The PEACH Project

The PEACH (Practical Electrochemical Air Capture) team is made up of chemists, engineers, legal scholars and geoscientists including UCalgary professor Dr. Steve Larter, PhD, UCalgary’s associate vice president (research-innovation). Together, this diverse team is committed to research, develop, test and deploy socially desirable solutions for large-scale carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal with the goal to create climate-change solutions. Through the support of the Scotiabank Net Zero Research Fund, the two-year pilot project aims to build an integrated system that uses electrochemistry to safely change and manipulate near-surface seawater chemistry. This will promote the natural uptake of CO₂ in the ocean while maintaining the health and well-being of marine ecosystems. PEACH technology aims to capture CO₂ for less than $100 per ton at the gigaton scale and take the developments from the lab to the field pilot stage within the next 10 years.

The PEACH project is now in technology-development phase and the system has a pilot device to demonstrate CO₂ removal and determine its efficiency. This groundbreaking development was summarized in a patent application filed in July 2022. The PEACH project has put Calgary on the map and furthers Scotiabank’s commitment and support of carbon dioxide-removal technologies.