Vortis Carbon Co. (Accelerator)

Company Description: Vortis is a carbon management company based in Calgary, AB focused on developing simple and affordable ways to capture, convert, and market Co2 emissions. Over the past three years, in partnership with the University of British Columbia's Clean Energy Research Centre, we have developed a novel approach to carbon capture that uses motion and vortex separation to separate CO2 based on its molecular weight. While molecular separation has commercially been proven in applications such as uranium enrichment, it has been overlooked for gas separation and carbon capture due to the need for high rpm's, energy, and costs required to create the high g-forces necessary for separation. Vortis has developed a novel way to overcome these hurdles by creating high g-forces at extremely low RPMs and energy. This approach is a new technology pathway for carbon capture. Our approach is to apply this technology for point-source emissions targeting large emitters in the oil and gas, steel, and cement industries. Over the long term, we believe there are also opportunities to apply this technology to DAC applications.