JLM HAS A MAJOR FOCUS ON BIO- PLANT-BASED AND UPCYCLE MATERIAL
Plant-based renewable raw materials are obtained from agriculture and forestry. The most common raw materials, such as sugars, cellulose, and oils, can produce an almost infinite range of products. Plant-based raw materials have so many advantages over fossil feedstock. We have a global dependence on fossil fuels that is hard to break. Petrochemicals, derived from fossil fuels, are used in everyday products. When you reach for a plastic cup or put on spandex clothing, you are wearing items made from petrochemicals. Using petrochemicals in everyday products has an enormous impact on our environment. The manufacturing process creates greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and pollution. However, there are better and more sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals that manufacturers can use to make everyday products.
Sustainable Alternatives to Petrochemicals – Most of the materials that make up the world we live in come from derivatives of crude oil, coal, or natural gas. Industries depend on refining these fossil fuels to make petrochemicals, so they can be used as chemicals to manufacture other products. The environmental footprint of all manufacturing is enormous. There are new developing technologies to enable a more sustainable future for everyday products by making some of the same materials from renewable and sustainable sources.
Recycle material: The success of recycling—indeed, its true value in the long term—won’t depend on how much landfill space is saved but on whether or not recycling makes economic sense. To build demand for recycled materials, governments and businesses must not only reinvent themselves, they must also reinvent their relationship, especially when it comes to economic problems that neither can solve alone. Recyclable materials are used or old materials that can be used to make some other materials. they are called recyclable materials because they can be recycled. They are capable of being used to make similar products. For instance, office paper can be used to make toilet paper. Hence, we can say office papers are recyclables.
Clean energy technology generates energy using a variety of energy-efficient technologies that is both sustainable and infinite, such as the sun or wind. These technologies are considered an alternative to energy sources that are not as non-sustainable as the most widely utilised non-sustainable sources, such as coal. To generate power, hydroelectric technology uses the flow of water from rivers, streams, and lakes. Water is used less visibly through municipal pipelines in towns and cities. With so much water flowing through pipes in houses daily, there is a push to capture this energy to fulfil household and other power demands. The usage of municipal water is becoming more common as generators grow smaller and less expensive to construct. Wind power technology connects a windmill to a generator, which converts the rotation of the windmill blades into electricity. This energy has been used to grind grain, pump water, and perform other mechanical chores for ages, but it is currently being utilised more frequently to generate electricity. Heat waste recovery to convert electric power has a gained market share as economics are in-line.
GEo40
New Zealand
Geo40 has developed innovative world-leading technology for the recovery of strategic minerals from geothermal brines. A sustainable future relies upon sustainable sources of future minerals; recovering silica from geothermal fluid opens up new opportunities in the geothermal ecosystem.
-Our world-first, commercial Northern Plant processes 6,700 tonnes of geothermal fluid per day and will recover up to 5,000 tonnes per annum of colloidal silica from New Zealand geothermal brine.
-The carbon footprint of our sustainably sourced colloidal silica is typically under 200kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per metric ton of 30wt% product, across Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon dioxide emissions.
-While we can readily displace existing colloidal silicas, we are particularly motivated by markets where our silica can displace environmentally unsustainable alternatives, such as polymers, which invariably end up in waterways.
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CTI
Madison, WI
CTI BIO Sugar Carbon as Anode Battery Material
As the primary material used for battery anodes, regardless of which cathode chemistry is chosen, graphite is a vital mineral required to support the growth of the battery market.CTI has a solution - Sugar to carbon or graphite is more “ adjusting “ oxygen levels to meet specifications. Here is some information on a family of novel carbon micro-powder materials developed at the lab scale. These patent pending materials are derived from natural sugars (e.g. fructose, glucose, sucrose, etc.) by a simple, readily scalable process at a meagre projected cost. Importantly, they provide a sustainable zero net carbon source. Based on their range of properties, they should be able to serve as a low-cost, carbon-neutral substitute for petroleum-based carbon black powders used in tires, seals, glass bonding, adhesives in windshields or windows and coatings etc. The original design is graphite with very high purity, and test results should be available within a few weeks. CTI Consulting, LLC, has reserved a registered trademark on these powders under the name: “Curvite”. OEMs are figuring out how to classify it, view it, and use it… graphite?,high-purity hard carbon, or something in between (hybrid). We believe Curvite is different from any other carbon material invented or discovered. They have all kinds of preconceptions based on existing carbon experience, but Curvite is breaking the rules.
Curvite bio-sugar carbon powders do not directly compete with any kind of polymer, either petroleum-based or plant-based. Instead, they provide a zero net carbon, low-cost, plant-based alternative to petroleum-based carbon powers in a wide range of potential applications. In many applications, Curvite carbon powders would replace current commercial carbon powders as fillers in various polymers. Many polymers use carbon fillers to achieve their performance properties for multiple applications. Any manufacturer that produces products containing a polymer with a carbon powder filler would like to make both the polymer and the filler as environmentally friendly as possible.
Curvite carbon powders would directly compete with other carbon powders, such as carbon blacks, graphites, and activated carbons, while providing essential advantages versus all of those, such as carbon neutral, low cost and better performance at lower loading. Most of the carbon powers on the market today, such as carbon blacks, are made from petroleum whereas Curvite powders have the big advantage of being plant-based and carbon neutral. Of course, there are many commercially available plant-based carbon powders, such as the so-called activated carbons. These generally come from the woody parts of various plants, so they are carbon neutral, but they are relatively complicated to make and expensive compared to Curvite projected cost. Also, the latter, plant-based, activated carbons, have complex 3-D structures and high surface areas, making them better suited for applications as battery anodes.
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GREEN DISTILLATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
Level 1, 429-439 Toorak RoadToorak, Victoria, 3142 | Australia www.gdtc6.com
GDTC a clean tech company is a developer of up-cycling technologies to process carbon black from end-of-life tires and add one additional process to convert graphite / graphene
Today virgin carbon black manufacturing process creates a lot of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter. Its production is classified by the EPA as one of the top five most polluting industries in the nation. 3.2 billion pounds of carbon black, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, enters our world every year. The U.S. imports 1.5 billion pounds of that annually. At the same time, the U.S. disposes of about 350 million tires each year, with most of those being incinerated for fuel or tossed into landfills.
https://www.tyreandrubberrecycling.com/latest-news/posts/2020/january/gdt-signs-us-deal/
GDTC is in the process of commercialising an innovative technology (recognised by an Edison award in 2015) for the recycling of one of the world’s major waste problems, end of life tyres. When we started this journey a bit over 10 years ago, none was interested. Now Tyres are at the top of every Government’s list of problem wastes but the market is not keeping up with the need to use the products of recycling. Pyrolysis is the most common alternative method but they have to focus on getting serious money for their carbon product (>USD1000/tonne) because they must pay for the feedstock, they have no steel to sell and their liquid hydrocarbon is of poor quality and low value. Our process is different than any other tire recycle facility for a number of reason but primary raw carbon black has substain real value material from ELT
The GDTC Destructive Distillation process is different in a number of ways, even though it is derived from pyrolysis technology. For the purposes of our discussion we are able to deliver the recovered carbon black (rCB) at a much lower price point for the simple reason that
we use whole tyres so they are a revenue source through the tipping fee
we have steel to sell because we use whole tyres
the liquid hydrocarbon is classfied as “fuel Oil”, 70% within the diesel range so simply refined into a diesel substitute or blend.
ringing a ’new’ product to market can be difficult. Although carbon black is the most widely used industrial chemical in the world, its uses have been developed from its characteristics.
Pyrolysis involves burning tires in a low-oxygen environment, which creates an oil that’s very useful for a range of industrial processes. But it also produces a solid carbon residue that’s been harder to find new life ( very difficult ) . A number of researchers found that this tire-derived carbon black was a great candidate for producing flash graphene. When they put the material through flash Joule heating, some 70 percent of it was converted into graphene, while a mixture of shredded tire rubber and commercial carbon black yielded around 47 percent.
Next, the team demonstrated a particular use case for the new graphene material – concrete production. They added 0.1 weight/percent (wt%) for the graphene produced from tire carbon black, and 0.05 wt% for the mixture of carbon black and shredded rubber into Portland cement. They found that concrete cylinders made with this cement showed around 30 percent better compressive strength than concrete made without the graphene additive.
“This increase in strength is in part due to a seeding effect of 2D graphene for better growth of cement hydrate products, and in part due to a reinforcing effect at later stages,” says Rouzbeh Shahsavari, co-lead author of the study.
A diagram demonstrating how graphene can be produced through flash Joule heating
GDTC Graphite needs more development to receive higher purities
Graphene purity might be enough for a number vertical markets with some “ cleaning up” . Our interest is in being able to continue to provide a solution to the growing problem of end of life tyres and doing so in a way that benefits other industries in the circular economy.
Our product has some very basic shortcomings
Particle size
Ash content
Volatile content
Surface area
Silicon
We are searching for partner that understand nots perfected at this stage and willing work out a “ purification’' solution to meet specification . Today collaboration agreement for new raw material that is sustainable has become the norm.
goodyear letter of support
GDTC Product Development
Green Distillation Technologies has funding for tire recycling plants in U.S.
destructive distillation process
GDT Signs US Deal
GDTC signs an agreement with Sparatech
Market Trends
A new genre of tires: Call 'em 'sweet' and 'green'
Motorists may be driving on the world's first "green" tires within the next few years, as partnerships between tire companies and new plant base material development from CTi make it possible to produce key raw materials for tires from sugar rather than petroleum or rubber trees. Those new bio-based tires —
Today tight supplies and high prices for the natural rubber and synthetic rubber used to make tires — almost 1 billion annually worldwide —are fostering the drive toward renewable, sustainable sources for raw materials. Petroleum, for instance, is the traditional source for raw materials needed to make tires, with a single tire requiring almost 7 gallons of oil. But changes in oil-refining practices have reduced supplies of those raw materials. Companies hope sugar will buffer them against future shortages of natural and synthetic ingredients, with "sweet" tires making a debut within 2023. The world’s first “green” tires by revolutionary new technology that produces a key tire ingredient from renewable feedstocks rather than petroleum-derived feedstocks. The technology stands to reduce the tire industry’s reliance on crude oil — seven gallons of which now go into each of the approximately one billion tires produced each year worldwide. The process can use sugars derived from sugar cane, corn, corn cobs, switchgrass or other biomass to produce the ingredient, as alternatives to toxic carbon black grade materials.
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