Carbon materials
Advanced carbon materials for water treatment, tailings management and energy storage. Each line is a candidate for origination under the same royalty principle as P180: partners make and supply the materials under licence, and Carbonix keeps a royalty.
These lines come from more than a decade of Carbonix carbon-materials work, the same work that produced P180. They turn petroleum coke and wood into specialized carbons for oil sands, mining, industrial water and battery applications, and the proprietary Carbon Scaffold Platform tailors pore structure and surface chemistry to each treatment need.
Validated at lab or bench scale
Engineered activated carbons capture dissolved organics, including naphthenic acids, from oil sands process water. Pore structure, particle size and surface chemistry are tuned for water reuse and remediation.
Validation
71% TOC removal
Lab test, 1 g/L dose, 24 h
Peer-reviewed in Energy & Fuels, Heliyon and the Journal of Environmental Sciences
Formulations matched to contaminant and water chemistry: iron- and manganese-modified petcoke carbon for arsenic, surface-treated carbon for chromium, and iron-functionalized waste-wood carbon for selenium.
Applications
Mining and industrial wastewater
Activated carbon–polyacrylamide hybrids flocculate mature fine tailings, binding particles into larger aggregates for settling, consolidation and water recovery. A lower-cost grade using untreated petcoke has been identified.
Validation
Higher drained solids
Lab tests; Coanda benchtop testing
Peer-reviewed in the Canadian Journal of Chemical EngineeringNext lines for origination
Hard carbons from hardwood and softwood, with engineered pore structures and controlled pore-size distributions. Grades serve as functionalized adsorbents and as sodium-ion battery anodes.
Key attributes
Surface area and pore-size distribution control
Adsorbent and sodium-ion anode grades
Synthetic graphite made from petroleum coke, the same feedstock behind Carbonix’s water-treatment carbons, extends the suite into energy storage.
Application
Lithium-ion battery anodes
Carbons made by methane pyrolysis over specific catalysts, including nanotubes for electronics and advanced materials.
Applications
Battery, composite and defence materials
Also targeted
Carbon blacks for reinforcement and pigments, carbon catalysts for energy storage and conversion, CO₂-capture carbons and critical-mineral recovery.
Product brief
Request a copySources: Carbonix Technology Summary Report (December 2024) and third-party evaluations, updated for hard carbon and graphite. Results are laboratory-scale.
Published in scientific journals with researchers at Trent University and McMaster University. Paul Pede is a co-author on each.
Heliyon, 2023
O. K. L. Strong, E. Nazari, T. Roy, K. Scotland, P. R. Pede, A. J. Vreugdenhil
Read the articleCanadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023
K. M. Scotland, S. Bégin, O. K. L. Strong, P. R. Pede, A. J. Vreugdenhil
Read the articleEnergy & Fuels, 2024
E. Nazari, J. L. A. Bothen, G. F. Slater, P. R. Pede, A. J. Vreugdenhil
Read the articleJournal of Environmental Sciences, 2025
T. M. Roy, E. Nazari, O. K. L. Strong, P. R. Pede, A. J. Vreugdenhil
Read the articleOre producers, steelmakers, investors, communities and partners: we’d like to hear from you.
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