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20220317 - Mechanical Tree Leaves - Tempe

Image fully released. Model release on file in Media Relations & Strategic Communications.

Third-year civil engineering student Erick Limon Minjarez uses a heat sealer to close a small porous bag with 60.3 grams of ion-exchange resin in the Biodesign Institute building C, Thursday, March 17, 2022. The pack will become part of the 14,400 bags making up the ‘leaves’ in the carbon-capture prototype mechanical tree. Carbon dioxide molecules will attach to the resin through chemisorption then release under pressurized steam. The completed carbon-capture prototype is based on the research of Klaus Lackner, an engineering professor and director of the ASU Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, and marketed by Carbon Collect Inc., based in Dublin. Lackner developed the proprietary technology for the mechanical tree to remove carbon dioxide from passing air to combat global warming at scale. It acts like a tree that is thousands of times more efficient at removing CO2. The 30-foot tall “mechanical trees,” with 150 disks, each with 16 bags in six segments, allow the captured gas to be sequestered or sold for reuse in various applications, such as synthetic fuels, enhanced oil recovery, food, beverage and agriculture industries. Photo by Charlie Leight/Arizona State University

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20220317 Mechanical Tree Leaves
20220317 - Mechanical Tree Leaves - Tempe<br /> <br /> Image fully released. Model release on file in Media Relations & Strategic Communications.<br /> <br /> Third-year civil engineering student Erick Limon Minjarez uses a heat sealer to close a small porous bag with 60.3 grams of ion-exchange resin in the Biodesign Institute building C, Thursday, March 17, 2022. The pack will become part of the 14,400 bags making up the ‘leaves’ in the carbon-capture prototype mechanical tree. Carbon dioxide molecules will attach to the resin through chemisorption then release under pressurized steam. The completed carbon-capture prototype is based on the research of Klaus Lackner, an engineering professor and director of the ASU Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, and marketed by Carbon Collect Inc., based in Dublin. Lackner developed the proprietary technology for the mechanical tree to remove carbon dioxide from passing air to combat global warming at scale. It acts like a tree that is thousands of times more efficient at removing CO2. The 30-foot tall “mechanical trees,” with 150 disks, each with 16 bags in six segments, allow the captured gas to be sequestered or sold for reuse in various applications, such as synthetic fuels, enhanced oil recovery, food, beverage and agriculture industries. Photo by Charlie Leight/Arizona State University