A U.S. Energy Department grant of $18.7 million will help research into the nation’s largest direct air capture facility located in Oklahoma’s Osage County.
Called CapturePoint, the firm will use the funding to carry out research into methods of storage of carbon underground without the extraction of fossil fuels. Capture Point is a partner of the proposed Oklahoma Carbon Hub.
The hub is a project led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Los Alamos National Laboratory. It will rely on a project called the Bantam site located near Shidler and opened by carbon capture company Heimdal in August. It uses crushed limestone to passively absorb carbon dioxide, strip away the gas in a 2,000-degree kiln and reuse the rock.
Heimdal, considered a pioneer in direct air capture, launched the Bantam project in August 2024. With a nameplate capacity of more than 5,000 tons of CO2 capturable from the atmosphere annually, Bantam is currently the largest constructed DAC facility in the USA and the second largest constructed DAC facility in the world.
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