Lafarge Flue Gas Challenge

Flue Gas Carbon Utilization in Urban Areas

Lafarge is Canada’s largest provider of sustainable construction materials and a member of the global group, LafargeHolcim. With 6,000 employees and 400 sites across Canada, their mission is to provide construction solutions that build better cities and communities.

Lafarge production ranges from cement and aggregates, to ready-mix and precast concrete as well as asphalt, paving and construction.

The Opportunity

Lafarge is looking for a list of technology options that could use the entire amount of carbon captured during cement making with 90%+ efficiency and a business case that allows purchase of the CO₂ at a positive dollar value.

Technology providers could then prove both the efficiency of their systems and the market for their end products at a pilot stage facility currently in development.

The Challenge

This challenge is looking at processes that could work in conjunction with the captured carbon from a cement process. It’s focused on the use of the largest practical volume of captured CO₂ by absorbent technology (defined by % purity, delivered at X temperature and Y humidity) to enable the best possible business case while using less than 20,000 sq.ft. for on-site processing.

This process must lead to a usable product with a positive economic benefit. This challenge is open to all conversion technologies be they electrochemical, photocatalyst or biological in nature.

The Details

Online Registration for the challenge webinar will be posted here and on Twitter. Follow @ForesightCAC for updates.

Following the webinar the recording will be posted online here.

After the challenge is launched there will be a three-week window for solutions.To submit your solution to this challenge complete this form:

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The deadline for solution submission will be posted here.