Prometheus Materials awarded role in US$10 million Department of Energy grant for carbon dioxide removal in cement and concrete

Through this initiative, the company expands its role as a leader in the decarbonisation of cement and concrete – which currently accounts for 8% of the world's annual CO₂ emissions, pumping 11 million t of CO₂ into the atmosphere every day.

Prometheus Materials, with funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Technology Commercialisation Fund administered by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), will collaborate with the project team to:

• Advance technical capabilities, adapting and refining state-of-the-art techniques to measure carbon dioxide removal and accelerate new tools for CDR toward market readiness.
• Quantify net-carbon removed, establishing robust frameworks for cradle-to-grave life-cycle analysis. Improve access to and understanding of the data-driven models produced by developing user-friendly, interactive software for operation of measurement equipment and data analysis.
• Facilitate market transformation and build bankability via techno-economic analysis and workforce development, while also actively engaging with impacted communities, especially disadvantaged communities, to identify and work toward positive impacts of new technologies.
• While these objectives have far-reaching applicability across the CDR industry and beyond, this critical project will utilise them to assess carbon-negative cement curing, mineralisation for carbon-negative materials from waste and supplementary cementitious materials.

"We are honoured to collaborate with the DOE, NREL, ORNL, LLNL and this project's other esteemed partners on this essential mission to enhance the innovation and impact of CO₂ removal," said Prometheus Materials' President, CEO and Co-founder, Loren Burnett. "This DOE initiative will advance CDR solutions toward wider-scale commercialisation, benefitting both the business world and – most importantly – the climate of our shared world," added Burnett.

Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/the-americas/08112024/prometheus-materials-awarded-role-in-us10-million-department-of-energy-grant-for-carbon-dioxide-removal-in-cement-and-concrete/