6 years ago

Silform Technologies Secures £2 Million Funding for Clean Coal Technology

  • Silform Technologies, a Belfast-based developer of silform technologies, has secured £2 million in funding led by The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund and private investors

  • The funding will be used to establish a pilot plant in Northern Ireland, scale the R&D team, and enhance the company's pelletizing system for broader applications

  • Silform Technologies has developed a clean and cost-effective system for converting coal waste into valuable pellets, including a metallurgical coal pellet for the steel industry and an enhanced BioCoal with lower CO2 emissions and higher heat production than traditional wood Biomass pellets.

      • ProblemTechnology

      "converting coal waste deposits into pellets with economic value"

      Solution

      "developing an environmentally clean, high volume, low cost pelletizing system for coal waste deposits into pellets, with metallurgical coal pellet for the steel industry and enhanced BioCoal having 30% less CO2 than coal but with 70% increase in heat production"

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