LanzaTech’s Carbon Recycling Technology Turns Waste into Saleable Products
An important step towards commercialization, LanzaTech is demonstrating its novel, next-generation bioreactor technology at demonstration-scale in Edmonton, Alberta. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology produces ethanol from forestry residues and off gases from municipal solid waste; the ethanol can then be used to make clothing, fuel, and more. This project takes a major step towards realizing a…
Carbonova Creates the Material of the Future
Carbonova, a spin-off company out of the University of Calgary, is accelerating the development and commercialization of new carbon capture and utilization technology that converts waste heat and carbon dioxide into carbon nanofibers that can be used to create valuable products. The project will help shift the world towards a circular economy. Carbon nanofibers have…
Capital Power to convert carbon into a versatile, highly-valuable product
One of the strongest materials ever discovered will soon be created out of carbon captured from Capital Power’s Genesee Generating Station. The proposed Genesee Carbon Conversion Centre, or GC3, will capture carbon from the facility’s flue gas and transform it into carbon nanotubes, a highly-valuable product that can be used to enhance material properties in…
CP looks to hydrogen locomotives to lead decarbonization of freight transportation sector
In December 2020, CP announced plans to design and build North America’s first line-haul hydrogen-powered locomotive using fuel cells and batteries to power the locomotive. To help expand this program, ERA has committed $15 million through its Shovel-Ready Challenge, enabling CP to increase the number of hydrogen locomotive conversions in the project from one to…
Kuva Systems: Making the invisible measurable
Permanent installation and demonstration of an infrared camera at 100 well sites across Alberta will provide continuous leak detection and quantification for tank emissions and facility monitoring. Kuva Systems will commercially demonstrate its ground-breaking IoT solution to detect, visualize, and quantify methane and other hydrocarbon emissions. ERA committed $1.6 million to the $3.2 million project…
Carbon Upcycling uses the pollution of today to build tomorrow
Carbon Upcycling Technologies uses CO2 emissions to create nanoparticles that enhance everyday materials like concrete, plastics, and batteries. Formed in direct response to Round 1 of ERA’s Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses, the Calgary-based start-up has identified over 10 different applications across various market sectors. They are one of four Canadian companies in the finals of the…
Lafarge’s low carbon fuels project to create jobs, reduce emissions, limit landfilling
Lafarge is exploring the environmental benefits of introducing lower carbon fuels at its Exshaw Cement Plant to replace 30 to 50 per cent of fossil fuel use with lower carbon options by 2020. Building off research from four other Canadian facilities, this multi-partner project is the most significant of its kind in Canada. While Exshaw’s…
CarbonCure creates cleaner concrete with new technology
Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in the world and its key ingredient, cement, has a significant carbon footprint. It is the source of about eight per cent of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. CarbonCure Technologies is setting out to change all that. The Canadian company has developed a technology that can…
Alberta-Pacific is not just a pulp and paper company, it’s a pulp and power company
The Al-Pac Kraft Pulp Mill will deploy a heat recovery system to capture heat from the plant’s flue gas stream. The recovered flue gas heat will go into the hot water system for the facility, freeing up steam to generate additional “green” electricity. The innovative aspect of this approach is the unique materials that can…
Inventys to demonstrate carbon capture technology at Husky
Members of the Inventys mechanical team onsite at Husky Energy. Construction of the 30-tonne per day carbon capture pilot plant will be completed Spring 2019. Innovative technology aimed at dramatically reducing the cost of capturing CO2 from industrial operations is in the final construction stages and due to begin collecting data by the end of…
