“We shifted our focus from developing cutting-edge technology for astronauts on the International Space Station to tackling the excess CO2 challenge here on Earth, but we never stopped looking upward.”
This newsletter features Skytree, a European company that is on a mission to revolutionize the way businesses approach carbon dioxide solutions.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Skytree harnesses CO2 from ambient air through the power of direct air capture (DAC) technology. By providing local, onsite CO2 generation across multiple markets, Skytree enables a transition away from fossil fuel based industrial processes and avoids transport to where the CO2 is needed. Skytree has registered 17 patents, in 5 patent families across US, Europe and China.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Skytree harnesses CO2 from ambient air through the power of direct air capture (DAC) technology. By providing local, onsite CO2 generation across multiple markets, Skytree enables a transition away from fossil fuel based industrial processes and avoids transport to where the CO2 is needed. Skytree has registered 17 patents, in 5 patent families across US, Europe and China.
What is Skytree’s origin story?
Skytree’s foundation is built from applied research, with an origin rooted in the stars.
We were born out of a technological innovation project at the European Space Agency (ESA). Skytree founder, Max Beaumont was a system engineer on a team working on the development of a CO2 scrubber, where space scientists evaluated over 50 sorbents. Today the CO2 sucking technology is supporting astronauts on the International Space Station.
We were born out of a technological innovation project at the European Space Agency (ESA). Skytree founder, Max Beaumont was a system engineer on a team working on the development of a CO2 scrubber, where space scientists evaluated over 50 sorbents. Today the CO2 sucking technology is supporting astronauts on the International Space Station.
Using the same technology, Max found that what served us in space, worked for us even better on the planet. He followed up with an entire decade of research and development through the ESA incubator program “ESA-BIC.“
We shifted our focus from developing cutting-edge technology for astronauts on the International Space Station to tackling the excess CO2 challenge here on Earth, but we never stopped looking upward.
What does Skytree do?
In general terms, we provide a way to collect CO2 directly from the air around us and use it for various purposes, helping move us towards a circular carbon economy, and hence a more sustainable future by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.
More specifically, Skytree’s decentralized direct air capture (DDAC) solution efficiently captures excess CO2 from the air onsite in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way using modular DDAC units.
Our DDAC Technology has a 3-step process:
- ADSORPTION: Our filter captures CO2 from ambient air.
- DESORPTION: The sorbent is heated, releasing the CO2.
- RELEASE: The CO2 stream is pressurized and then stored in a buffer tank, allowing it to be used for multiple applications.