Beatrix Bos

MONTRÉAL and EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS (February 14, 2024) – Deep Sky, a Montreal-based gigaton-scale carbon removal project developer, and Carbyon, a Netherlands-based DAC company, have partnered to install carbon removal technology in Canada. As part of its partnership with Deep Sky, Carbyon will deliver and install two Air Processing Units (APUs), each with the capacity to remove 50 tons of CO₂ per year.

As the world's first gigaton-scale carbon removal company, Deep Sky will operate Carbyon’s APU in its Labs innovation facility. The system will be installed in Québec in 2024, leveraging the region's vast renewable hydroelectric energy reserves.

Building upon decades of semiconductor technology developments, Carbyon uses a rigorously different approach compared to competing technologies: a fast swing process via a modular machine that contains a proprietary sorbent material, modified to rapidly and efficiently capture CO₂ out of air.  Fast swing simply means ​​ultra-short CO₂ adsorption and desorption cycles. While conventional materials need hours to capture CO₂ from air, Carbyon’s process takes only a few minutes. This fast swing process is the key to lowering the energy consumption and enabling massive scaling of low-cost machines. The team’s ultimate goal is to deliver a cost of below €100 per ton of CO₂ –  significantly lower than current rates.

Once in operation, the partners will monitor the performance of the APU at Deep Sky Labs. Data will be collected on the performance of the unit in terms of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), energy consumption, and more. Together, the partners aim to validate the technology for commercial deployment in Canada as part of Deep Sky's mission to develop Canada into a world-leading hub for carbon removal. 

“One of the many criteria that makes Carbyon stand out is the affordability and small footprint of its Air Processing Units,” said Damien Steel, Deep Sky CEO. “Its ultra-fast sorbent process increases CO₂ capacity, decreases cost and energy consumption, ultimately producing a smaller unit which can be more easily transported and takes up less space to deploy. As a project developer sourcing units from around the world to produce the highest quality carbon credits for our customers, Carbyon was a natural choice.”

“From the high-tech region of Eindhoven, we’re thrilled to share our technology on a global stage at Deep Sky Labs,” said Hans De Neve, Carbyon Founder and CEO. “Carbyon exists to have a positive impact on the planet, and this partnership brings us one step closer to achieving our mission.”

Together, Deep Sky and Carbyon are committed to developing and deploying cutting-edge carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. High-quality CDR is essential for achieving net zero emissions goals and mitigating the impacts of climate change. 

Powered by renewable energy, Deep Sky's facilities are strategically located in Québec, a region with an abundance of hydroelectric power, immense wind power potential and a vast territory with the rich geological makeup required for carbon capture.

About Deep Sky:

Montreal-based Deep Sky is the world’s first gigaton-scale carbon removal company, aiming to remove billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere and permanently storing it underground. As a project developer, Deep Sky brings together the most promising direct air and ocean carbon capture companies under one roof to bring the largest supply of high-quality carbon credits to the market and commercialize carbon removal and storage solutions like never before. With $75M in funding, Deep Sky is backed by world-class investors including Investissement Québec, Brightspark Ventures, Whitecap Venture Partners, OMERS Ventures, BDC Climate Fund, and more. For more information, visit deepskyclimate.com.

For more information and inquiries, please contact

Brooks Wallace
brooks@deepskyclimate.com

Beatrix Bos
media@carbyon.com

Eindhoven, the Netherlands (November 28, 2023) – Dutch Direct Air Capture (DAC) company Carbyon has successfully proven that their unique fast-swing process is able to capture CO₂ using less than 2,500 kWh/ton. Carbyon was the world’s first to drastically reduce the CAPEX costs of DAC equipment using their fast-swing process. The company has now found the missing piece to also sufficiently lower the energy consumption, making this breakthrough a giant leap towards a cost-effective DAC technology below $100/ton.

In its pursuit for a low-cost DAC solution, Carbyon invented an ultra-fast CO2 capturing material. Where conventional materials need hours to capture CO₂ from air, Carbyon’s can do the same in only a few minutes. In this way, each kilogram of their material captures up to 5 ton of CO2 annually. This allows for compact DAC machine design, resulting in a CAPEX cost below $50/ton. Initially the fast-swing process suffered from collateral water adsorption, introducing an energy penalty. The recent breakthrough discovery massively reduces water uptake, resulting in an energy demand below 2,500 kWh/ton, while preserving their CAPEX benefits.

Carbyon is the first Direct Air Capture company to merge low CAPEX with low energy demand, thanks to their unique fast-swing process.

In light of the COP28, starting in Dubai this week, breakthroughs like these show that Direct Air Capture is becoming a mature solution that can help to meet our climate targets. To limit global warming to 2°C, the IPCC scenarios show that besides the necessary emission reductions, also vast amounts of CO₂ need to be removed from the atmosphere. Direct Air Capture is marked as one of the important technologies that can enable fast and durable CO₂ removal.

“Our relentless stare-down with Mother Nature’s laws of physics finally gave us the insights into how to solve this puzzle. This is a major team achievement, 2.500 kWh/ton is a challenging milestone for any DAC technology. Demonstrating this with an all-electric, low-CAPEX technology puts Carbyon in pole position to reach the $100/ton target that the market is looking for. Nothing can stop us now!” – Hans de Neve, founder and CEO of Carbyon

Carbyon’s breakthrough led to fundamental understanding of working principles empowering them in their mission to even further reduce the technology’s energy demand. The company is rapidly growing and is currently developing their first engineering-scale machine, that will be validated in the field together with pilot partners. So far, the company has raised $10M and is currently raising a Series A round to finance upcoming activities.

For more information and inquiries, please contact

Beatrix Bos
media@carbyon.com.

Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.