Verdox, founded by MIT chemical engineers and winner of an XPRIZE Carbon Removal milestone award, is working to move the needle on climate change. By most benchmarks, MIT chemical engineering spinoff Verdox has been enjoying an outstanding year. Launched in 2019, the carbon capture and removal st
First developed at MIT, the technology enabled by Verdox enables a flow of air or flue gas containing carbon dioxide to enter the system from the left. As it passes between thin battery electrode plates, carbon dioxide attaches to the charged plates while the cleaned airstream passes on through and exits at the right. Credit: Image courtesy of the Hatton Labchemical engineers and winner of an XPRIZE Carbon Removal milestone award, is working to move the needle on climate change.
“While our core technology has been validated by the significant improvement of performance metrics, this external recognition further verifies our vision,” says Sahag Voskian SM ’15, PhD ’19, co-founder and chief technology officer at Verdox. “It shows that the path we’ve chosen is the right one.” Gas enters each stack on one side and is channeled through the electrodes that make up the stack, in which the carbon dioxide is absorbed. The remaining gas simply passes through the stack and exits on the other side. Once the stack is saturated with COexits the stack on the other side.
Because neither Hatton nor Voskian had ever commercialized a product before, they asked Baynes to help them get going. “I normally decline these requests, because the costs are generally greater than the upside,” Baynes says. “But this innovation had the potential to move the needle on climate change, and I saw it as a rare opportunity.”
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