We are group of engineers and research professionals focused at developing and commercializing onboard technology to capture and convert CO₂ from exhaust gas thus reducing CO₂ emission from transportation sector.
We firmly believe that there is solution to every problem. Technologies take time to blossom and produce intended results. Substantial effort and time invested leads to the blossoming. To that end, we are continuously working towards developing the technology which can reduce human generated GHGs and slow down the global warming.
CO₂ emissions by maritime transportation is estimated to represents approximately 11% of global energy related CO₂ emissions. International Maritime Organization (IMO) targets reducing the carbon intensity of international shipping by at least 40% by 2030 and 70% by 2050, relative to the 2008 baseline. To comply with the IMO's targets for 2030 and beyond the company is working towards acquiring government funding to test a pilot technology which can capture and convert CO₂ to fuels, thereby, giving value to gas which otherwise would escape into atmosphere to be amongst the most long-lived GHG.
Light duty vehicles including passenger cars accounts to about 45% of global transportation-related CO₂ emissions in 2020 (Statista 2022). With increased purchasing power, passenger car CO₂ emissions almost doubled up since 2000, rising from 2.2 GtCO₂ in 2000 to 3.2 GtCO₂ in 2019. Although electrification of vehicles are happening which is a positive movement in the direction of mitigating climate crisis, by 2050, electric vehicles will still be only 60% of new sales in the United States (New York Times, 2021), majority of vehicles on the road would still run on gasoline. The main reason is suggested to be slow fleet turnover. All around the world, governments are focused on cleaner electric vehicles (EVs) to move towards zero emissions scenario. Yet, it could take years for complete fleet electrification mainly due to cheaper gasoline cars relative to initial purchase price of EVs and the long lifespan of an average gasoline car on road. Moreover, raw materials for batteries used in EVs including lithium and cobalt has been a concern. They are not scarce by itself however, chances of shortages and price swings are possible given slow scalability of mining and processing capacity. With that said, while these other long term measures towards zero emissions are needed and inevitable, our technology provides an interim solution for cleaner emission from gasoline engines which as noted above will continue to dominate our roads for years to come in several countries.
In this project, we are working on similar material and technology for carbon emission reduction from the tailpipes. The compact nature of our technology allows its retrofitting along the exhaust system for capture and conversion processes.
Methane poses about 25 times greater heat trapping capacity relative to CO₂ thus, presenting a high global warming potential. In 2021, EPA announced new Clean Air Act rule to sharply reduce the methane emissions from existing and new sources of oil and gas operations. The rule intends to reduce 41 million tons of methane emissions from 2023 to 2035, the equivalent of 920 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
In order to assist the Oil and Gas industry comply with the regulations, we are developing a compact, portable, low temperature electrolytic cell technology which could convert methane to liquid fuel onsite. Apart from environmental impetus, methane utilization for other chemical commodity provides economic incentive including high energy density relative to C1 compound, methane.
It is often a common scenario at the wellsite for methane emissions to occur. Several are due to unintended reasons e.g. pneumatic controller, equipment leakage however, emissions due to flaring and liquid unloading accounts high percentage of emissions. It is imperative that onsite solution is provided to help the industry comply with the EPA regulations.