Ontario Construction News staff writer
Lafarge Canada Inc. and Canadian carbon technology innovator Hyperion Global Energy Corp. have announced the launch of Hyperion’s patented Tandem Carbon Recycling System pilot to capture and transform carbon emissions into high-performance mineral components used to make sustainable building solutions such as low-carbon concrete and other materials.
“Our collaboration with Hyperion marks an exciting milestone in our decarbonization journey and the advancement of our circular construction technologies,” David Redfern, Lafarge (Eastern Canada)’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “We look forward to advancing our Net Zero strategy by leveraging carbon utilization technology like Hyperion’s, enabling us to further reduce CO2 emissions from our operations while at the same time producing innovative and sustainable building solutions.”
The pilot project, currently underway at Lafarge’s Bath Cement Plant in Ontario, involves the testing of Hyperion’s net-zero mineral solutions for advanced concrete such as Lafarge’s ECOPact, the broadest range of low-carbon concrete globally, which can lower embedded carbon between 30-90 per cent compared to standard concrete without any compromise in performance.
The effort will further develop and scale Hyperion’s proprietary Tandem Carbon Recycling© technology, a drop-in system that captures and transforms waste carbon emissions into high purity minerals that permanently store carbon. Currently, the process achieves up to 98 per cent capture efficiency of carbon dioxide emissions, producing innovative mineral components that enhance the density and strength of concrete, among other industrial uses.
“Working together with an innovative partner like Lafarge on this exciting pilot project allows us to apply our proprietary carbon recycling technology to large-scale industries, and make an immediate, measurable reduction on carbon emissions,” said Heather Ward, CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperion. “At the same time, we are advancing our vision to offer a scalable and affordable decarbonization solution for industry, and a market-driven profit incentive on the cost of carbon removal.”
The pilot currently has the capacity to remove up to 1,000t CO2/year from plant operations, with potential to scale the system 10X over the next year. This represents a 500 per cent scale-up of Hyperion’s novel technology since its original prototype as part of the global Carbon XPRIZE competition.
The current system was fully manufactured in Ontario, working with local suppliers and trades, along with Hyperion’s team of skilled industrial engineers.