Reduciner provides an electrically heated reactor that converts captured CO₂ and biochar into a CO‑rich syngas and high‑quality activated carbon at the emission source, achieving over 90% conversion efficiency. The dual output creates low‑cost fuel or chemical feedstock and premium filtration material, allowing carbon‑intensive industries to lower emissions, reduce fuel costs, and generate new revenue without major retrofits.
Funding
€3.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Hard-to-abate industrial sectors such as cement, steel, lime, and chemicals emit large volumes of CO₂ that are traditionally vented, contributing to climate change and increasing regulatory costs. Existing carbon capture solutions often require additional infrastructure, high energy input, or produce low‑value outputs, limiting economic incentives for adoption.
Solution
Reduciner offers a patented, electrically assisted, thermally driven conversion process that reacts captured CO₂ with biochar via the Reverse Boudouard reaction. The technology produces a CO‑rich syngas and high‑quality activated carbon directly at the emission source, achieving over 90% CO₂‑to‑CO conversion efficiency. Electricity supplies the required heat, eliminating the need for combustion or hydrogen and enabling precise, controllable operation. The resulting CO can be used as a low‑cost fuel or as a feedstock for synthetic fuels, steel reduction, and chemical synthesis, while the activated carbon serves premium filtration markets. By integrating into existing process streams without major retrofits, Reduciner turns waste CO₂ into economic value and supports circular carbon use in hard‑to‑abate industries.
Target Audience
Primary customers are operators in carbon‑intensive industries—cement, lime, steel, and chemicals—seeking to reduce emissions, lower fuel costs, and create new revenue streams from captured CO₂.
Features
- Electrically heated reactor that drives the Reverse Boudouard reaction, converting CO₂ and biochar to CO and activated carbon with >90% conversion efficiency
- Dual product output: CO‑rich syngas for fuel or chemical feedstock and biogenic activated carbon with BET surface area >1000 m²/g for water and air purification
- Seamless integration with existing industrial processes, requiring only modest equipment additions and no major infrastructure overhaul
- Direct use of electricity as energy input, avoiding combustion or hydrogen and reducing overall CAPEX and OPEX by 20–30% compared to hydrogen‑based Power‑to‑X routes
- Flexible product utilization: CO can replace fossil carbon in high‑temperature processes, serve as a syngas component for e‑fuel synthesis, or act as a reducing agent in steelmaking
- Patented technology ensures proprietary control over the conversion chemistry and product quality