Building Negative Emissions Technology for a Green Economy, Vinay Konuru, UG '24 and Kelvin Green, UG '24 (2279122)
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Negative emissions technologies remove emissions like CO2 from the atmosphere to reduce the impacts of climate change. These technologies are critical to meeting global net-zero goals but are currently too expensive to scale to meet the needs of climate change. Fascinated by these systems and passionate about helping drive down their costs, Kelvin and I got to work building our own pilot projects. We are currently building a tandem system that will convert CO2 from the ambient air into valuable chemical products like acetic acid using direct air capture (DAC) and microbial electrosynthesis (MES). The market for acetic acid is over $20 billion, indicating a potential pathway to the profitability of these systems as we learn how to build them more cheaply and efficiently. We hope our research will help contribute to learning in this field and inspire other students and researchers to get involved in this critical and rapidly growing area.
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