Design and Modeling and a Passive Carbon Capture Device

The atmospheric level of CO2 has increased at an alarming rate in the past 100 years, so much that its impact can be seen in melting ice caps, changing weather patterns, and enormous loss of marine life. Almost all nations are concerned with curbing the CO2 emissions and efforts are made to bring them to sustainable levels. However, emerging economies, such as China and India, that use fossil fuels as their primary energy source, have difficult time to balance the energy needs of large populations and reducing fossil fuel impact on environment. Fortunately, there has been considerable interest in recent years to reduce the current CO2 levels through active extraction from atmospheric air. However, one of the major drawbacks with these efforts is energy consumption for active extraction. In our research, an effort has been made to design, model and test a small-scale passive CO2 extraction devise. It consumes significantly less amount of energy compared to an active extraction device working within similar constraints. After successful testing, the design will be modified for industrial scale and mass production.