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High-Value Synthetic Chemicals and Gasoline Drop-In Liquid Fuels from Canada’s CO2 and Flare Gas Emissions
Based on over a decade of research from NASA, the DOE and a number of industrial projects, Pioneer has developed a process to create butanol from greenhouse gases. Butanol is an attractive alternative fuel substitute that also has many other applications. This innovative process also addresses key production issues facing other alternative fuels, including development…
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Field-Deployment of a Carbon Dioxide Transformation System Powered by Sunlight
McGill University, with its commercialization partner Lumenfab, is developing a novel technology that has the potential to create high quality fuels from CO2 emissions and wastewater by using just solar power. The team, which also includes representatives from the University of Alberta, McMaster University and Hydro Quebec, will build and field test a high efficiency…
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CO2 Conversion to Methanol through Bi-reforming
With funding from ERA, the University of California Riverside (UCR) created an innovative catalyst to be used in the conversion of CO2 and Methane (CH4) to produce methanol—a valuable fuel and intermediary chemical. This catalyst makes improvements on catalysts currently available, but still can be adopted for use by conventional processes currently in operation. This…
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Solidia Concrete – a Sustainable Method for Cement Production and CO2 Utilization
This project provided Alberta with new cement and concrete products with the goal of offering equivalent cost, superior performance and 70 per cent reduced CO2 footprint compared to Portland cement. The patented technology, proven at full-scale, uses CO2 to cure low-lime cement and achieves full strength concrete within 24 hours. Initial markets are precast masonry…
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Methanol+: Methanol from Carbon Dioxide and Green Hydrogen
Innovating in two major areas, Quantiam Technologies developed Methanol+ to combine hydrogen and CO2 to produce methanol. The first innovation comes from a catalyst database that helps increase efficiency gains, while the second innovation is the generation of hydrogen with environmentally sustainable methods. This process delivers a high-value chemical with a large market and a…
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CO2 Utilization in Concrete: A new circular economy model
CarbonCure’s technology is currently providing both economic and environmental benefits to Alberta’s construction industry at a dozen concrete plants. In the final phase of the Grand Challenge, CarbonCure will broaden its suite of carbon utilization technologies to offer a complete solution across the cement, concrete, and construction industry. With broad market adoption, the technology portfolio…
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Chemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide via Solar-Powered Artificial Photosynthesis
The CO2 transformation system designed by McGill University represents a completely new approach to carbon capture. The project uses techniques similar to natural photosynthesis occurring in nature. Using direct sunlight, a technology that was developed for solid-state LED lighting converts CO2 and non-potable water into commercially valuable chemicals, including methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2), oxygen (O2),…
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Integration of advanced hybrid inorganic membranes for carbon dioxide conversion
Using a small robust catalytic converter, Robert Gordon University (RGU) created a process that uses CO2 directly from flue gas at coal and natural gas power stations, or oil sands upgrader plants, to create a variety of commercially important intermediary and feedstock chemicals. The technology could be deployable and scalable, making it useful for a…
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Carbon Capture and Mineralogic Sequestration – Addressing the World Wide Epidemic on a World Wide Scale
Blue Planet has developed a technology platform called Liquid Condensed Phase (LCP) that creates usable green building products that contain sequestered CO2. Their LCP solution provides a more efficient, cost-effective method for CO2 emission control for industries from, cement, power, and petrochemical industries. At the same time, it creates a highly flexible primary raw material…
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High-efficiency CO2 capture using novel fibres in the production of soil conditioning agents and polymer replacements
CCm has created a unique process that fixes CO2 to base fibre materials to be used for soil conditioners, fertilizers and other polymers. The process delivers a highly efficient permanent capture of CO2 and creates high-demand products that can help create a positive long-term environmental impact. During the production of soil agents, CCm activates a…
