Sources: Coolbrook Oy, Helsinki; CMCM staff Coolbrook reports success in the first phase of large-scale pilot RotoDynamic Heater (RDH) pilot tests, attaining a level of 1,000°C on a pathway toward a 1,700°C threshold equal to decarbonizing high-temperature iron, steel and cement processes by replacing fossil fuel combustion with electricity. With Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff Third-party testing confirms that Sublime Systems’ namesake concrete binder, produced with sharply lower carbon dioxide emissions metrics than portland cement, exhibits strength development, durability, low shrinkage and other engineering properties matching or exceeding ASTM C1157, Standard Performance Specification for Hydraulic Cement benchmarks. In Read more…
Sources: Heidelberg Materials North America, Irving, Texas; CMCM staff Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has installed a compact carbon dioxide pilot capture system, CO2MPACT, at Heidelberg Materials’ Edmonton cement plant. The pilot leverages the MHI Advanced KM CDR Process; supports testing of different fuel sources and various plant operating modes; Read more…
Sources: California Nevada Cement Association, Anaheim Hills, Calif.; CMCM staff Just shy of 30 months since releasing “Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the California Cement Industry,” California Nevada Cement Association (CNCA) producers report considerable progress on related public policy, material processing and market development measures toward their 2045 goal: • Leadership in Read more…
Sources: Votorantim Cimentos, São Paulo; CMCM staff Votorantim Cimentos is the latest multinational cement, aggregate and concrete producer to use a sustainability-linked financing instrument, whereby repayment terms partly hinge on the extent to which a target capital investment lowers a plant operation’s current carbon dioxide emissions levels. A key operator Read more…
Sources: CarbonCure Technologies, Halifax, Nova Scotia; CP staf CarbonCure Technologies, developer of a widely deployed process for mineralizing and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide in concrete, has announced a major investment by Blue Earth Capital of Switzerland, part of a broader collaborative funding round exceeding $80 million. Funding round participants include Read more…
Sources: U.S. Department of Energy; CMCM staff Five new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-backed projects focus on next-generation cement formulations and process routes, plus carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies to address cement plant emissions. The projects and their public or private administrators are: • Accelerated Decarbonization of Cement via Read more…
Sources: Heidelberg Materials North America, Irving, Texas; CMCM staff A Heidelberg Materials and Government of Canada memorandum of understanding will support development of a full scale carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) facility at the company’s Edmonton cement plant. With projected annual capacity exceeding 1 million tonnes, the facility will Read more…
Sources: CarbonBuilt, Los Angeles; CMCM staff Arizona concrete masonry producer Block-Lite, plus partners CarbonBuilt and Aircapture, plan to develop the world’s first fully-integrated direct air capture (DAC)-to-concrete assembly. CarbonBuilt will install carbon dioxide curing and mineralizing equipment at the Flagstaff operation, tapping an array of modular Aircapture DAC devices engineered Read more…
Sources: CRH Ventures, Dublin; CMCM staff Ash Grove Cement plans to install a series of Carbon Upcycling reactors engineered to convert carbon dioxide, industrial byproduct and secondary mineral feeds to concrete-grade cementitious materials. A top five North American cement operator, Ash Grove will inaugurate the technology at it Mississauga plant Read more…