Innovation Anthology #741:
Carbon Upcycling Technologies is a Calgary company which is developing new technologies to capture waste carbon dioxide and turn it into a valuable products.
In the case of Carbon Upcycling, the process converts graphite to graphene, and the end product is nano particles that can be used in coatings, polymers and concrete.
Apoorv Sinha is the company’s founder and president.
APOORV SINHA: It takes a low value product like CO2 and low grade carbon really, like coal and fly ash. And what happens in our reactor is the CO2 gas actually punctures holes through the carbon and it activates the carbon as well. It creates a very volatile environment where the surface area of the carbon gets exposed. And at the end of it we also get that CO2 bonding to the surface of that solid carbon. So the process not only creates this high surface area of nanoparticles which in some cases would be single layered, which would then be considered graphene, but could also have carboxyl groups on it. And that means overall when you look at the whole energy balance around our process, we capture more CO2 than we use as energy.
Apoorv Sinha says Carbon Upcycling’s process will significantly reduce the cost of producing nanoparticles.
Thanks today to THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2015-12-17