{"674381":{"#nid":"674381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Approach Could Make Reusing Captured Carbon Far Cheaper, Less Energy-Intensive","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEngineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir approach dramatically reduces the cost and energy required for these direct air capture (DAC) systems, helping improve the economics of a process the researchers said will be critical to addressing climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe key is a new kind of catalyst and electrochemical reactor design that can be easily integrated into existing DAC systems to produce useful carbon monoxide (CO) gas. It\u2019s one of the most efficient such design ever described in scientific literature, according to lead researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hatzell\u0022\u003EMarta Hatzell\u003C\/a\u003E and her team. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D4EE00048J\u0022\u003EThey published details April 16 in \u003Cem\u003EEnergy and Environmental Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a top journal for energy-related research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/new-approach-could-make-reusing-captured-carbon-far-cheaper-less-energy-intensive\u0022\u003EGet the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team led by Marta Hatzell designed a new electrochemical reactor to seamlessly integrate into direct air capture systems and turn CO2 into useful raw materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team led by Marta Hatzell designed a new electrochemical reactor to seamlessly integrate into direct air capture systems and turn CO2 into useful raw materials."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2024-04-25 14:49:53","changed_gmt":"2024-04-25 14:52:22","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673849":{"id":"673849","type":"image","title":"Hatzell-DAC-electrochem-reactor-Hakhyeon-Song-Carlos-Fernandez-Po-Wei-Huang-0529-t.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA new electrochemical reactor design developed with Marta Hatzell by postdoctoral scholar Hakhyeon Song (middle) and Ph.D. students Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez and Po-Wei Huang (seated) converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material. Their approach is cheaper and simpler while requiring less energy, making it a promising tool to improve the economics of direct air capture systems. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1714056606","gmt_created":"2024-04-25 14:50:06","changed":"1714056606","gmt_changed":"2024-04-25 14:50:06","alt":"Three men in lab coats working at a bench on an experimental setup with tubes, vials, and pumps.","file":{"fid":"257298","name":"Hatzell-DAC-electrochem-reactor-Hakhyeon-Song-Carlos-Fernandez-Po-Wei-Huang-0529-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/25\/Hatzell-DAC-electrochem-reactor-Hakhyeon-Song-Carlos-Fernandez-Po-Wei-Huang-0529-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/25\/Hatzell-DAC-electrochem-reactor-Hakhyeon-Song-Carlos-Fernandez-Po-Wei-Huang-0529-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2626977,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/25\/Hatzell-DAC-electrochem-reactor-Hakhyeon-Song-Carlos-Fernandez-Po-Wei-Huang-0529-t.jpg?itok=LL3OkLlC"}}},"media_ids":["673849"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"177764","name":"direct air caputre"},{"id":"179792","name":"Marta Hatzell"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"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":""}}}