Primary Technology Area: Industrial Transformation

  • Pilot 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…

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  • Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Silicon Lithium-ion Battery Materials for Transition to Electric Vehicles

    The market has been seeking batteries with higher energy density and lower weight, especially with the recent surge in demand for electric vehicles led by efforts toward a net-zero society. Even after several innovations in various parts of batteries in past decades, battery performance has been limited by the performance of anode materials. Silicon has…

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  • Electric boiler

    McCain foods is in the process of a $600 million expansion of their Coaldale, AB potato processing facility. The completed facility will have significant steam demand, currently supplied by natural gas boilers. As an addition to the main expansion project, McCain is implementing an electric boiler to generate a portion of steam for the plant.…

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  • Zero Waste Low GHG Regenerative Fertilizer Facility

    Replenish Nutrients Ltd. Has developed innovative agriculture input solutions using recycled organic matter in the form of compost and locally sourced elemental minerals resulting in a low salt product containing essential macro and micronutrients. These value-added soil creation solutions are particularly suited to Northern Alberta crops and provide the agricultural sector access to locally manufactured…

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  • Conversion of Carbon Waste to Graphene for Enabling Highliy Sistainable Cement- and Asphalt-based Materials

    It’s one thing to help reduce emissions within Alberta’s oil and gas industry but what if, at the same time, you could bring environmental benefits across three key industry sectors with one innovative project. A young, advanced materials company, Universal Matter Inc., based in Burlington, Ontario has a new disruptive technology that has the potential…

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  • Project Prairie Seawater – Synergistic benefits between lithium extraction of Alberta brines and separation of Ca and Mg for greener cement precursors

    ZS2 Technologies (ZS2), in partnership with Baymag, and in coordination with Lithium Bank, has developed new processes and chemistry for a low carbon Made-in-Alberta cement, and carbon capture and sequestration technology. This novel solution produces high performance building materials while simultaneously solving the need to decarbonize cement, providing both a practical and economic application that…

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  • Casing Expansion for Annular Wellbore Methane Leakage

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  • Energy Efficient Propylene-Propane Separation

    Trialing of membrane technology that reduces energy and emissions intensity of light olefins used to support the production of polymers, plastics, and other products. The project will build out two commercial facilities in Alberta and Ontario.

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  • Enhanced JetShear Regional Hub Development Project

    Fractal Systems Inc. is commercially deploying its Enhanced JetShear (EJS) technology for the first time at a Regional Hub facility at a midstream oil and gas site. The technology cost-effectively improves the quality and viscosity of bitumen; lowering transportation costs, increasing export pipeline capacity up to 20 per cent, and cutting wells-to-tank greenhouse gas (GHG)…

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  • MELT VR Simulator Development

    Edmonton-based Serious Labs will develop a virtual reality (VR) commercial truck driving simulator. As a leader in VR simulation solutions for heavy duty truck operators, Serious Labs will use the money to design, manufacture, and pilot the simulator in Alberta. Commercial deployment is expected to begin in 2024, with the simulator to be made available…

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