Rivan Industries: DAC Carbonation System
R&D Mechanical Engineer / 2025 to Present
The Company
Rivan Industries is a climate tech startup building direct air capture and synthetic fuel technology. The system is modular, with three process stages that pull CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it into fuel.
My Role
I joined as an R&D Mechanical Engineer while finishing my masters at Imperial and the RCA. My main job has been designing and validating the 100kW carbonation prototype, one of three core modules in the full system.
The work is a tight loop. Research, hypothesis, prototype, test, model. Each iteration feeds the next design revision.
The Carbonation System
The carbonation module handles the chemical reaction stage of the DAC process. I designed it from first principles through to a physical prototype, covering thermal and fluid analysis, material selection, and manufacturing. The prototype was built, commissioned, and tested at full scale.
