Queens Carbon Set to Receive $14.5M Scaleup Funding to Pilot Its Breakthrough Carbon Neutral Cement Technology
26 Junio 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Government funding and commercial partnership to pilot Queens
Carbon’s low temperature technology that aims to lower carbon
emissions of the cement industry
Queens Carbon, a startup company developing a ground breaking
technology to eliminate CO2 emissions from the cement industry,
today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced
Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected the company
to receive $14.5M in funding as part of its Seeding Critical
Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential
(SCALEUP) program. Queens Carbon will use this funding to pilot its
novel low temperature, zero CO2 technology in partnership with a
commercial partner in the cement industry.
“We know that cement manufacturing requires innovative, scalable
solutions to overcome the environmental impacts and logistical
hurdles of traditional cement production. Queens Carbon is
committed to tackling these challenges,” said ARPA-E Director
Evelyn N. Wang. “Through SCALEUP, Queens Carbon will build on
prior work funded by ARPA-E and develop an integrated pilot
facility at an existing cement production site to produce
carbon-neutral materials in support of decarbonizing cement
production.”
Queens Carbon is developing an energy-efficient approach to
producing carbon-neutral supplemental cementitious materials (SCM)
from industry standard raw materials to enable an unlimited SCM
supply for an increasingly urbanized world. Queens Carbon’s Q-SCMs
are used to replace 20-50% of the high-CO2 binder used to produce
cement. The approach will meet the challenges of increasing demand
for cement with a scalable source of SCMs to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions of cement and concrete products while remaining cost
competitive. Queens Carbon plans to deploy a pilot plant capable of
producing 10 tonnes of SCMs daily.
The SCALEUP program supports the scaling of disruptive new
technologies across the full spectrum of energy and industrial
applications, ensuring that strategic U.S. innovations are
well-positioned for commercial deployment and investment from the
private sector. Queens Carbon’s project was selected by ARPA-E from
a highly competitive pool of industry applicants to support the
scaling of its breakthrough production process to lower the CO2
emissions of the cement industry.
“This SCALEUP grant is a tremendous step forward on our path to
commercialization,” said Daniel Kopp, CEO of Queens Carbon.
“Partnering with ARPA-E and a major cement industry player to
deploy, operate, and optimize our 10 tonnes per day pilot plant
will put us on an accelerated path to gigatonne-scale CO2
reductions”
To learn more about Queens Carbon, visit the website.
About Queens Carbon
Queens Carbon is building a sustainable future by eliminating
deep-rooted CO2 emissions in industrial manufacturing and beyond.
Queens’s patented hydrothermal process dramatically reduces the
energy needed to decompose carbonate minerals and allows for the
capture of all CO2 produced during the reaction. This low energy
solution for carbonate processing creates a commercially viable
path for carbon neutral cement production. At scale, this
technology will enable gigaton-scale reductions in industrial CO2
emissions via avoidance, capture, and production of carbon-neutral
cementitious products.
To learn more about Queens Carbon technology and explore career
opportunities, please visit https://www.queenscarbon.com/.
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Daniel Kopp, CEO Daniel@queenscarbon.com
David Gersholowitz, COO Dave@queenscarbon.com