A DAC demonstration plant with a capacity of around 100 tons of carbon dioxide per year is in operation at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart as part of the “DAC-BW” project. Financed through the HyGenLab project, the DAC unit serves both as a research facility and a live case study for the enterprises involved in the industry-wide discussion.

This amounts to an opportunity for enterprises from Baden-Württemberg to evaluate their existing product portfolio in the context of DAC and to tap into a new and rapidly growing market. If the basic conditions permit, their own process parts and electrical components (e.g. pumps, fans, heat exchangers, gas processing and gas analysis units) can also be incorporated in the demonstration system and validated there under real operating conditions. This is a chance for the enterprises to test their own components in an application environment, gain publicity for them and ultimately include them in their product portfolio.

It is essential – in view of the CO2 markets expected in the future and the DAC technologies required for this marketplace – to reach the point of industrial viability, and to arrive at the scale relevant to the energy industry in particular (plants with production capacities of several tons of CO₂ per hour). With the help of the technology demonstration system and on the basis of the upskilling offers for industry, the plan is to run workshops and thereby to establish a foundation for the successful market ramp-up with technologies from Baden-Württemberg.