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It’s not just curbing greenhouse gas emissions with cutting edge technologies in the clean energy field. The Fredericton-based company may soon be swimming in cold hard cash.
The commercial success of Atlantic Hydrogen rests on determining the potential uses of the carbon captured from their CarbonSaver technology.
The company has joined forces with the University of New Brunswick to determine the value of the pure carbon extracted from natural gas.
William Stanley, chairman and co-founder of Atlantic Hydrogen, says the question customers always ask is about the potential applications of the carbon produced.
“Companies are interested our technology,” he says. “But they need to know what’s in it for them.”
Given that CarbonSaver could process 1,500 cubic metres of natural gas per hour and generate more than a tonne of pure carbon in a week, he says much of the company’s success depends on what customers can do with the carbon.
Felipe Chibante, the Richard J. Currie chair of nanotechnology at the faculty of engineering at UNB, will lead a team of researchers to determine the carbon’s value and possible uses.
“Our task is to find out where it fits in the matrix of all carbons,” he says during an interview. Depending on the quality of the carbon, it can be used for everything from the most mundane of uses like tires to “very exotic and esoteric things like nanotubes and buckyballs.”
Chibante will determine the intrinsic value of the carbon extracted from natural gas, which resembles black photocopier toner.
The research, he says, is right up his alley.
“We’re like pieces of Lego,” he says describing the relationship between his research interests at UNB and Atlantic Hydrogen. “It’s not an offshoot or something completely different “
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