Grants and Contributions

Most cities generate more organic waste than they can process, leaving it to rot in landfills and generate greenhouse gases. Anaconda’s technology offers an affordable and sustainable organic waste infrastructure solution that takes food waste and converts it to organic fertilizer - all in under 10 days. Plus, our process is low odor so organic waste can be processed close to its source.

Aurora Hydrogen is developing a technology that uses efficient microwave energy to heat natural gas in the absence of oxygen and water (pyrolysis) to produce hydrogen and solid carbon while avoiding the generation of CO2. The technology is highly scalable and modular, units can be installed anywhere there is natural gas and electricity, and the process consumes no water. Hydrogen production using Aurora's technology has the potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 900 million tonnes per year.

Axine Water Technologies is developing a next generation electrochemical oxidation system for on-site treatment of toxic, non-biodegradable pharmaceutical pollutants in manufacturing wastewater to drive scale-up and growth in international markets. This new system will combine advances in material science and hardware design with digital automation, data analytics and machine learning to provide a step change improvement in efficiency, performance, verification, automation and cost reduction.

For over ninety years, Béton Brunet has been offering high-quality products for the construction of municipal, commercial and industrial infrastructures. Our stormwater management division rigorously develops and manufactures products for controlling the quality of stormwater runoff and managing additional volumes. It relies on a multidisciplinary team of researchers and professionals in hydraulics, planning and the environment.

With the support of SDTC, Béton Brunet will offer the first commercial solution for integrated stormwater management to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of runoff water, while reducing heat islands and the impacts of climate change on communities.

BioAlert Solutions provides facility owners and managers with a reliable, effective and sustainable solution to the threat of Legionella contamination in their cooling towers and other hot water systems. The company has developed an automated industrial device for detecting legionella in water. This enables continuous monitoring of bacteria levels, which in turn enables facility owners and managers to be proactive in the treatment of their water systems, and to have unrivalled peace of mind in the face of the threat posed by a Legionella epidemic.

Thanks to our technology, our customers are able to limit water discharges linked to excessively high levels of legionella, and they can administer adequate quantities of chemicals in their water, enabling them to make substantial savings and limit their environmental impact.

The project undertaken with SDTC enables the large-scale deployment of our technology, which supports our scientific approach, as we will have access to a quantity and quality of data that we would not otherwise have been able to obtain. This partnership gives us the opportunity to improve our offering and document the economic and environmental impact of our solution.

AdvEn has developed a proprietary recipe and production process for high-performance activated carbon trademarked “ASAC” (AdvEn Super Activated Carbon). It has record-breaking performance characteristics coupled with competitive cost efficiency, compared to current leading commercial products. It has many applications, the immediate of which is to build energy storage device such as supercapacitors (SCs). In 2011, Elon Musk predicted that “SCs, not batteries, would be the breakthrough for EVs (Electric Vehicles)”.
Our pilot plant has been operational for 4 years, producing ASAC at an equivalent annual capacity of 5 to 10 tons, from asphaltenes and refinery residues (LC Finer Bottom – by-products from bitumen’s partial upgrading), agricultural wastes, plastic wastes and even raw bitumen. In the current project, AdvEn seeks government support to build its first commercial demo plant with a capacity of 300 tons/year.
The ASAC technology is the most sustainable method to produce high end AC. It has a greatly reduced GHG footprint and has much lower overall energy intensity. Specifically the benefits results from: (1) no direct CO2 emission; (2) reduced production temperatures and elimination of highly hazardous strong acids/base that are typically used in all other AC manufacturing processes today; (3) reduced pollutant generation and GHG emission by capturing and utilizing hydrocarbon by-products/residues, scrubbing residual emissions and recycling process chemicals and water.

Our novel technology platform unlocks new advances in strength and durability for cement replacements. By permanently storing CO2 in industrial byproducts and natural materials—from coal plants, glass manufacturing, mine sites, and more—we are improving performance and lower emissions. We work directly with cement and concrete producers to utilize the CO2 they’re already capturing onsite for our processes. We also reduce second-order CO2 emissions by removing the need to import expensive SCM feedstocks from overseas and we use local wastes instead, such as steel slag. Carbon Upcycling’s SCMs decrease the amount of cement used in the production of concrete by up to 20%.

Specifically, in this project we will deploy our 50 tonne per day reactor with the goal to scale up to a 200 tonne per day reactor which utilizes waste steel slag, and CO2 emissions for permanent storage. This creates a stronger and more durable supplementary cementitious material (SCM). SDTC’s support of this project will expedite Canada's cement and concrete industry on reaching their goal of being net-zero by 2050. With the support of SDTC we are well on our way to deploying at all 16 concrete plants in Canada which would result in a 39.4MT CO2e savings. The support of SDTC means a healthier and cleaner environment for all Canadians.

Carbonova Corp. is a technology company commercializing a chemical process that uses greenhouse gasses and natural gas as a feedstock to produce sustainable and economical carbon nanofibers.

Cascadia Seaweed aims to build a large-scale seaweed farm to deliver a sustainable agrifeed product.

This project will result in three key innovations:
1. Deploy a large-scale ocean farm in Canada to grow enough seaweed for a minimum viable agrifeed product
2. Cost effective, low energy, high throughput seaweed processing technologies
3. A tested sustainable agrifeed product

With access to high volumes of cost-effective seaweed, Canada is able to start addressing the increasing demand for raw material without reliance on foreign markets. Canada currently imports >90% of seaweed and the annual demand increases by ~8-14%. The project outcomes enable Canadian companies to be cost competitive with larger foreign markets while addressing climate change, food insecurity, and economic instability within Canada. Seaweed growth provides significant environmental benefits such as carbon capture and habitat creation, and these benefits scale-up with the amount of seaweed cultivated. There are additional benefits to utilizing the crop as an agrifeed solution; by increasing the resiliency of the livestock industry though a myriad of impacts, such as improved feed conversion ratio (5%), reduction of enteric methane (15%), and reduced reliance of land based crops for livestock feed. The improved feed conversion and improved product quality also make this solution economically viable by farmers.

Challenger Technical Service’s MCDIS project is designed to eliminate fugitive GHG emissions that occur on existing oil and gas wells. The system will offer a dramatic improvement in the success rate and lifetime of a gas migration repair by introducing new intervention equipment and methods. Two materials are injected separately into a leaking wellbore, where they react and form a permanent seal which blocks gas migration to surface. Challenger will deploy its technology with major Calgary based operators on existing wells across Alberta. The technology is projected to eliminate 35,102 tonnes of CO2e per year by the year 2030. Challenger has received funding from ERA along with assistance from PTAC and CanERIC to develop and commercialize the GHG reduction project.