Via Separations

This week, OCED awarded six projects across two programs committing more than $660 million of federal funding. 👏    OCED issued two grant awards in Alaska under the rural and remote program. The first plans to install air-source heat pumps in 240 tribally owned homes and community facilities on Prince of Wales Island—a location only accessible by small aircraft or ferry. The second plans to improve energy resilience in the Arctic Circle by upgrading the region’s power plant infrastructure to enable the integration of a 525 kW solar photovoltaic system and a 990 kWh battery energy storage system. 🔋    OCED also awarded four projects under the Industrial Demonstrations Program:   ▪️ Diageo plans to partner with Rondo Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to upgrade beverage facilities by replacing natural gas-fired heat with Rondo Heat Batteries, electric boilers, and other thermal solutions.   ▪️ ExxonMobil aims to enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas across high heat-fired equipment using new burner technologies for ethylene production, a chemical feedstock used in manufacturing.   ▪️ Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. plans to demonstrate the viability of Via Separations’ membrane technology to potentially scale across other domestic pulp and paper mills and other industrial sectors, such as chemical manufacturing.  ▪️ Technip Energies in partnership with LanzaTech plans to use a biotech-based carbon recycling process and low carbon intensity hydrogen to create sustainable ethanol and ethylene.  🏆 Learn more about all this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/eDj4Hu4k      Stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, subscribe to our newsletter today 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA 

The conversations around decarbonizing heavy industry continue to build, especially with respect to first-of-a-kind (FOAK) deployments of emerging technologies. When Via delivered our FOAK system we prioritized: 1. Value creation - delivering energy/chemical savings and operational flexibility to the customer, with no green premium 2. Time - delivering the system as quickly, and safely, as possible 3. Scale - delivering a system of relevant scale that retires technology risk for the industry Via is excited to publish our results outlining the first 6 months of operations at this deployment, dubbed Project Kodiak. The Via system has operated safely and reliably at this customer site while showcasing a 76% reduction in energy demand compared to the incumbent process. Dive into our system performance here: https://lnkd.in/ejW_pEH3 #FOAK #industrialdecarbonization

Via CEO Shreya Dave recently sat down with Lara Pierpoint on The Green Blueprint to discuss the financing and construction of Via's first commercial scale deployment. That project, located at a customer site in Grande Prairie, Alberta, has now been operational for 6+ months. Listen in to hear how Via navigated scaling risk and first-of-a-kind (FOAK) challenges to deliver this project, proving the commercial value of Via's technology while decarbonizing heavy industry. Latitude Media #FOAK #industrialdecarbonization #pulpandpaper

Via Separations is honored to be included as a case study in Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations | U.S. Department of Energy's recent report on financing and developing first-of-a-kind commercial demonstration projects. The report examined our system in Grande Prairie, Project Kodiak, that has now been operating for 6+ months. We look forward to a continued collaboration with OCED as Via delivers filtration systems that reduce both costs and emissions for our customers. #FOAK #pulpandpaper #industrialdecarbonization

As a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shreya Dave was fascinated with desalination technology and helping more people have access to clean water. She designed an efficient water filter alongside her classmate Brent Keller but unfortunately, it was too expensive for popular use. After realizing how much energy goes into separating chemicals in manufacturing, they began to see if their technology could be applicable elsewhere. Enter Via Separations, founded by Shreya, Brent, and their MIT professor Jeffrey Grossman, which is decarbonizing the manufacturing sector. Most manufacturing companies rely on a process that can be compared to getting pasta from a pot of boiling water to separate chemicals. They use evaporation, which is like boiling off an entire pot of water to get to the pasta. This process requires heat that often comes from fossil fuels. Massachusetts-based Via developed the equivalent of a pasta strainer for chemical separations, a process that achieves what evaporation does while using 90% less energy. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that switching to filtration-based chemical separations like Via’s can save roughly 3 billion tons of carbon per year. That is the equivalent of taking every single one of the world’s passenger cars off the road. After a few successful pilot demonstrations, Via is now beginning to install its solutions on a larger scale. Shreya and her colleagues are another example of people who took their passions and interests and existing work and found a way to use it to help the climate, serving as an inspiration to us all. https://lnkd.in/e2XESThf

Via Separations, an Autodesk Foundation indirect investee through Prime Coalition, is taking major strides towards reducing GHG emissions in the pulp and paper industry. 📉 The #ClimateTech startup's groundbreaking filtration solution—modeled using Autodesk tools—saves energy, reduces downtime, increases throughput, and captures valuable byproducts, demonstrating the immense potential for industrial #Decarbonization. 🏭 🔄 Learn more about Via Separations sustainable design and technology solutions in the latest AutoCAD blog ⤵️

The progress continues at our First of a Kind Black Liquor Membrane Concentration system. The system has now concentrated over 1 million gallons of weak black liquor. Head on over to Booth #35 at the PACWEST Conference to hear more about our journey.

We will be at #ARPAE24! Come by and check out Via Separations at booth 910 at the Technology Showcase to see how we are transforming the energy landscape of the future with our first-of-a-kind industrial process intensification for decarbonization. See you there! https://lnkd.in/gkS9tUZ

Via was honored to host Office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey at our new headquarters in Watertown, as she unveiled new findings on her ClimateTech Initiative proposed as part of the Mass Leads Act. Via is proud to be a Massachusetts-based company, from our roots at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Greentown Labs to our new facility in Watertown that was a paper mill in the 1860s - fitting as we scale in the pulp & paper sector. The administration's proposed investment has demonstrable economic returns here in Massachusetts, and we plan to expand that impact through the country creating and retaining jobs, while reducing emissions.  Link to the press release: https://lnkd.in/eUPcz9yr Columbia, Berkeley Investments , TRIA, Inc., Leggat McCall Properties, R.W. Sullivan Engineering #climatetech #industrialdecarbonization #watertown

Via Separations and International Paper Collaborate to Complete Project Kodiak in Grande Prairie, Alberta. We are excited to announce the safe and successful completion of construction for Project Kodiak, Via Separations' first-of-a-kind Black Liquor Concentration System, in collaboration with International Paper. Commissioning is underway in Grande Prairie, and the team is excited to see promising early operating results. Project Kodiak marks a significant advancement in sustainable industrial processes, offering transformative solutions for the #pulpandpaper industry. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to strive to do more with less. #FOAK #climatetech #industrialdecarbonization