A new three-way joint venture to convert waste carbon dioxide into bricks has been announced at Australia’s University of Newcastle.
The $9m facility is to be set up between clean tech firm the GreenMag Group, chemical producer Orica, and the University’s tech transfer unit Newcastle Innovation, with funding provided by the Australian government and Orica.
The trial facility will be utilising research originally conducted by a team made up from the University’s Priority Research Centre and Orica, which have demonstrated the technology on a small scale.
Professor Bodgan Dlugogorski, one of the Newcastle researchers on the team, said: “The key difference between geosequestration and ocean storage and our mineral carbonation model is we permanently transform CO2 into a usable product, not simply store it underground.”
