Carbon Dioxide- the Superhero Molecule of the 21st Century
Why is everyone expecting CO 2 to save our planet? CO 2 , a greenhouse gas that was once considered a villain has now become an uprising superhero, a hero on whom all of us are relying upon to save us and our planet. Innovators and promoters of sustainable development, across the globe, are now trying to capture excess CO 2 and turn it into meat , alcohol, concrete, fuel, plastics and whatnot. It seems nowadays everyone is trying to make everything out of CO 2 . How are they doing it? A lot of research organizations and companies are building their sustainable production systems around a technology, generally referred as DAC- Direct Air Capture . This relatively new technology can be used to capture CO 2 from atmosphere, diluted gasses and distributed sources of carbon via industrial processes. To keep it short and simple, this carbon capturing system consists of 3 main elements- contacting area, solvent or sorbent and regeneration module. The contacting area fa...