Technology
Calix’s patented core platform technology delivers efficient indirect heating of minerals to enable industrial decarbonisation and create innovative environmental solutions.
Its patented indirect heating approach separates the heat source from the chemical reaction to create multiple potential benefits for metals and mineral processing.
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Designed to deliver high temperature metals and minerals processing with electricity, conventional and/or alternative fuels.
Flexible operations compatible with variable renewable energy sources and grid balancing applications.
Unavoidable process CO2 emissions from cement and lime production are efficiently separated, enabling cost-effective capture of industrial emissions for use or storage.
Calix’s platform technology is well suited to the processing of fines or dust that may otherwise be discarded as waste. Processing at the mine site may reduce material transport volumes and add value to refined mineral products.
For green iron and steel and other reduction reactions, hydrogen is used only as a reductant. It is not combusted as a fuel and unused hydrogen may be readily recycled.
Flash heating can produce high surface area materials with enhanced chemical or bioactivity.
How it works
Calix’s core platform technology uses a unique, indirect heating process to separate what we heat from how we’re heating it. Specialised steel tubes are heated externally, using either electricity and renewable energy sources, alternative or conventional fuels.
Ground minerals float down through the tubes, where they are quickly heated by heat radiated from the tube walls. The indirect heating process enables clean, efficient and precise electric heating to replace inefficient combustion and carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
Any carbon dioxide released directly from the raw material, such as emissions unavoidably produced in the making of cement and lime, are kept pure, and can be efficiently captured for use or storage.
For green iron and steel, hydrogen is used to remove oxygen from the mineral. Hydrogen, however, is not combusted or used as a fuel, and is easily recycled. This unique feature of the technology aims to enable the lowest cost solution for the production of green iron and steel.
Calix’s flash calcination technology can also create high surface area materials with enhanced chemical and/or bioactivity.
Calix is developing multiple businesses to deliver positive global impact. A licensing, joint venture (JV) and spin out model, with subsidiary businesses focused on a specific application and target market, aims to accelerate commercialisation and enable a flexible equity funding model to support growth.
Every application of Calix’s core platform technology:
Commercialisation
Calix’s licensing, joint ventures and spin-out strategies are designed to commercialise each new application at speed, and seize opportunities to urgently address some of humanity’s greatest global sustainability challenges.
The Calix Technology Centre, including a multi-purpose laboratory, at Calix’s Bacchus Marsh facility in Victoria, Australia supports Calix’s research and development capabilities, helping to speed up project development and drive new innovative applications of Calix’s core platform technology.
The ability to test and analyse materials on site supports rapid learning and feedback cycles across Calix’s research programs, propelling the development of the technology and its applications.
In addition to its in-house facilities, Calix continues to collaborate with world-class research teams across the world.
Through strong global partnerships and collaboration with industry, academia and governments, Calix is accelerating the development and commercialisation of its core platform technology. We recognise and thank each of our partners for their vital contributions.
Calix is solving global challenges in industrial decarbonisation and sustainability.
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