 1000 (captures approximately 500 tons of CO2 per day)

• URSA 2000 (captures approximately 2,000 tons of CO2 per day)

On 27th November 2024, Svante secured funding from Inbc, a Province of British Columbia to develop a 141,000-square-foot facility in Burnaby, BC, Canada. Once operational this plant will produce nanoengineered filters that can capture about 10 million tons of CO2 annually.

Wrapping Up

Capturing CO2 is essential for minimizing the carbon footprint and reaching mandated emission reduction targets (including goals set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions).

Furthermore, low-carbon power generation systems and renewable energy sources with CCS can contribute significantly to the decarbonization of the energy sector.

Carbon capture companies have been undertaking extensive research for high-quality carbon removal including the development and commercialization of affordable and scalable CCS technologies.

They have been working relentlessly to develop, test, optimize and invest in carbon capture solutions, such as CCS and CCUS solutions that are easy to use and flexible across industry applications.

For example, the Global Thermostat Solution features patented technology capable of selectively trapping CO2 and concentrating it for collection, use, or storage.

Other carbon capture projects and programs are also playing a crucial role in capturing carbon dioxide and putting to productive use or storing for later use.

For instance, the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) U.S. climate program helps in improving best practices and deploying carbon capture technologies—supporting progress toward net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Another example is the megaproject in Port Arthur, Texas, that involved carbon capture on a massive scale using Air Products’ retrofit technology.

The Global Project Tracker maintains an extensive, up-to-date Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) database of all CCUS facilities and projects, globally.

Across the world, co2 capture technology companies are leading the transition to a carbon-negative future with proven and safe CO2 capture technologies.

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