{"id":168673,"date":"2025-10-09T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=168673"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:57:01","slug":"origen-commissions-multi-fuel-limestone-kiln-with-built-in-direct-air-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/origen-commissions-multi-fuel-limestone-kiln-with-built-in-direct-air-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Origen Commissions Multi-Fuel Limestone Kiln With Built-In Direct Air Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

UK- and US-based climate tech company Origen has commissioned a new limestone kiln at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in North Dakota, advancing efforts to decarbonize lime production. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Origen\u2019s Zero-Emission Kiln Commissioned at Demonstration Facility \u00a9 Origen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Standing more than seven stories tall, the kiln is designed to cut over 2,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year in an industry that typically produces up to 0.75 tons of CO2 for every ton of quicklime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology leverages limestone\u2019s natural chemistry: reversing calcination, the high-temperature process that releases CO2, by enabling lime to reabsorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\u00a0This cycle, known as carbonation or mineralization, turns lime back into limestone, effectively removing CO2 from the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuel-Flexible System Designed for Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the project is Origen<\/a>\u2019s oxy-fuel flash calciner, engineered to operate on a range of fuels, including natural gas, biomethane, biogas, and hydrogen, helping avoid renewable energy supply bottlenecks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North Dakota project marks a key milestone on the path toward Origen\u2019s first commercial-scale deployment. That effort is supported by the Pelican DAC Hub, a collaboration between Origen,\u00a0Shell<\/a>, and Mitsubishi in southern Louisiana that aims for an initial capacity of 50,000 tons of CO2 captured per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Origen and its partners raised $13 million in Series A funding to accelerate development and reduce costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis funding gives us the runway we need to streamline our process and reduce costs to deliver the carbon reductions that our planet needs,\u201d said Ben Riddle-Turner, CEO of Origen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the kiln now operational, Origen is preparing to test its proprietary air contactor at EERC in the coming months. Once online, the system will pull CO2 directly from the atmosphere, completing the direct air capture cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK- and US-based climate tech company Origen has commissioned a new limestone kiln at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in North Dakota, advancing efforts to decarbonize lime production.  Standing more than seven stories tall, the kiln is designed to cut over 2,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year in an industry that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":168697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The technology leverages limestone\u2019s natural chemistry: reversing calcination, a high-temperature process that releases CO2 by enabling lime to reabsorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[5714,10744,12330,10416,5627,10743],"supplier":[5362,2824,17947,647],"class_list":["post-168673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-biofuels","tag-carboncapture","tag-ccu","tag-circulareconomy","tag-energy","tag-useco2","supplier-energy-environmental-research-center","supplier-mitsubishi-corp","supplier-origen","supplier-shell-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168673"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=168673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}