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.
Current carbon utilization technologies remain costly, inefficient, and difficult to commercialize at scale. The catalyst has been the missing piece.
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.
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 outputCubic 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 catalystsThe 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°CSyngas 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.
Syngas feeds Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to produce 100% eSAF, nC Kerosene, renewable diesel, and gasoline, drop-in fuels with a near-zero carbon footprint.
Syngas is the starting point for methanol and propylene, base chemicals that feed into plastics, adhesives, and industrial processes at scale.
CO from the Olympia™ catalyst feeds graphite and graphene production, high-value carbon materials with growing demand in batteries, composites, and electronics.
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.
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 briefThe Olympia™ technology brief covers catalyst design, rWGS performance data, selectivity across operating conditions, and the commercial deployment pathway.
Whether you're evaluating Olympia™ for industrial carbon utilization, scoping a pilot, or exploring the syngas-to-fuels pathway for your facility, we'd like to understand your process.