PeroCycle

The University of Birmingham has partnered with global miner Anglo American and venture-builder Cambridge Future Tech to launch PeroCycle, a company aimed at developing and commercializing carbon recycling technology for implementation in steelmaking.

PeroCycle will build upon innovations made at the University of Birmingham’s School of Chemical Engineering by Professor Yulong Ding and Dr. Harriet Kildahl, who pioneered an in-process carbon recycling method with the use of a double perovskite material. The use of the material enables the in-process splitting of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide at considerably lower temperatures than current methods.

The carbon monoxide could then be recycled in a closed loop as a substitute for coal or coke currently used in the steelmaking process, in turn significantly reducing the volume of carbon dioxide emissions. Cambridge Future Tech, working with Anglo American, will lead the spin-out and development of PeroCycle, de-risking its path to commercial applications.