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In some industries, CO2 is a byproduct of daily activities.These emissions aaccount for almost a quarter of Swiss industry's greenhouse gas emissions. Capturing this CO2 is therefore a vital challenge if we are to achieve carbon neutrality.💡 Most current capture technologies are energy-intensive and costly to implement, making them unattractive for large-scale deployment. That's where Divea, comes in, a young startup from Professor Kumar Varoon Agrawal's lab at EPFL Valais Wallis part of Switzerland Innovation Park West EPFL, supported by Fondation The Ark and Switzerland Innovation Tech for Impact.✏️Divea located at Campus Energypolis, is currently fine-tuning a graphene membrane capable of isolating CO2 from industrial streams. 🕳 How does it work? The atom-thick membrane is pierced by microscopic holes. Because CO2 molecules are smaller than those of nitrogen or oxygen, with which they are most commonly released, they can be separated. Like a sieve, so to speak. The CO2 can then be stored or converted, notably into methane.🤝 Since early summer, Divea has been testing its technology on an industrial demonstrator in Aigle (VD), in partnership with Gaznat AG.

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• Author: Switzerland Innovation Digital
• Published Date: 10/18/2024 7:12:12 AM
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In some industries, CO2 is a byproduct of daily activities.These emissions aaccount for almost a quarter of Swiss industry's greenhouse gas emissions. Capturing this CO2 is therefore a vital challenge if we are to achieve carbon neutrality.

💡 Most current capture technologies are energy-intensive and costly to implement, making them unattractive for large-scale deployment. That's where Divea, comes in, a young startup from Professor Kumar Varoon Agrawal's lab at EPFL Valais Wallis part of Switzerland Innovation Park West EPFL, supported by Fondation The Ark and Switzerland Innovation Tech for Impact.

✏️Divea located at Campus Energypolis, is currently fine-tuning a graphene membrane capable of isolating CO2 from industrial streams.

🕳 How does it work? The atom-thick membrane is pierced by microscopic holes. Because CO2 molecules are smaller than those of nitrogen or oxygen, with which they are most commonly released, they can be separated. Like a sieve, so to speak. The CO2 can then be stored or converted, notably into methane.

🤝 Since early summer, Divea has been testing its technology on an industrial demonstrator in Aigle (VD), in partnership with Gaznat AG.