Building the rolling chassis platform for industrial carbon-removal.
Aquairo is building the modular, upgradeable industrial platform upon which future generations of Direct Air Carbon Capture can evolve. This is "Project Carousel"; our first manufacturing-led architecture engineered to accommodate continuous improvement.
Platform architecture
The Skateboard Platform for Direct Air Carbon Capture
In the modern automotive industry, companies don't design every vehicle from scratch. Instead, they build on an advanced, unified "skateboard" platform containing the motors, thermal loops and digital brains. Aquairo is applying this high-leverage model to Direct Air Carbon Capture.
Project Carousel is engineering the physical chassis — the structural, mechanical and digital foundation shared by every future generation of the platform. Sorbent developers integrate their proprietary carbon-capture materials through a standardised interface, without needing to design an entire capture facility from first principles. Whenever the chemistry improves, the chassis upgrades seamlessly without costly or time-consuming structural redesign.
About the platform
How Aquairo Creates Value
Aquairo separates the industrial platform from the capture chemistry. This allows each to evolve independently while creating long-term value for both platform owners and sorbent innovators.
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Aquairo Builds the Platform
Aquairo engineers the industrial foundation: the physical structure, energy systems and digital control architecture that bring the entire platform together.
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Partners Contribute Innovation
Sorbent developers, universities and materials companies integrate their proprietary capture materials through Aquairo's standardised platform interface, instead of designing an entirely new Direct Air Capture facility from first principles.
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The Platform Keeps Improving
As improved sorbents, software, heat recovery systems and operating methods emerge, they can be incorporated into the existing platform without redesigning the underlying industrial architecture.
The result is a Direct Air Capture platform designed to remain upgradeable as capture technologies continue to evolve.
Context
Why Now?
980 million tonnes
Annual Direct Air Carbon Capture envisaged by the International Energy Agency's Net Zero pathway by 2050.
32 new facilities
Equivalent number of one-million-tonne DAC plants required annually to achieve that pathway.
US$4 billion
Government commitments already announced globally in support of Direct Air Capture.
Industrial carbon removal is moving from scientific demonstration towards industrial deployment. If the sector develops at anything approaching this scale, the opportunity extends beyond improved capture chemistry to the industrial platforms capable of supporting successive generations of technology.
Programme
Project Carousel is Aquairo's first technology-development programme.
Project Carousel is the engineering programme through which Aquairo will develop and validate its first industrial platform for Direct Air Carbon Capture. Aquairo is currently engaging with investors to fund this programme's next phase. Full documentation is available to authorised investors, advisers and partners through the Aquairo Portal.
Corporate structure
One organisation. Clear hierarchy.
Legal entity
VerifiedClimate Limited
TRADING BRAND
Aquairo
TECHNOLOGY-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Project Carousel
Products developed and supported by Aquairo
Future commercial platforms
Independent Technical Challenge
Aquairo intends to establish an Industrial Advisory Council comprising recognised leaders across engineering, manufacturing and industrial scale-up. Its purpose will be to provide independent technical challenge, strategic guidance and industrial insight as Project Carousel progresses through its engineering programme.