China’s first 10,000-ton direct air carbon capture (DAC) project has been approved

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On October 9, Black Whale Energy announced that the first 10,000-ton direct air carbon capture (DAC) project had been officially approved. Construction of this project is scheduled to begin in December 2025. As the first negative-carbonization factory under China’s DAC technology roadmap, this project makes full use of the region’s advantages in green electricity by combining wind power generation with direct air carbon capture technology, and safely sequestering the captured carbon dioxide in geological formations. Upon completion, this project is expected to become the world’s first integrated DACS project combining wind power, DAC, and geological storage, thus filling a gap in the DAC industry. On September 2, the project titled \"Development of New High-Efficiency Direct Air Carbon Capture Technologies and Thousand-Ton Scale Demonstration Applications\", jointly proposed by Sinopec (Shanghai) Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd., Black Whale Energy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and East China University of Science and Technology, was included in the list of projects approved under the 2025 Key Technology R&D Program in the field of \"new energy\", as announced by the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology is regarded as a key approach for achieving the global goal of \"carbon neutrality.\" The high technical complexity and significant energy costs represent worldwide challenges that hinder its large-scale commercial application. With its advanced approach and continuous innovation in the field of carbon capture and utilization, Black Whale Energy has joined forces with organizations such as Sinopec Shanghai Research Institute, which possess strong R&D capabilities and engineering expertise, in an effort to overcome the challenges related to developing DAC core materials and processes that feature high absorption capacity and low energy consumption. The new technology to be developed under this project is expected to reach international leadership levels in terms of capture efficiency and energy consumption control.