Public Funding for Deep Tech Consulting Limited

The UN through its 2020-2030 "decade of action" has highlighted desperate need to 1) reduce levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to avoid serious impacts on climate, 2) improve sustainability and reuse of materials across all areas of society. Organic materials (biological and synthetic) and wastes have huge potential to support this challenge. Organic materials combining carbon and inorganic materials (e.g., phosphates) are vital for global supply chains from the food we eat and the medicines we take, through to industrial chemicals and fuels. While these materials are vital to the global economy, many are short-lived and their wastes contributed to ~10% of global CO2 emissions and 20% of methane, with components such as nutrients and pharmaceutical by-products causing increasing levels of environmental pollution (e.g., water pollution from synthetic hormones and eutrophication phosphates). As the global population continues to grow the need for these materials will only increase as will the associated environmental impacts. It is vital is to secure the supply of feedstocks required to efficiently produce such materials e.g., phosphates which are essential to produce fertilisers, and, due to intensive use, are a globally depleted resource past peak supply. DTC has identified an important opportunity using its state-of-the-art technology to extract the carbon from these materials for millennial storage while destroying all associated pollutants and recovering inorganic elements (e.g., phosphorous) for recycling. DTC's technology can achieve this while generating its own energy from the process reactions making it energy neutral and without any chemical inputs. This means it can be deployed globally and is not restricted to areas with high levels of renewable energy unlike direct air capture (DAC) technologies. By extracting all the carbon from organic matters in a form that can be stored safely for millennia DTC also offers an important advantage over biobased approaches such as forestation where events such as climate change, pests and tree lifespan make the above ground stored carbon vulnerable to re-release. To fully leverage the global potential of its technology DTC needs to understand the complex global network of industries and companies that produce these organic materials and relate this to potential CCS locations. This project will enable DTC to work with experts at Isle Utilities to understand this complex market and engage key stakeholders.; This will directly support DTC's development and scaling planning.

The UN through its 2020-2030 "decade of action" has highlighted desperate need to 1) reduce levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to avoid serious impacts on climate, 2) improve sustainability and reuse of materials across all areas of society. Organic materials (biological and synthetic) and wastes have a huge potential to support with dealing with this challenge. Organic materials combining carbon and inorganic materials (e.g., phosphates) are vital for global supply chains from the food we eat, medicines we take, through to industrial chemicals and fuels. While these materials are vital to the global economy. Many of these materials are short lived, the wastes of which led to ~10% of global emissions and components such as nutrients and pharmaceutical by-products causing increasing levels of environmental pollution (e.g., water pollution from synthetic hormones and eutrophication phosphates). As the global population continues to grow the need for these materials will only increase as will the associated environmental impacts. Also vital is to secure the supply of feedstocks required to efficiently produce these materials such as phosphates which are vital for the production of fertilisers, which due to intensive use is a globally depleted resource past peek supply. An important opportunity has arisen to use smart design to link these residues and wastes to the sustainable production of the inputs required by industry. To do this requires new technologies to process this mounting of potentially polluting material to recover the valuable inorganic components and prevent them becoming pollutants, for example phosphates are a globally depleted resource key to the production of fertilisers. DCTs technology can take organic wastes and other materials, processing them to recover the valuable materials for industry, while carrying out the equally important task of mitigating the associated environmental pollution and emissions. DTC technology has the potential to be a powerful tool for this emerging need, through its ability to render down organic wastes to their most basic elements and valuable fractions, while generating its own energy. This sustainable process can neutralise almost any organic pollutants and convert organic materials into recyclable inorganic elements such as phosphorus and ammonia. In order to fully realise the potential of the technology DTC will work with Cranfield university to carry out detailed process modelling, and techno-economic analysis and design reviews using the latest knowledge. This is vital to optimise process performance and CAPEX a head of developing a commercial facility for field trials.