Improving the Efficiency of Direct Air Carbon Capture

AirMyne Engineering, 2024–25

Liaison(s): Cyndia Cao, Derek Popple
Advisor(s): Whitney Fowler, Nancy Lape
Students(s): Katrina Nelson (TL-S), Rebecca Preis (TL-F), Ka’imi Duncklee, Tia Tounesi, Abdullah Fattahi (S), Gaven Gesse (F), Charlie Lambert (F), Avery Smith (S)

AirMyne is a Berkeley, California, startup focused on decarbonization through direct air capture technology and uses safer and cheaper chemicals that can be scaled more rapidly than their competitors. The Clinic team aimed to improve their separation subsystem by experimentally characterizing the effects of modifications in operating parameters on the efficacy of the separation of reactants and products. Optimizing this subsystem improves the energy efficiency of the other unit operations and helps to make carbon capture practical and scalable.