Carbon Management

CO₂ into the building blocks of fuel.

The Olympia™ catalyst drives reverse water-gas shift at lower temperatures with near-100% CO selectivity, converting captured CO₂ into syngas. It's the technology behind a viable Power-to-Liquids pathway for 100% eSAF, renewable fuels, chemicals, and carbon materials. No noble metals. No methane by-products.

Olympia™ Catalyst: Overview
CO₂ Input
Captured emissions,
industrial off-gas
Olympia™ Catalyst
rWGS reaction,
cubic molybdenum carbide
Syngas
CO + H₂ →
eSAF, fuels & chemicals
✓ Near-100% CO selectivity ✓ No noble metals ✓ Low-temperature rWGS ✓ Pilot-demonstration ready
The challenge

CO₂ conversion didn't fail on chemistry. It failed on cost and selectivity.

Current carbon utilization technologies remain costly, inefficient, and difficult to commercialize at scale. The catalyst has been the missing piece.

Noble metals work, but the cost rules them out Platinum, palladium, and ruthenium achieve high CO selectivity in rWGS, but at costs that make industrial deployment unviable. They also degrade under real operating conditions faster than the economics can absorb.
Base metals are cheap but produce the wrong product Iron, nickel, and copper lack the selectivity to suppress methane formation. Instead of usable syngas you get a contaminated output that requires additional separation, adding cost and complexity back in.
Scaling barriers keep CO₂ utilization stuck in pilots Even where catalysts perform in the lab, getting them to commercial volumes without cost blowout has been the wall. Most CO₂ conversion technology never gets past demonstration scale.
The difference, in numbers
~100%
CO selectivity in rWGS, suppressing methane formation, versus 60–80% for conventional base-metal catalysts
3–5×
Lower catalyst cost versus noble-metal (Pt/Pd/Ru) alternatives at equivalent performance
<2%
Methane in the syngas output, so it feeds Fischer-Tropsch or methanol synthesis directly, with no added separation step
How it works

Noble-metal selectivity. Base-metal cost. Both, in one catalyst.

The Olympia™ catalyst is built on cubic molybdenum carbide. It achieves near-100% CO selectivity in reverse water-gas shift without requiring precious metals, and stays active at lower temperatures than conventional rWGS catalysts.

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Near-100% CO selectivity

Near-zero methane formation means the syngas output from Olympia™ needs no cleanup before downstream use. The catalyst handles selectivity, so the downstream process does not have to. What remains is standard compression to Fischer-Tropsch operating pressure.

<2% methane in output
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Noble-metal performance at base-metal cost

Cubic molybdenum carbide delivers platinum-level catalytic activity using molybdenum, an abundant transition metal. No platinum, no palladium, no ruthenium. At 3 to 5 times lower cost than noble-metal alternatives, the economics of CO₂ utilization change.

3–5× lower cost vs Pt/Pd catalysts
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Lower temperature, stable operation

The Olympia™ catalyst is active at lower temperatures than conventional rWGS catalysts, reducing energy demand and thermal stress. The active phase is fully reversible under mild H₂ conditions with minimal coke formation, stable across extended operation where noble-metal alternatives degrade and base metals produce unwanted by-products.

Active below 600°C
What syngas unlocks

Captured CO₂ as a gateway to multiple markets.

Syngas from the Olympia™ catalyst feeds four distinct downstream markets. CO₂ that would otherwise be a disposal cost becomes the feedstock for low-carbon fuels, base chemicals, carbon materials, and hydrogen, closing the carbon loop.

Olympia™ catalyst: rWGS reaction
CO₂ + H₂ → CO + H₂O
Reverse water-gas shift at low temperature, near-100% CO selectivity
Output
CO + H₂  Syngas
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Low-Carbon Fuels

Syngas feeds Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to produce 100% eSAF, nC Kerosene, renewable diesel, and gasoline, drop-in fuels with a near-zero carbon footprint.

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Base Chemicals

Syngas is the starting point for methanol and propylene, base chemicals that feed into plastics, adhesives, and industrial processes at scale.

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Graphite & Graphene

CO from the Olympia™ catalyst feeds graphite and graphene production, high-value carbon materials with growing demand in batteries, composites, and electronics.

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Low-Carbon Hydrogen

Combined with NanosTech's LESR technology, the platform supports grey-to-green hydrogen production at up to 40% lower emissions than conventional steam methane reforming.

From lab to deployment

Validated in the lab. Engineered to deploy.

The Olympia™ catalyst began in our Calgary laboratory, where years of development produced a cubic molybdenum carbide phase that drives reverse water-gas shift at low temperature with near-100% CO selectivity. Its early activity was independently peer-reviewed.

The Olympia™ catalyst family is the commercial form of that chemistry: the same active phase, re-engineered from a lab powder into supported, pelletized catalyst ready for commercial reactors. CO₂ that industries currently pay to dispose of becomes a feedstock for the fuels and chemicals they need.

Read the tech brief
Nanocatalysts for selective CO₂ conversion.
Pereira-Almao et al. Independent validation of the cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst for low-temperature reverse water-gas shift with near-100% CO selectivity.
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