Carbon Herald just published NGK Deploys Honeycomb Structure Ceramics For Direct Air Capture At Project Brighton.
Carbon Herald reports that NGK Corporation, the Japanese industrial ceramics and technology manufacturer, has deployed its honeycomb structure ceramics at a direct air capture site referred to as Project Brighton, and that the equipment is now in operation. NGK is best known for ceramic honeycomb substrates used in automotive exhaust catalysts, and the company has been positioning the same high surface area geometry as a contactor platform for DAC sorbents. The outlet frames the installation as a move from material development into field deployment, with the ceramics serving as the structured medium through which ambient air is drawn so that CO2 can be captured and later released. Details on scale, partners, and capture performance were not available in the material we reviewed.
Our take (Heads-up): A credible materials supplier entering DAC hardware is worth tracking, since contactor durability and pressure drop are real cost levers. But the public summary gives no capture capacity, sorbent chemistry, energy figures, or named project partner, so there is nothing here to benchmark yet. Treat this as a deployment announcement, not a performance result, until data follows.
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Source: Carbon Herald