Grants and Contributions:
Title:
300 t/y AdvEn Super Activated Carbon Commercial Demonstration Plant
Agreement Number:
1029445
Agreement Value:
$1,440,224.37
Agreement Date:
Mar 4, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Description:
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.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
The NRC-IRAP Clean Technology Program will support Canadian SMEs in the research and development of sustainable development technologies, up to their commercialization, with the potential to deliver economic and environmental outcomes.
Location:
Edmonton, Alberta, CA T6N 1E5
Reference Number:
172-2024-2025-Q4-1029445
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
2016359123
Recipient Type:
For-profit organization
Additional Information:
The end date of this agreement has been modified by 275 days.
Amendment Date
Jun 27, 2025
Recipient's Legal Name:
AdvEn Industries Inc.
Federal Riding Name:
Edmonton Mill Woods
Federal Riding Number:
48017
Program:
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Clean Technology
Program Purpose:
The NRC-IRAP Clean Technology Program will support Canadian SMEs in the research and development of sustainable development technologies, up to their commercialization, with the potential to deliver economic and environmental outcomes.
Coverage:
NRC-IRAP Clean Technology projects stimulate wealth creation for Canada through sustainable development technological innovation, while improving Canada’s environmental indicators related to greenhouse gas emissions (GCG), waste management, air quality or drinking water based on the types of sustainable development technologies that will be supported.│Les projets de technologies propres du PARI-CNRC stimulent la création de richesse pour le Canada grâce à l’innovation technologique en matière de développement durable, tout en améliorant les indicateurs environnementaux du Canada liés aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES), à la gestion des déchets, à la qualité de l’air ou à l’eau potable en fonction des types de technologies de développement durable qui seront soutenues.
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