Carbon Clean

Carbon Clean attacks the reason point-source capture has stayed out of most heavy-industry sites: conventional plants are enormous, bespoke, tower-based installations that take years and hundreds of millions to build. Its flagship CycloneCC replaces the tall absorber columns with compact rotating-packed-bed technology, shrinking the footprint roughly tenfold and delivering the system as standardized, skid-mounted modules that can be installed in under eight weeks rather than years — the exact cost-and-footprint reframing that could make capture viable for the cement, steel, and refining emitters that bespoke plants have priced out. The technology hit real milestones by 2026: the world's first industrial CycloneCC deployment logged roughly 4,000 operating hours over six months, reaching Technology Readiness Level 7, with a commercial-scale factory test of the C1 unit completed in the UK. The commercial pipeline is deep and blue-chip — a record-setting 2022 $150M Series C led by Chevron (with CEMEX Ventures, Marubeni, Samsung Ventures, and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures), plus collaborations with Aramco and Samsung E&A, a MODEC deal for offshore FPSO capture, and a BHP/JSW steel exploration. Founded in 2009, Carbon Clean is not a science project but a seasoned engineering company with fielded units, industrial references, and the modular-standardization thesis that separates capture technologies that scale from those that stay pilots.