CO2 based materials - Green Minerals

Reduce & Reuse CO₂

The manufacturing industry produces more than ever: concrete for i.a. building houses, plastic for all kinds of applications and paper is still widely used in a digital world. Despite new measures, these industries still have a lot of CO₂ emissions with global warming as result.

Concrete, plastic, paper: three application examples of Green Minerals in which CO₂ is captured and stored in materials by means of mineralization. CO₂ is approached as raw material which reacts with olivine: a rock-forming mineral that binds CO_2.

A factory that captures its own CO₂ and uses this to manufacture its own products. A circular manufacturing process with CO₂ based materials as a result.

Pol Knops explains the concept of Green Minerals (only available in Dutch)

The Green Minerals process

Research was conducted with KU Leuven and Brightlands Innovation Factory facilitates to start-up.

History

Green Minerals was founded in 2011 by Pol Knops, a physicist who has been doing research of CO₂ storage by mineralization for 8 years. The goal was initially to capture CO₂. The project became more interesting when Pol discovered that particular products with a functional application could be made.

Stage

We are searching for sustainable, long-term partners. To co-develop and validate the beneficial use of CO₂ based materials in the various markets.

The product is 2/3 Magnesite and 1/3 Amorphous Silica, it consists of very small solid particles with beneficial use in paper, polymer and concrete. We are eager to validate the use in various applications in the supply chain.