THE FUTURE OF
CEMENT
CRISIS
The Most Abundantly Used Man Made Material Is Inflicting Our Planet
Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Climate impacts are already harming health, through air pollution, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, pressures on mental health, and increased hunger and poor nutrition in places where people cannot grow or find sufficient food.
CAUSE
Cement Adds 2.5 Billion Tonnes of CO2 into the Atmosphere Every Year
THE PROCESS
From Cradle to Gate the Process of Quarrying Limestone and turning it into Cement contributes over 900kgs of CO2 for every Tonne of Cement produced
INADEQUATE SOLUTIONS
Numerous Technologies from Decades of Research hasn't Provided a True Solution
From Carbon Capture, to Novel Cements, none have found a cost effective way for the Cement Industry to reach it's Net Zero Goals.
ALTERNATIVE
NOVEL CEMENTS
Bio Cements and AACM's have been developed for decades but haven't had widespread adoption due to:
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Inadequate and decreasing volumes of SCM’s Cement 11.7mt vs SCM 3.4mt
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Slower strength gain
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Not in the British Standards
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No long term Durability Testing
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Far more expensive
ALTERNATIVE
CCUS & H2
CCUS have significant hurdles to overcome before they can make a meaningful change:
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Significant CapEx
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Energy Intensive
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Time to Build Infrastructure
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Costly Transport
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Leakages
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High Cost of Green Hydrogen
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Low commercial volume of Green H2
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Costly Transport
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3-400kgs of hydrogen per hour required for the Kiln
VISION
We’re Changing the Way the World Sources It's Materials for Cement
‘Nature can provide solutions to the challenges our planet is facing, one such solution is ethiCa harnessing a process that removes carbon from the Ocean and speeding it up by roughly a million years.’
WHY ethiCa
A Different Approach, using a New Method of Capture
ethiCa's New Infrastructure is a bolt on to Existing Cement Plants that enables the Industry to Produce and Deliver Carbon Neutral Cement sooner than the alternatives.
It doesn't rely on new purpose built infrastructure, and the cement produced still complies to existing standards.
ethiCa
A Batch In Numbers
10 tonne
CEMENT
420 kg
O2
180 kg
HYDROGEN
0
CO2
ALL GENERATED BY THE SYSTEM INPUT OF 8MW OF GREEN ENERGY AND SEAWATER
