DAC park

About Us

Our History

NEG8 Carbon started as Trinity Green Energies in 2014 as a spin-out from carbon capture research conducted at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. Following investment in 2021, the team began to commercialise the technology. We changed our name to ‘NEG8 Carbon’  to reflect our dedication to capturing carbon to fight climate change. We are now based in Waterford, Ireland, where our labs and development centre is located. Here we developed Ireland’s first operational DAC system, and we have scaled our process for the deployment of full-scale commercial units.
NEG8 Founders

Big Ambitions,
Lasting Legacy

Capturing carbon to help industries and governments reach net-zero and carbon negativity

Driven by this vision, NEG8 Carbon has brought together a highly qualified, high performing team to establish our position as the core technology for DAC and carbon utilization project developers. By 2040, NEG8 Carbon aims to deploy tens of thousands of adsorber systems with the goal of mitigating 100 million tonnes of CO2 every year by 2050.

Timeline

2021

Initial design phase completed and commercialisation centre established

2023

Demonstration Unit Produced

2025

Production of 1st Modular Full Scale CO2 Capture Unit

2030

1 Megatonne CO2 Captured

2040

4.2 Megatonne CO2 Captured Annually

2050

100 Megatonne CO2 Captured

carbon capture tech partnerships

Where is NEG8 Carbon’s DAC Technology Used?

DAC Project Developers

NEG8 Carbon supplies the technology and builds the DAC adsorber units for Direct Air Capture projects.

Utilization Processes

Our captured CO₂ can be used, for example, as feedstock, in food and beverages, in producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and the storage of CO₂ in concrete. (See: What is Carbon Dioxide Utilization?)

Achieving Net-Zero is Possible

The Team

Meet The Scientists And Engineers Developing Carbon Capture Technologies

Our team of scientists and engineers all share a deep passion for solving the challenge of carbon reduction across the world.

Ray Naughton

Ray Naughton

Managing Director
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Ray is an experienced businessman with a background in international business having led Siemens Nixdorf in Ireland over a period of 11 years. Ray also co-founded a university seed fund where he invested in and helped develop many IP based high technology businesses. He continues this work as a private investor and advisor to a number of early-stage Irish technology companies.

Prof Don MacElroy

Prof J.M Don MacElroy

Technology Director
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BE, PhD, FIChemE, MAmerIChE

Don is an eminent academic having served as a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla for 10 years and subsequently appointed Chair and Head of the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering in 2003. He retired as Emeritus Chair of Chemical Engineering in 2016.

His primary research interests include carbon emissions control, reduction and capture and his research has been recognised and supported by Irish, EU and US research organisations.  He has been researching and developing carbon capture technologies for the past 30 years and has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field.

John Breen

Dr John Breen

Chief Technology Officer
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BEng, PhD

John is a chemical engineering post graduate with extensive experience in fields relevant to carbon capture and utilisation. He has published extensively in the fields of emission control, hydrogen production and carbon utilisation (over 40 papers). He was Chief Technology Officer at MOF Technologies, a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) specialising in the production, characterisation and utilisation of Metal Organic Framework sorbents for applications including carbon capture. He was instrumental in growing and expanding the company from its roots in a university research laboratory and helping to prepare the company for its successful initial VC funding round.  He has experience in developing technologies from the laboratory to pilot scale and on to full scale manufacturing. He is passionate about combatting climate change and brings over 20 years of experience in fields related to carbon capture and utilisation to the development and commercialisation of NEG8 Carbon’s DAC technology.

Grainne Moynihan

Gráinne Moynihan

Chief Financial Officer
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BA, PGrad Dip Business Studies, CIMA (ACMA)

Gráinne has a wealth of global knowledge at a strategic finance level following 25 years in a diverse set of multinational and early stage companies.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she has worked in several countries, including as CFO of the Coca-Cola HBC operation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and has an outstanding track record in delivering multi-million euro projects. Also on the board of Waterford Leader Partnership in Ireland, she is passionate about the power of technology to reduce the impact of climate change.