Project Monarch
Capture6 Corp
Recipient
Berkeley, CA
Recipient Location
7th
Senate District
14th
Assembly District
$937,387
Amount Spent
Active
Project Status
Project Update
Project Monarch kicked off in November 2023.
The Issue
Project Innovation
Capture6 is designing and building a direct air capture system that will capture atmospheric carbon dioxide via use of a separation technology to process the effluent brine from the Pure Water Antelope Valley (PWAV) water treatment facility in Palmdale, California. They have developed a novel process for integrating DAC with the water treatment industry. This integration provides an alternative for brine disposal, and a more economically favorable and rapidly scalable direct air capture process for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal.
Project Benefits
Project benefits include demand response energy usage through flexible facility operations, provision of cost-effective, competitively energy-intensive DAC enabling water treatment facilities to scale and provide increased clean water to communities, increased percentage of freshwater return through use of brine which would otherwise be disposed of, removal of land-use and air pollution through elimination of evaporation ponds, reduction of capital and operational expenditure of water treatment facilities through elimination of evaporation ponds - which would ideally enable cost reductions to transfer to ratepayers, and direct GHG emissions reductions. This project will also study the impact of DAC on air pollutant levels, and initiate research into permanent CO2 storage, which at scale will further help abate the accelerating climate crisis.
Key Project Members
Ethan Cohen Cole
Subrecipients
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
PSE Healthy Energy
MWA Architects
Kleinfelder, Inc.
3D Surveying/Farrell Surveying
Katz & Associates
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions
Match Partners
PSE Healthy Energy
Capture6 Corp
