US: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded funding for two Leilac projects to conduct preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) studies, subject to final negotiations.
A project at Roanoke Cement Company in Virginia, led by Titan Group in partnership with Leilac, Amazon and Virginia Tech, received US$1.49m. It aims to capture over 500,000t/yr of CO₂ from cement Scope 1 emissions using Leilac’s technology.
A project at Mississippi Lime Company in St Louis, Missouri, in partnership with Leilac, Industrial Ally and Nuada, received US$1.5m. It seeks to achieve net-zero lime manufacturing by integrating Leilac’s CO₂ capture technology with Nuada’s carbon capture system for combustion emissions.
Calix CEO Phil Hodgson said “We look forward to concluding the grant agreements and developing these exciting projects that have the potential to demonstrate industry-leading solutions to produce both low-carbon cement and lime at commercial scale.”
