{"id":2048,"date":"2016-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-798\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:45:39","slug":"innovation-anthology-798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/07\/28\/innovation-anthology-798\/","title":{"rendered":"#798: CCEMC Grand Challenge: UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have come up with a new technology that solves two problems at the same time.<\/p>\n

It converts carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions into useful products, and it treats wastewater by taking the salts out of the water.<\/p>\n

This is one of 24 projects funded through Alberta’s Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge.<\/p>\n

Dr. David Wilkinson outlines the technology.<\/p>\n

DR DAVID WILKINSON:  <\/span>We take a stream of carbon dioxide, either it’s industrial or low concentration CO2<\/span>, and brine, and we combine that to produce a clean water stream, a desalinated stream, remove the carbon dioxide and produce chemicals that can be useful, for example, in the oil and gas industry. One of the advantages of the technology is that it is very modular so it can be scaled easily and it can be mobile as well but it would be something that would be added to another industrial plant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. David Wilkinson says this carbon conversion technology can be used in very remote locations and it addresses the global freshwater crisis.

Thanks today to the <\/span>Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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