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AGG's proprietary technology involves the conversion of carbon dioxide and other carbonaceous inputs into syngas for use in further processing of transportation fuels, power generation, process heat, and higher value products. The technology has the potential to create new industrial enterprises that are in the mutual interests of clean renewable energy, but also oil and gas, coal, and other commercial and industrial installations.
Algenol Biotech is a leading edge biotechnology company that manufactures multiple types of algae from molecular to commercial scale. Our clean blue-green algae cultivation process yields high quality, sustainable and affordable products.
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At Aljadix we are developing carbon negative biofuel from microalgae feedstock. Carbon negative biofuel is a novel negative emissions technology which not only replaces liquid fossil fuel but also permanently removes carbon from the atmosphere. Our globally scalable format provides a breakthrough in biofuel technology and takes direct action against climate change.
Blue Planet’s technology uses CO2 as a raw material for making carbonate rocks. The carbonate rocks produced are used in place of natural limestone rock mined from quarries, which is the principal component of concrete. CO2 from flue gas is converted to carbonate (or CO3=) by contacting CO2 containing gas with a water-based capture solutions. This differentiates Blue Planet from most CO2 capture methods because the captured CO2 does not require a purification step, which is an energy and capital intensive process. As a result Blue Planet’s capture method is extremely efficient, and results in a lower cost than traditional methods of CO2 capture.
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FUEL OUT OF THIN AIR. Breathe reimagines carbon dioxide! The only Indian team in the $20 million NRG|COSIA XPRIZE.
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We’ve discovered the inexpensive transformation of the greenhouse carbon dioxide into a widely useful and highly valued product. In our C2CNT process, CO2 is directly transformed to hollow nanofibers, “carbon nanotubes,” products with remarkable properties of conductivity, nanoelectronics, higher capacity batteries, flexibility, with greater strength than steel and widespread use as carbon composites. The conversion of CO2 to pure carbon nanotubes provides the most compact form to capture carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.
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Led by Wayne Song, the team is producing methanol and bio-composite boards.
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We’re a technology company that develops innovative, low-cost building solutions that contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Our patented technology allows manufacturers to produce cement-free, carbon-negative concrete. We are working with construction professionals, retailers and our licensed partners toward realizing our vision of a world built using cost-effective, carbon-negative construction materials.
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We offer a versatile, scalable mineralisation technology that profitably converts CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion into valuable products. Modular Carbon Capture Machines (CCMs) will be developed, tested and demonstrated to efficiently combine CO2 from stack emissions, an alkali base and formation or produced water (or other) brines containing Ca and Mg (the inputs), to produce valuable solid carbonate feedstocks, and products from those feedstocks (the outputs). The technology can be deployed worldwide.
Carbon Clean Solutions Pvt. Ltd. develops carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technology for industrial and gas treating applications in power plants and industrial utilities. It offers CDRMax technology to recover CO2 from flue gases of rotary kilns or reformers in the fertilizer industry; Meth Pure technology for biogas purification to remove unwanted gases without the loss of methane in BioCNG; CCS TGR technology to reduce direct emissions of CO2 by upgrading low calorific value syngas from the iron production processes, such as blast furnace and direct reduction of iron in the iron and steel industry; and carbon capture technology that enables CO2 capture from coal/gas fired power stations.
We have built our direct air capture (DAC) technology upon established chemical processing industry equipment and techniques, augmented by our own innovations and IP throughout. Our DAC system has four major unit operations that comprise a closed chemical loop, which continuously captures CO2 from atmospheric air, and delivers a purified compressed stream of CO2, using only water and energy as inputs.
Our technology, now proven with successive prototype and pilot demonstrations, can scale up to capture 1,000,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year with each commercial-scale facility. That quantity of CO₂ is equivalent to the annual emissions of 250,000 average cars.
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) is the world leader in power to methanol technology. We produce renewable methanol from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and electricity for energy storage, fuel applications, and efficiency enhancement. We are a technology provider to the power generation and industrial production industries. Our solutions are environmentally friendly and do not impact the food chain or land use. We are located in Iceland.
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Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. (CUT) is a Canadian clean-tech startup based out of Calgary, Canada that is working on sequestering CO2 gas in a solid form while creating high quality graphite and graphene nanoparticles.
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Carbon upcycling is based on the integration of several technologies into a closed-loop, to fabricate CO2NCRETE™, a near CO2-neutral construction material. The process is designed to efficiently utilize flue gas exhausted from point source emitters (e.g., power plants and cement plants), by efficiently recovering waste heat and enriching CO2 present in the gas stream. A novel binder system based on calcium hydroxide (hydrated lime) is mixed with aggregates and admixtures to form a shape-stabilized CO2NCRETE™ building element. The final, and key step lies in combining the captured CO2 with CO2NCRETE™ element via a carbonation reaction (i.e., CO2-mineralization) to form a solid building component. These elements can be used like Lego® to rapidly assemble buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure traditionally constructed with concrete.
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CarbonCure’s retrofit technology chemically sequesters waste carbon dioxide during the concrete manufacturing process to make greener and stronger concrete. CarbonCure is part of a growing industry of CO2-utilization technologies that are expected to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 15% by 2030. CarbonCure’s technology is currently operational in a growing number of concrete plants across North America, including several of the world’s largest vertically-integrated cement and concrete companies.
Carbonfree Chemicals has developed proprietary technologies that capture flue gases that would otherwise release CO2 into the environment and transform them into solid carbonate materials.
Imagine if all industrial manufacturing plants (e.g., power plants, refineries, steel mills, cement plants) could reduce pollution and create more green products – sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), hydrochloric acid, caustic soda and household bleach.
SkyMine® technology can make this a reality at new or existing industrial facilities around the world. Our premier carbon capture and utilization process are unlike any other method of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) because it creates usable solids from greenhouse gases.
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Catalytic Innovations’ technology uses electricity to rearrange the atoms present in water and carbon dioxide to make ethanol and oxygen. Ethanol is an important low-carbon fuel additive in gasoline, and is also recognizable as beverage alcohol. This technology is designed to generate food-grade ethanol - turning air, water, and electricity into drinkable spirits.
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Team CERT is a multidisciplinary team of over 15 researchers based at the University of Toronto in Canada. We have a diverse background spanning chemistry, materials science, physics, photonics, and electrical engineering. We work to address key challenges in the field of renewable energy. Our group has certified 7 world-record efficiency quantum-dot solar cells, and remains a leader in solar-harvesting technology broadly. Our work on addressing the need for carbon-neutral fuel systems has focused on efficient reduction of atmospheric CO2 into usable carbon products. We have developed record performance catalysts for the reduction of CO2 into CO, and the evolution of O2 from H2O—two key reactions needed to realize this goal.
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CFOAM LTD was formed in March 2016 as the holding company for the wholly owned US subsidiary Carbon Innovations, LLC to acquire assets, Intellectual Property and 27 various patents from Touchstone Research Laboratories via an Asset Purchase Agreement. After a very successful Initial Public Offering that raised over $9M Australian dollars, the company was admitted to quotation on the ASX on 26 October 2016, under the ticker symbol CFO.
Climeworks captures CO2 from air with the world’s first commercial carbon removal technology. Our direct air capture plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere to supply to customers and to unlock a negative emissions future.
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CO2 Solutions’ technology employs the most powerful known catalyst for carbon management, the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA). Developed by nature, CA is omnipresent to all living organisms and efficiently manages carbon dioxide during respiration. In an industrial CO2 system, CA can be utilized as a catalyst to dramatically accelerate simple and benign salt solutions. The result is both fast CO2absorption kinetics while and significantly reduced energy consumption. Also importantly, the technology is designed for use within the existing solvent gas scrubbing architecture for plant retrofit. The net result is in essence an ‘industrial lung’ for carbon capture.
Cool Planet was founded in 2009 to commercialize a groundbreaking process that produces Engineered Biocarbon™ technology and renewable, carbon negative fuel from biomass.
Cool Planet is addressing three of the world’s largest markets: food, water and energy. Currently we are commercializing Cool Terra® products, Engineered Biocarbon™ technology that helps to improve soil health, as well as Cool Fauna™ for use in animal health and nutrition.
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Making solar fuels viable through efficient utilization and even distribution of sunlight in scalable reactor forms with novel, functionalized catalysts.
We are a Swedish biochar innovation company leading the biochar revolution by providing technologies, knowledge and tools enabling sustainable small-scale and urban agriculture including carbon capture through sustainable biochar systems. We are focused on removing surplus carbon from the atmosphere by carbon sequestration and soil enhancement through the use of biochar. With our partners, we provide a full platform for biochar carbon sequestration using designer biochar from pelletized agro-residue blends with full traceability from the source and content. The carbon sequestered is sold as voluntary carbon sink offsets. For a truly circular economy where Carbon Negative means Climate Positive™.
Formed in 2010, Global Thermostat (GT) is commercializing its advanced, multi-patented technology to transform Carbon Dioxide from a global liability into an immense profit center.
Using its proven, breakthrough technology, GT economically captures and concentrates CO2, enabling its profitable re-use across multiple large & growing industries – reducing harmful emissions, and helping to close the global carbon cycle.
During the three-year research project CO2MIN, HeidelbergCement and RWTH Aachen University will explore the absorption of CO2 from flue gas by the minerals olivine and basalt. In the future, the carbonised minerals could be used as a value-added additive in the production of building materials. HeidelbergCement and RWTH are supported by the Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and the Dutch start-up Green Minerals.
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We convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into drop-in liquid fuels by adding carbon from biomass and hydrogen from methane and using process energy from biomass.
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Our approach borrows from what occurs naturally, namely photosynthesis. By utilizing the enzymes within plants, we are able convert atmospheric carbon dioxide to innocuous sugars by capturing a small amount of sunlight as an energy source, which is required to regenerate the consumable cycle cofactors ATP and NADH. If needed, a solar rechargeable battery could be used to produce enough light to run the reactor in the dark or at night and operate the control systems. The system is extremely environmentally friendly. All of the naturally occurring proteins used to run the reactor are produced by bacteria using recombinant DNA technology and are all biodegradable. The substrates we are currently using for immobilization are made of silicon dioxide or sand. Everything is self-contained, the same way it is within the leaf of a plant, and like plants there are no hazardous waste materials produced. By adapting the cycle, we further hope to convert these sugars to other chemicals with alternative industrial applications.
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Our proprietary CO2 capture technologies employ an issued utility patented, unprecedented mechanism to separate CO2 from power plant flue gas. The process introduced in our ACS peer-reviewed paper requires 75% less energy than existing CO2 capture processes. Our confidential CO2 capture technology, CO2 Evolution™, is the first entirely powered by discarded, abundant low temperature waste heat with a temperature as low as 28 degrees celsius and has 90% lower operating cost than existing CO2 capture processes.
Jupiter Oxygen Corporation is an Illinois-based energy technology company, which has pioneered and patented combustion processes. Jupiter’s high flame temperature oxy-fuel technology results in significantly more efficient, economical and environmentally-compliant operations, which are not merely competitive but superior to other alternatives.
At Kiverdi, we are commercializing a technology that uses a special class of chemoautotrophic microbes, we call them nature's Super Charged Carbon Recyclers, to transform carbon dioxide and other gases into protein, high-value oils, and bio-based products, which can be used in a variety of consumer and industrial applications. By recycling carbon dioxide, we are bridging the gap between sustainability and profitability, enabling a future of abundance.
LanzaTech is revolutionizing the way the world thinks about waste carbon by treating it as an opportunity instead of a liability. LanzaTech’s novel gas-to-liquid technology has opened up vast new sources for making low-carbon chemicals and fuels that displace petroleum without the environmental concerns associated with crop- and land-based bioproducts.
The Linde Group is a world leading supplier of industrial, process and speciality gases and is one of the most profitable engineering companies. Linde products and services can be found in nearly every industry, in more than 100 countries.
Mango Materials produces a naturally occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that is economically competitive with conventional oil-based materials. Mango Materials is a start-up with a first-class team of engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Mango Materials was incorporated in 2010 and received its first round of funding in 2011.
NET Power invented and is commercializing a novel power system that produces electricity from natural gas that is cost competitive with current technologies and generates zero atmospheric emissions – eliminating the smokestack altogether. This system is based on a new thermodynamic cycle, the Allam Cycle, named for its lead inventor, Rodney Allam.
Regarded as a breakthrough in power generation technology, the Allam Cycle uses a high-pressure, highly recuperative, oxyfuel, supercritical CO2 cycle that makes carbon capture part of the core power generation process, rather than an afterthought. The result is high-efficiency power generation that inherently produces a pipeline-quality CO2 byproduct at no cost to the system’s performance.
Newlight was founded in 2003 with a question: why can't we use greenhouse gas emissions as a resource to make materials?
After 10 years of research and development, Newlight has commercialized a carbon capture technology that combines air with methane-based greenhouse gas emissions to produce a plastic material called AirCarbon™: a material made from captured carbon that can match the performance of oil-based plastics and out-compete on price.
We have developed a device that recycles CO2 into chemicals and fuels.
Our technology bolts onto any source of CO2 emissions, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transforms that CO2 into some of the world's most critical chemical products. We can reduce the carbon footprint of the world’s heaviest emitters, while creating a new revenue stream from what is discarded today as a waste product.
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Pond Technologies was founded in Toronto, Canada on May 2007. Our mission is to use microalgae, the original superfood and the planet’s first carbon storage technology, to solve some of the largest problems facing the world today.
Pond is also a carbon capture company. Algae is the original carbon storage system – it is estimated that close to 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon are stored in the ocean’s surface waters by various algae species.
SkyMining first addresses the urgent problem of climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and using it to produce a clean replacement for oil and coal. For the same USD 2 trillion that was invested in wind & solar during the past decade, SkyMining could have produced enough carbon negative fuel to replace all coal use and 30% of all oil.
Our technological breakthrough produces fuel based on atmospheric carbon that is cheaper than fossil fuels, yet very profitable. Carbon in CO2 is available in sufficient quantities to replace the world's entire consumption of oil, gas and coal.
Our mission is to establish atmospheric CO2 use in everyday life. We hope to initiate a positive shift in people’s perception: from CO2 as a potential problem to CO2 as an essential and incredibly versatile resource.
Our founders met at the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2008 where they were working as system engineers on the life-support project for the International Space Station, studying what would ultimately become Skytree’s technology.
Today Skytree is self-sustainable and generates (licensing) revenue through co-development projects on useful & scalable products for leading companies within industry.
Currently in commercialization, Solidia’s systems are verified by leading independent industry laboratories. Produced with a non-hydraulic, lower-energy and lower-emission chemistry, Solidia Cement™ is more sustainable than ordinary Portland cement (OPC). Solidia Concrete™ cures with CO2 instead of water, sequestering CO2 by injecting it into concrete during the manufacturing process. By transforming CO2 into a usable element, it gives large- and small-scale concrete producers a competitive edge.
Developed by CHAR Technologies, SulfaCHAR™ is a cost-effective, convenient, zero-waste targeted gas cleaning solution for the growing three billion dollar global problem caused by toxic and corrosive hydrogen sulfide in the renewable natural gas industry. SulfaCHAR™ filters hydrogen sulfide out of renewable natural gas, allowing users to drastically reduce their maintenance costs.
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Tandem is a rapidly growing startup helping greenhouse gas emitters across multiple industries capture and convert pollution from a liability into an asset. It’s patented process recycles carbon into highly marketable mineral by-products such as calcium carbonate, used in products ranging from health supplements to paint, toothpaste, fertilizer and building materials. Tandem is benefiting from significant cross-sector partnership and collaboration to rapidly commercialize and scale its clean technology innovation, and meet an exploding global market demand while at the same time making a major impact on industrial pollution.
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TerraCOH is introducing into the market its proprietary Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Plume Geothermal - CPG™ technology, which is the first to use carbon dioxide as its geologic working fluid. TerraCOH’s systems enable dispatchable, scalable, baseloaded and negative emission power production – as well as high efficiency, affordable, small to grid-scale energy storage – and are particularly well-suited for to turn underproductive or uneconomic liabilities in hydrocarbon fields into clean energy assets.