Innovation Anthology #616:
Carbon Cycle Ltd from the United Kingdom has developed a novel technology to capture carbon dioxide. It will use it to produce structured calcium carbonate and fertilizer.
The process is carbon negative and saves energy. That’s why it will receive funding from the CCEMC Grand Challenge.
As Carbon Cycle’s director David Sevier explains, Alberta is the perfect place to commercialize its technology.
DAVID SEVIER: One of the things that we need is gypsum. It turns out that Alberta sits on a large strata of gypsum and you’ve got open mines that are nearby to you. So that’s one of our feedstock. You’ve got a number of ammonia plants. And you also have people who will use our products. You’ve got a paper industry that could use structured chalks. And right now when we talk to some of the people here, one of the things that’s holding them back a little bit is lack of access to our type of chalk. They spend too much money importing it. Locally produced chalks could mean you could trade up the food, as it were, the food chain to higher value products. You’ve got a huge farming industry that could use your fertilizers. Everything fits just perfectly.
David Sevier says Carbon Cycle will use the Grand Challenge funding to scale up its operation and design a commercial plant.
Thanks today to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
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I’m Cheryl Croucher
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Program Date: 2014-06-03