{"668077":{"#nid":"668077","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Inside-Out Heating and Ambient Wind Could Make Direct Air Capture Cheaper and More Efficient","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat started as a simple errand to deposit a check at a bank drive-through became the kind of \u201caha\u201d moment found mostly in books and movies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers had been working on an idea to simplify traditional direct air capture (DAC) systems. Their approach used ambient wind flow to draw air across a new kind of coated carbon fiber to grab CO2. That would eliminate the loud fans used in many systems. And the carbon fiber strands could be quickly heated to release the captured carbon dioxide with minimal heat loss, boosting efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut they were struggling with how to deploy these new sorbent-coated carbon fibers for maximum effect.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had to go deposit a check at the bank, and I went through the drive-through. They had the old pneumatic tubes that come down to transport documents,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/ryan-p-lively\u0022\u003ERyan Lively\u003C\/a\u003E, Thomas C. DeLoach Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThere are not many times you have a light bulb moment in your career, but I saw the tubes and I realized, we could put the fibers in something like a bank teller tube canister.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s pretty much what we did, and it worked.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/inside-out-heating-and-ambient-wind-could-make-direct-air-capture-cheaper-and-more\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChemical engineers use coated carbon fibers and eliminate steam-based heating in their simpler design, which also can be powered by wind energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chemical engineers use coated carbon fibers and eliminate steam-based heating in their simpler design, which also can be powered by wind energy."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-06-12 17:04:41","changed_gmt":"2023-06-14 18:53:13","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670971":{"id":"670971","type":"image","title":"DAC Coated Carbon Fibers Heat Measurement","body":null,"created":"1686589545","gmt_created":"2023-06-12 17:05:45","changed":"1686589545","gmt_changed":"2023-06-12 17:05:45","alt":"A thermal imaging device shows heat distribution in the carbon fibers.","file":{"fid":"253946","name":"_MG_1910(edited).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/12\/_MG_1910%28edited%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/12\/_MG_1910%28edited%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11194195,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/12\/_MG_1910%28edited%29.jpg?itok=P-wGOZsS"}}},"media_ids":["670971"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187252","name":"Direct air capture"},{"id":"187268","name":"direct air capture technology"},{"id":"136521","name":"carbon fiber"},{"id":"96231","name":"Ryan Lively"},{"id":"59931","name":"Christopher Jones"},{"id":"176639","name":"Matthew Realff"},{"id":"5834","name":"chemical and biomolecular engineering"},{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}