Researchers at EPFL Switzerland find a way to extract and store CO2 from commercial vehicles exhausts
Researchers at EPFL, Switzerland have now come up with a novel solution to this problem: capturing CO2 directly in the trucks' exhaust system and liquefying it in a box on the vehicle's roof. The liquid CO2 is then delivered to a service station, where it is turned into conventional fuel using renewable energy. The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by Francois Marechal, at EPFL's School of Engineering. The patented concept is the subject of a paper published in Frontiers in Energy Research.
The whole process takes place within a capsule measuring 2 m x 0.9 m x 1.2 m, placed above the driver's cabin. "The weight of the capsule and the tank is only 7 percent of the vehicle's payload," adds Marechal. "The process itself uses little energy because all of its stages have been optimized." https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10240dc3789119b4f4aa90b95d1537c377