Burnco, Lafarge Canada team with Carbon Upcycling on $11M ash project

Sources: Carbon Upcycling, Calgary; CP staff Carbon dioxide utilization technology and supplementary cementitious material developer Carbon Upcycling has enlisted Alberta neighbors Burnco Rock Products and Lafarge Canada for testing a process to covert landfilled coal combustion residuals to concrete-grade fly ash. Beyond the CCR harvesting aspect, the process sequesters CO2 gas. Of the project’s $11 million budget, Emissions Reduction Alberta…

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Carbon Upcycling joins low-carbon concrete schedule at MnRoad demonstration

Sources: Carbon Upcycling, Calgary; CP staff Carbon Upcycling has supplied its CO2-Enhanced Fly Ash as part of a National Road Research Alliance (NRRA) placement of 14 concrete pavement mixtures at the Minnesota Road Research Facility (MnRoad), located along Interstate 94 north of the Twin Cities. Along with the Carbon Upcycling product, the mixtures use a variety of materials to lower…

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Multinational cement players team to back six carbon management consortia

Sources: Global Cement and Concrete Association, London; CP staff An unprecedented research, development and commercialization project under the Global Cement and Concrete Association aligns multinational producers and proprietors of technologies aimed at streamlining or capturing and utilizing carbon dioxide emissions from cement plants or other major industrial sources. The project teams permutations of major European, Latin American and Asian cement…

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