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SIU Small Business Development Center names winners of 2023 Business Plan Competition to local entrepreneurs
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Thursday November 30, 2023, presented in partnership with Regions Bank, concluded with Thermaquatica, represented by Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm, winning the competition. The event, which took place at the Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center, highlighted the entrepreneurial spirit within the university and surrounding community.
Entrepreneurs win thousands of dollars in SIU’s 2023 business plan competition
In the Southern Illinois Business Plan Competition Powered by Regions Bank, Thermaquatica, a Carbondale carbon-recycling company represented by Scott Hamilton-Brehm, took first place honors and $5,000 cash along with $2,000 in marketing services from the Arthur Agency, a one-hour strategy session and five hours of legal work from Legal Advocacy Headquarters.
SIU prof named fellow of National Academy of Inventors
A longtime Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty researcher has been named a fellow by the National Academy of Inventors for its 2023 class.
Ken Anderson, professor of geology and director of the Advanced Energy Institute at SIU, is just one of 162 academic inventors receiving the honor this year. He will receive his medal during the NAI 13th annual meeting on June 18 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
SIUC students and faculty advisors discuss their research using Thermaquatica's OHD technology for carbon sequestration into to deep sub-subsurface microbial environments.
Student X-Prize
November 10, 2021 | Carbondale, IL
A student-led team from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale was awarded $250,000 from the Musk Foundation as one of 23 X-Prize winners. The team’s research is focused on capturing CO2 from the atmosphere through collected biomass followed by application of Thermaquatica’s patented OHD process to retain the organic carbon in liquid form. The carbon-rich liquid is then pumped into a deep sub-surface environment for permanent sequestration. Early research shows that deep underground microbes are consuming the liquid carbon mixture. This novel form of Direct Air Capture (DAC) relies on natural processes for capture, conversion, and storage of carbon.
NYSE Floor Talk: Dr. Ken Anderson
TEDxSIUC Talk
Dr. Scott Hamilton-Brehm discusses the fundamentals of why removing atmospheric carbon dioxide is difficult. The relevance of thermodynamics must be recognized if we are to devise solution to stop climate change. The goal is to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide, we do not have to bury it as the same molecule, we just have to sequester the carbon.
SIU-C researchers seek funding to move their technology from the lab to the field
SIU-Carbondale is helping lead the way in the fight against climate change.
WSIU's Brad Palmer talks with two faculty researchers who, along with a group of students, are working on a carbon sequestration process known as OHD.
This is part two of a two-part series.
ENERGY TRANSITION SOLUTIONS Podcast
In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Dr. Ken Anderson and Dr. Scott Hamilton-Brehm from Thermaquatica about Carbon Capture using a process called Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD). In this show, they discuss what OHD is, how this process can capture significant amounts of carbon, and how this can become a truly carbon negative technology.