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Exshaw Cement Carbon Capture and Bow Valley Decarbonization
Lafarge Canada Inc. is assessing the technical and economic feasibility of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) at the Exshaw Cement Plant. The project will collaborate with strategic partners across the value chain and includes considerations for a transportation network and sequestration hub that will have future ability to link multiple industrial capture sites to…
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Feasibility and FEED for Post-Combustion Flue Gas Carbon Capture at Strathcona Resources Ltd Cold Lake Region SAGD Facilities
Strathcona Resources Ltd. (SRL) is pursuing development of a distributed Carbon Capture and Sequestration hub in the Cold Lake region to enable collection and permanent disposal of emissions from its three flagship thermal operations – Tucker, Orion, and Lindbergh. Combined, these three facilities produce approximately 62,000 bbls per day of bitumen using steam-assisted gravity drainage…
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Hinton Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage Project
The Hinton Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS) Project Study is led by Vault 44.01 in collaboration with West Fraser and TorchLight Bioresources. The study supports a project that would capture and store biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at West Fraser’s Hinton Pulp Mill site, permanently removing 1.3 million metric tonnes of CO2 from the…
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Brewery GHG reduction first-of-kind commercialization project
Blindman Brewing is partnering with Earthly Labs to adopt their CO2 capture and reuse technology in its brewing process in collaboration with Olds College and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. CO2 that is free from oxygen and nitrogen is captured from the fermentation process and sent to a foam trap where most of the liquid…
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CO2 Capture Technology
Utilizing Novel Solvents for Efficient Carbon Capture This project was funded in 2012 through Round 4: Carbon Capture plus Energy Technology to evaluate a proprietary solvent-based CO2 capture technology. Overall, the project aimed to reduce CO2 emissions and to capture CO2 for enhanced heavy oil recovery opportunities in Alberta and Saskatchewan. While solvent-based systems…
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VeloxoTherm Carbon Capture
Project Overview Approved for funding through ERA’s Round 4: Carbon Capture + Energy Technology in 2012, Svante demonstrated its next-generation solid-sorbent CO2 capture technology as a potential competitor to commercially available amine technology. By completion in 2021, the project demonstrated the technology at a Husky oil and gas facility in western Canada, enabling Svante to…
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Immobilized CA in fluidized bed with amine for low severity CCS
Advancing a Novel Enzyme for Efficient Carbon Capture Funded through Round 5: SMEs only, this project successfully advanced CO2 Solutions Inc.’s enzymatic carbon capture technology from lab-scale to large bench-scale, achieving significant reductions in energy use and overall capture costs compared to conventional amine-based methods. The project prepared the technology for a 10-tonne/day field pilot…
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Integrated LNG and carbon capture concept
Using Cryogenic Freezing for Carbon Capture and Energy Storage The Cryogenic Carbon Capture™ with Energy Storage (CCC ES™) project was funded in 2012 through Round 5: SMEs Only and demonstrated a novel post-combustion CO2 capture technology that uses cryogenic cooling to efficiently remove CO2 from flue gas. The objective of this project was to explore…
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Novel Ceramic Membrane-Based Technology for CO2 Capture and Sequestration and Hydrogen Production
Advancing Ceramic Membrane Technology for Carbon Capture This project was funded through Round 1: Open Call in 2011 and aimed to develop a hydrogen-selective ceramic membrane for carbon capture and hydrogen separation. The project wrapped up earlier than anticipated, in 2012, due to challenges in scaling up defect-free membranes and a lack of economic benefit…
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OTSG Oxy-fuel Demonstration Project
Retrofitting Boilers to Simplify Carbon Capture Funded through Round 1: Open Call in 2010, this project piloted the oxy-fuel combustion technology in a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) boiler called a once-through steam generator (OTSG). The test was successful and showed that a conventional OTSG at an oil sands facility could be retrofitted for this technology…
