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MHP Refinery Project
Sherritt International Corporation is a world leader in using hydrometallurgical processes to mine and refine nickel and cobalt. Focusing on increasing domestic critical minerals supply, reducing GHG emissions, and advancing decarbonization, Sherritt has been actively advancing its Midstream Refinery Project. This project aims to produce high-purity nickel and cobalt sulphate for North American and global
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Upcycling recycled polyethylene (rPE) via advanced compounding technologies
NOVA Chemicals is advancing a project to enhance the use of recycled polyethylene (rPE) through advanced compounding technologies. The project aims to address the limitations of mechanical recycling, such as polymer degradation and contamination, which currently restrict rPE applications to lower-tier products. By developing new polymer designs and specialty compounding formulations, NOVA seeks to enable
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Recycling of hard to recycle PET clamshell materials into food grade packaging
PET clamshell material packaging is a ‘hard to recycle’ plastic and, unless it is recycled, most now ends up in landfill. The project will be installing a process to recover 5,000 metric tonnes per year of PET clamshell material. In recovering 5,000 metric tonnes per year of PET clamshell material per year, the global net
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Alberta Brines to Battery-Grade Lithium: 2024 Demonstration Program
E3 Lithium (E3) is proposing to produce battery grade Lithium Carbonate (LC) from locally sourced brine in Alberta, using a direct lithium extraction (DLE) process. The DLE process involves the deployment of sorbent materials that selectively capture lithium-ions from the brine while excluding other ions. E3 also plans to incorporate water recycling to create a
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RPMachine Fabrication and Demonstration
Resolve Plastic Recycling Ltd. (“RPR”) will build and demonstrate a novel technology for recycling and accelerate its development to commercial-ready. The RPMachine is a stand-alone plastics recycling technology (“PRT”) that is contained and operated in a shipping container or semi-trailer. The RPMachine employs a non-emitting process to convert 3 tonnes of waste plastic per hour
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Materials and Methods to Manufacture Carbon Fibers from Petroleum Asphaltenes
With ~180 billion barrels of bitumen reserves in Alberta, a considerable amount of asphaltenes (~17 wt%) are present within them. Asphaltenes, being highly carbon-rich by-products, hold great promise to serve as a cheap feedstock for a wide variety of non-combustible, high-value products with high volume applications. From Phase I and II of the Carbon Fiber
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Pre-Commercial Production of Carbon Fibre and Carbon Fibre Products using Alberta Bitumen Vacuum Refinery Residue-Derived and Asphaltenes-Based Precursors
Thread’s Vision is to advance sustainable human evolution of structure and design by unlocking the productive efficiency of carbon fiber. Cumulating from over seven years of innovation, Thread has developed proprietary and patent-pending process technology to produce carbon fiber from Alberta oil sands bitumen-based feedstocks. Regarded as a strategic material in next-generation structure and design,
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Development of Lower-Cost High-Value Carbon Fibres from Alberta Bitumen Derived Feeds
Bitumen derived carbon fibres provide a route to not only create low-cost high-performance fibres for clean tech, but reduce the carbon footprint of carbon fibre production. Based on scientific advancement, the project aims at the development of functional carbon fibre prototypes for applications such as electromagnetic shielding for battery cases, conductive filaments for anodes, 3-D
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Lignin Based Production of Hard Carbon for L-ion Battery (LIB) Anodes
Demand for electric batteries is increasing at unprecedented rates, driving demand for anode grade activated Hard Carbon (HC), a key component in several battery technologies, including L-ion Batteries (LIB). Without a North American source, North American based battery makers must import activated carbon from Asia, generating GHG emissions from transportation and creating a supply chain
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Direct Lithium Extraction Demo Plant
Litus is building a portable demo plant in Alberta, designed to be deployed at field locations to demonstrate the effectiveness of LiNC technology. Litus LiNC is more efficient, cost effective and cleaner than competing technologies due to its nano enabled lithium selectivity, and affinity, as well as the unmatched robustness of its nano material. Demonstrating
