总部位于洛杉矶的Avnos Inc.是一家直接空气捕获 (DAC) 公司，该公司在 11 月 6 日的新闻稿中表示，该公司在加利福尼亚州贝克斯菲尔德开始了其混合直接空气捕获 (HDAC) 的第一个商业试点项目。

HDAC 试点项目是与南加州天然气公司 (SoCalGas)合作开发，并得到美国能源部 (DOE) 的资助，提供了世界上第一个水正压 DAC 解决方案。

_{Avnos 表示，在推出该系统时，它颠覆了 DAC 中的水范例，每捕获一吨 CO 2}产生 5 吨液态蒸馏水，而其他 DAC 方法中每捕获一吨 CO ₂消耗多达 10 吨水。

因此，Avnos 向全球更多地区开放了 DAC 的地理和气候操作范围。贝克斯菲尔德试点项目每年将捕获约 30 吨大气二氧化碳并生产 150 吨水。

“这一公告标志着我们公司和行业的一个关键时刻，”Avnos 首席执行官威尔·凯恩 (Will Kain) 表示。“消除大气中遗留的二氧化碳排放对于解决气候变化的负面影响至关重要，这是我们一生中最紧迫的问题之一。阿夫诺斯团队一直在不懈地努力，在不对我们的自然资源造成进一步压力的情况下做到这一点“我们对启动这一试点感到非常自豪，从而证明了我们独特的 HDAC 解决方案的有效性和可扩展性。”

从大气中捕获水分使 Avnos 能够利用首创的水分波动 CO ₂吸附剂材料，从而消除了热量输入的需要，并且与其他 DAC 技术相比，能耗降低了 50% 以上。

_{“在推进基础技术的同时扩大碳管理项目的能力对于实现该州到 2045 年封存 1 亿吨 CO 2}的宏伟目标至关重要，”南加州天然气公司首席清洁燃料官 Neil Navin 表示。“碳管理如果大规模发展，可以帮助减少碳排放，改善空气质量，并为经济发展和创造高质量就业机会提供巨大机遇。”

在此项目之前，Avnos、康菲石油公司、JetBlue Technology Ventures（捷蓝航空的企业风险投资部门）和 Shell Ventures LLC（壳牌的美国风险投资部门）最近宣布了 8000 万美元的战略合作伙伴关系，旨在加快 Avnos 独特方法的实施。

Los Angeles-based Avnos Inc., a direct air capture (DAC) company, began its first operational commercial pilot project of its Hybrid Direct Air Capture (HDAC) in Bakersfield, California, the company said in a Nov. 6 press release.

Developed in partnership with Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the HDAC pilot delivers the world’s first water-positive DAC solution.

In launching this system, Avnos said it has inverted the water paradigm in DAC — producing 5 tons of liquid distilled water per ton of CO₂ captured, compared to up to 10 tons of water consumption per ton of CO₂ captured in other DAC approaches.

As a result, Avnos opens the geographic and climatic operating range for DAC to many more regions around the globe. The Bakersfield pilot will capture approximately 30 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide and produce 150 tons of water per year.

“This announcement marks a pivotal juncture for both our company and the industry,” said Will Kain, CEO at Avnos. "Removing legacy carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere is essential to addressing the negative effects of our changing climate, one of the most pressing issues of our lifetime. Doing so without further strain on our natural resources is something that the team at Avnos has worked tirelessly to achieve. We take a great deal of pride in launching this pilot, thereby proving the efficacy and scalability of our unique HDAC solution.”

Capturing water from the atmosphere allows Avnos to leverage a first-of-a-kind moisture-swing CO₂ adsorbent material, which in turn eliminates the need for heat input and reduces energy consumption by more than 50% compared to other DAC technologies.

“The ability to scale carbon management projects while advancing the underlying technologies could be critical to achieving the state’s ambitious goal of sequestering 100 million metric tons of CO₂ by 2045,” says Neil Navin, chief clean fuels officer at SoCalGas. “Carbon management, if developed at scale, could help reduce carbon emissions, improve air quality, and represents a tremendous opportunity for economic development and the creation of high-quality jobs.”

This project follows a recent $80M strategic partnership announcement between Avnos, ConocoPhillips and JetBlue Technology Ventures, the corporate venture capital division of JetBlue, and Shell Ventures LLC, the U.S. venture capital arm of Shell aimed at expediting the implementation of Avnos' distinctive approach.