Airhive is a direct air capture company, based in London and founded in 2022. This talk will discuss the deployment of Airhive’s Storm One commercial demonstration (1,000 tonnes per annum), one of the world's largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) facilities. Located at the Deep Sky Alpha site Alberta, Canada, the system is now under commissioning and is set for full operation with CO2 transport and storage in a nearby saline aquifer in Q1 2026.

Airhive’s DAC technology harnesses “fluidization,” an industrial process that uses gas flows to suspend solid particles in a fluid-like state. Fluidization enables faster gas-solid interface, allowing an otherwise slow-reacting mineral-based sorbent to capture CO₂ from the passing air at very high velocities and capture efficiencies. The process captures close to 100% of the CO₂ in the air that moves through the system in less than 1/10^th of a second. The result is a low cost and energy system, void of toxic substances and powered entirely by electricity.

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