Carbon Clean successfully tests world’s largest Rotating Packed Bed of this size for carbon capture

In the UK, Carbon Clean has announced the successful factory testing of the world’s largest Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) of this size for carbon capture. This breakthrough technology uses centrifugal force to enhance CO2 absorption and can capture up to 285 tonnes of CO2 per day. It has successfully completed an extensive verification program at Thomas Broadbent and Sons and is now ready for commercial deployment at industrial scale.

This achievement marks a significant milestone for Carbon Clean’s modular CycloneCC C1 series, which combines RPBs with the company’s proprietary APBS-CDRMax solvent to increase efficiency. It represents a more than 20-fold RPB scale-up from the first industrial demonstration of CycloneCC, which was designed to capture up to 10 metric tons of CO2 per day.

The CycloneCC C1 series replaces the large columns traditionally used in carbon capture systems with compact, high-efficiency RPBs. Each unit can capture up to 100,000 tons of CO₂ per year, while reducing equipment height by 70%, cutting steel requirements by 35%, and shrinking the overall footprint by up to 50%. The largest pieces of equipment are also up to 10 times smaller than conventional systems.