HIF Global, Porsche, Volkswagen Group Develop DAC Unit, Install at Haru Oni

HIF Global, Porsche AG, and Volkswagen Group Innovation have announced the development and planned installation of a new direct air capture (DAC) unit. The unit will be installed at HIF’s eFuel-integrated Haru Oni Demonstration facility in Chile for 2024.

"We are not waiting for solutions to come to us; we are creating them and leading the way. We have proven carbon-neutral eFuels are a real solution to help decarbonize transportation,” said Cesar Norton, President and CEO of HIF Global. “Now we are accelerating DAC technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO₂ capture – the future of CO₂ recycling. We are very happy to be cooperating with Porsche to pioneer this unit in our facility in Chile and we hope to escalate this technology in the near future."

HIF Global with model of DAC unit; Image Credits: HIF Global

The new DAC unit will support the Haru Oni facility’s current green operations—which uses biogenic CO₂ and hydrogen produced by wind—and filter up to 600 tons of CO₂ from the air per year. By combining green hydrogen and recycled CO₂, eFuels are produced to obtain eMethanol, which is transformed into synthetic fuels such as eGasoline and e-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

“To slow global warming, it is essential to reduce emissions and remove CO₂ from the atmosphere,” said Michael Steiner, Member of the Executive Board for Research and Development at Porsche AG. “At the same time, we need CO₂ as a raw material in many production processes. Why not combine the two? We're working on that. We want to put an industrial direct air capture, or DAC, procedure into series production.”