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Energy Foot-Print Reduction for Ethylene Manufacturing Process
With facilities in Calgary and Joffre, Nova Chemicals manufactures chemicals, plastic resins, and end products while working to keep their environmental impact to an absolute minimum. This energy efficiency project aimed to reduce GHG emissions by improving separation processes in ethylene manufacturing through innovative micro-porous molecular sieves that separate similar hydrocarbon molecules. Current ethylene manufacturing…
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Novel Ceramic Membrane-Based Technology for CO2 Capture and Sequestration and Hydrogen Production
Operating in more than 100 countries with over 300,000 employees, General Electric is a global infrastructure, finance and media company with strong roots in Canada’s industrial sector. In collaboration with the University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates, GE developed a ceramic membrane-based technology for the capture of sequestration-quality carbon in syngas streams. ERA supported a…
