"Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), in collaboration with the Office of Nuclear Energy and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Geothermal Technology Office, issued a notice of intent (NOI) for a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) expected to support front-end engineering design (FEED) studies of direct air capture (DAC) combined with dedicated storage and coupled to existing low-carbon energy."

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Rinberg, Anatoly; Bergman, Andrew Michael; Schrag, Daniel P.; Aziz, Michael J. (2021): Alkalinity Concentration Swing for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide. In Chemsuschem. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202100786.

"We describe a new process — the Alkalinity Concentration Swing (ACS) — for direct air capture of carbon dioxide driven by concentrating an alkaline solution that has been exposed to the atmosphere and loaded with dissolved inorganic carbon."

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Deadline: 17. August 2021

"[W]e are looking to expand our partnership with organizations and people who are working on CDR solutions with an eye towards advancing racial, environmental, and climate justice in communities across the U.S. and globally."

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"The global engineering leader will develop an initial engineering design of a DAC system that aims to capture 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the atmosphere per year – currently, no existing DAC system has this level of capacity."

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