KAMLOOPS, BC, July 20,
2022 /CNW/ - Progressive Planet
Solutions Inc. (TSXV: PLAN) ("PLAN", "Progressive
Planet" or the "Company"), a dominant
manufacturer of agricultural, household, and industrial products
introducing blue-sky tech that turns post-consumer glass into
high-performance cement using CO2 sequestration, announces
filing of a 156 country PCT patent application (PCT/CA2022/05111)
(the "Application") for a method of improving the properties
of ground glass pozzolan. The Application claims priority to, and
benefit of, United States
provisional patent application No. 63/222912 filed July 16, 2021.
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world.
The production of Portland cement
(the binder in concrete) generates approximately 8% of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions.
Ground glass pozzolan (finely ground post-consumer glass) has
historically been used to replace up to 30% of cement in concrete
to improve the performance characteristics and reduce its carbon
footprint; however, it contains sodium. Sodium is an undesired
material in concrete. When sodium is reduced, the ground glass
pozzolan is stronger and better able to reduce alkali-silica
reactivity (ASR). PLAN's patent application describes a process
where PozGlass™ 100G permanently sequesters CO2 while reducing
sodium. The end-product is a ground glass pozzolan with a low
carbon footprint, better strength, and better resistance to
ASR.
"Having moved production in-house with the commissioning of the
PozGlass 100G Demonstration Plant in June, results came down to the
wire with our best results to date coming just 4 days prior to our
application deadline of July 16,"
said Ian Grant, COO of PLAN. "Being
able to include these results in the patent was significant and
couldn't have happened without the sacrifices and extra efforts of
our team. We are excited about the future of PozGlass 100G and
proud of our in-house team of engineers, scientists, technicians,
millwrights, and management which worked tirelessly to meet this
patent deadline at the same time that we scaled up from lab scale
to our bench scale system at our head office in Kamloops, BC."
The next phase towards commercialization will increase the
production rate of PozGlass 100G from bench to pilot scale. During
pilot, PLAN will measure parameters such as:
- How fast we can process the post-consumer glass;
- Total energy consumed in production;
- Total CO2 sequestered by the process; and,
- Concrete performance.
PLAN will test several equipment options at each stage of the
process to ensure maximum optimization and finalize plant design.
The pilot scale project is projected to take 9 months.
About Progressive Planet
Progressive Planet is a dominant manufacturer of agricultural,
household, and industrial products with two new cement products
under development including PozGlass 100G and Poz DE. PozGlass 100G
is made from post-consumer glass diverted from landfills and Poz DE
is made from waste rock powder generated during the production of
PLAN's core products.
The dominant theme of PLAN's new product offerings is minimizing
the carbon footprint of these products.
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SOURCE Progressive Planet Solutions