This is a steel blast furnace with carbon emissions
IROX recycles dirty carbon emissions for chemical manufacturing
Join us in turning waste into wealth
"People hear carbon monoxide and think it's scary, but this gas is really a gold mine for chemical manufacturing"
- Prof. David Dunand, IROX Co-Founder
We all know there is too much carbon dioxide in the air and it’s causing global problems.
The grand challenge is to capture dirty carbon dioxide and make a viable business from it.
IROX both captures and purifies raw carbon emissions to transform them into a more valuable product and essential manufacturing gas, carbon monoxide.
"So many industries need carbon monoxide to make your everyday essentials such as textiles and fuel, and we can make it from carbon dioxide which is currently being dumped into the sky because it’s too costly to collect"
Technology: Alloy Greatly Increases Reactor Lifetime
IROX has developed a super durable, affordable iron alloy powder, capable of functioning much longer than competing technologies, illustrated in the plot above.
IROX has two value propositions:
(i) purify raw, contaminated flue gases
(ii) convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into the valuable chemical feedstock, carbon monoxide (CO).
Our fully electric process is decoupled in its two stages (gas capture + conversion and alloy recovery stages), so electricity is used only when its price is lowest.
Current Scale: As Big as a Research Laboratory can Handle
The IROX technology is currently derisking at the benchtop scale (kilograms of IROX alloy powder, shown here).
We need funding to build a pilot reactor (1 ton of powder) with a partner company.
IROX: A more economical, more reliable, and more sustainable process
We're Cost-Competitive at Scale
A full technoeconomic analysis, developed by Burk Technoeconomics, predicts a lower levelized cost of carbon monoxide against one incumbent technology, the Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS).
Specific Power Consumption
6 kWh / Nm3 CO
- from real flue gas input (~20 % CO2 ).
- competitive with the solid-oxide electrolysis technology (incumbent).
Want to Help Us Change the World?
We are seeking a $500k investment to build a pilot reactor in collaboration with an electrochemical reduction company and CO2 emitter. Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating!