DACMA, a direct air capture (DAC) equipment manufacturer, has opened the DACMA Competence Center at the Hamburg Blue Hub, Port of Hamburg, Germany, in partnership with the eFUEL GROUP. The opening was officially launched at the Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Technology World Expo.
At the DACMA Competence Center, modular DAC systems will be tested under real-world industrial conditions, with the aim to investigate technical components and materials, and analyse operational processes and energy and material flows. Further to this Center, DACMA is working with project developer Deep Sky to develop DAC technology in Canada, including a DACMA facility with a planned capture capacity of 600 tonnes of CO2 annually.
Alexander Backs, CO-CEO of DACMA GmbH, said: “How the technology performs in ongoing operation is crucial for the further development of our plants. The DACMA Competence Center enables us to feed insights from testing directly back into development. This allows us to base technical decisions on a broader data set.”
Dr Melanie Leonhard, Senator for Economic Affairs, Labor, and Innovation, commented: “In Hamburg, we are developing new technologies and bringing them into industrial practice. The DACMA Competence Center creates new opportunities for this. Here, companies and research institutions can work together to explore how CO2 from the ambient air can be used as a raw material for industry. This also aids in the development of synthetic fuels that will be needed in the future for aviation and shipping. With this expertise, we are strengthening Hamburg as a hub for innovation and industry and laying the groundwork for the emergence of new business models and industrial applications here.”
Hanspeter Tiede, Managing Director of eFuel DAC GmbH, continued: “DAC is a pragmatic and easily implementable supplement for achieving climate goals with a very significant impact. The DACMA Competence Center creates the conditions necessary to further develop this proven technology and to test the integration of CO2 capture into downstream production processes. With the negative emissions generated by this technology, Hamburg could realistically achieve the goals of the Climate Decision without jeopardising jobs in Hamburg’s industrial sector.”
Lorenz Kiene, Managing Director of the eFUEL GROUP, concluded: “To produce e-fuels, e-SAF and e-methanol, we need to combine renewable energy, hydrogen and suitable carbon sources. Our focus is therefore on integrating DAC into these production chains. Together with DACMA, we want to investigate the interfaces between CO2 supply and downstream processing.”
