据ICIS-MRC网站12月15日莫斯科报道,根据烃加工网称,美国联合航空公司表示,该公司已承诺投资一个数百万美元的项目,即通过空气直接捕获技术去除空气中的二氧化碳,作为到2050年实现100%“绿色”计划的一部分。
该项目名为1PointFive是西方石油公司(OxyLowCarbonVentures)子公司OxyLowCarbonVentures与RusheenCapitalManagement的合作项目,计划建造第一座美国工业规模的直接空气捕获工厂,每年永久封存100万吨二氧化碳。
联合航空表示,这相当于4000万棵树所能做到的,但覆盖的陆地面积比这小约3000倍。其还补充道,直接捕获技术是为数不多的已被证明可以校正飞机排放的方法之一。联合航空拒绝透露投资金额的细节。
联合首席执行官斯科特·柯比(Scott Kirby)在向记者介绍该项目时表示,碳捕获与封存是唯一一种可扩展的技术,可以从大气中清除碳并将其埋在地下。 隔离是一个真正而永久的解决方案。
到目前为止,航空业主要关注的是购买碳补偿,以减少飞行对环境的影响。今年早些时候,新冠疫情扰乱了全球航空旅行。在此之前,碳减排曾被认为是航空公司的首要任务,尤其是欧洲的航空公司,因为欧洲的“增碳飞行是耻辱”运动势头强劲。
尽管疫情迫使航空公司将重点放在日常生存上,而不是长期的环境目标上,柯比称,气候变化可能会以比疫情更加戏剧化地改变人们的行为。除了碳捕捉项目,联合航空还投资于可持续航空燃料,这种燃料的碳排放量比传统航空燃料少80%。
航空公司对气候变化的大部分贡献来自于飞行所需的燃料。Kirby表示,在疫情期间,空中的飞机减少了,排放量可能下降了约55%。他称,碳捕捉项目将抵消美联航近10%的年排放量。
郝芬 译自 ICIS-MRC
原文如下:
United Airlines invests in carbon-capture project to be 100% green by 2050
United Airlines said it had committed to a multimillion-dollar investment in a project to remove carbon dioxide from the air through air direct-capture technology as part of a plan to be 100% "green" by 2050, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The project, 1PointFive, is a partnership between Occidental Petroleum Corp subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and Rusheen Capital Management that plans to build the first U.S. industrial-sized direct air capture plant that would permanently sequester 1 million tons of CO2 each year.
That is the equivalent of what 40 million trees can do, but covering a land area about 3,000 times smaller, United said, adding that direct-capture technology is Speaking to reporters about the project, United CEO Scott Kirby said carbon capture and sequestration is the Until now, the airline industry has focused primarily Although the pandemic has forced airlines to focus heavily Most of an airline's contribution to climate change comes from the fuel it takes to fly. Kirby said that with fewer planes in the skies during the pandemic, emissions were likely down about 55%. The carbon-capture project will offset nearly 10% of United's annual emissions, he said.