Mitigate the effects of climate change

Creating a carbon-neutral future with innovative direct air capture and long-term dry ice storage.

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Our Mission

Shaping a Carbon-Neutral Future

At TUM Carbon, we are committed to building a sustainable world by actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Through the development of innovative carbon removal technologies and long-term dry ice storage, we are turning ambition into action. Our next milestone: the completion of our first pilot plant — a decisive step toward scaling global climate solutions.

The Technology

Direct Air Capture and Long-Term Storage

Our carbon removal technology captures CO₂ from the atmosphere through Direct Air Capture, followed by dry ice storage for lasting impact. Air contactors extract CO₂, regeneration plants release and process it, and specialised repositories store it as dry ice — a scalable, flexible, and traceable solution critical to achieving global climate goals.

3 Part solution

Three Steps to Carbon Removal

Our technology captures and stores atmospheric CO₂ through an efficient three-stage process — designed for scalability, flexibility, and lasting impact.

Air Contactor

Fans pull air through filters that directly capture CO₂.

Air Contactor

Fans pull air through filters that directly capture CO₂.

Air Contactor

Fans pull air through filters that directly capture CO₂.

Regeneration Plant

Captured CO₂ is released, purified, and prepared for storage.

Regeneration Plant

Captured CO₂ is released, purified, and prepared for storage.

Regeneration Plant

Captured CO₂ is released, purified, and prepared for storage.

Dry Ice Storage

CO₂ is frozen into dry ice and safely stored for long-term impact.

Dry Ice Storage

CO₂ is frozen into dry ice and safely stored for long-term impact.

Dry Ice Storage

CO₂ is frozen into dry ice and safely stored for long-term impact.

Advantages of Our Technology

Scalability

Our technology scales with the requirements: The larger the system, the more CO₂ can be extracted from the atmosphere and the more energy-efficient it becomes with increasing size. The process can therefore be transferred particularly well to industrial scales and thus enables gradual, economical scaling up to large-scale application.

Scalability

Traceability

Every tonne of CO₂ captured is precisely measured, documented and certified - a clear advantage over conventional offsetting models. In this way, we create maximum transparency and security for companies - both in the balance sheet and towards customers, investors and supervisory authorities.

Traceability

Flexibility

The captured CO₂ is stored in the form of dry ice, which is not only transportable and storable, but also offers a wide range of future uses. For example, the CO₂ can be flexibly transferred to sustainable storage systems, which are currently still being researched. Our storage units are also ecologically designed: modular, deconstructable and resource-saving.

Flexibility

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About us

We are a student initiative and non-profit organisation from the Technical University of Munich.

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Prize

Winner of the 2023 Planet Hero Award by Zurich

The award supports environmental and climate-promoting initiatives so that they can increase their positive impact. In this way, Zurich Germany would like to make an active contribution to protecting our planet in the best possible way for the future - check it out.