Dioxycle

Our co-founder and CEO, Sarah Lamaison, PhD, had the honor of delivering a talk at the Closing Plenary of the Breakthrough Energy Summit in London a few months back. In this talk, Sarah dives deep into the often overlooked but crucial ethylene industry—a $200B market that plays a vital role in everything from plastics to consumer goods and automotive parts. Currently, ethylene is built by breaking down fossil fuels, contributing over 800M tons of CO2 annually. Dioxycle is changing the game by using renewable electricity to build ethylene from recycled carbon emissions, potentially abating over 1% of global emissions. Sarah also shares her journey of building Dioxycle alongside David Wakerley, PhD, and how the support from Breakthrough Energy has been instrumental in their progress. We were honored to have Sarah share our vision on such a prestigious stage. Watch her video below! #BESummit #ClimateTech #Sustainability #Innovation #WomenInChemical #WomenInClimate

Paul Wallace, seasoned industry expert, joins Dioxycle as Principal Process Engineer. Welcome to the team, Paul! Paul is an industry veteran with decades of experience across firms such as ChevronTexaco, GE, and as Chief Technology Officer at Enviro Water Minerals, Katana Energy, and Hunton Energy. He brings a deep understanding of power generation, electrochemistry, gasification, and minerals recovery markets to Dioxycle’s Paris team. Paul will contribute his expertise to our scale-up conceptual studies and offer valuable technical guidance to the process team. We are excited for the insights and impact that Paul will bring to Dioxycle! 

Announcing a new addition to Dioxycle’s US R&D team! Welcoming Gillian Hawes as Senior Electrochemist Gillian has a PhD in Chemical Engineering (Nanotechnology) from the University of Waterloo in Canada and has research experience at Harvard and Xerox Research Centre of Canada. She brings deep knowledge of materials science, next-gen battery development, and supercapacitors. At our US R&D Centre, Gillian will be using her expertise to further enhance our electrolyzer’s performance. Excited to have her on board!  

[Welcome to the team, Raphaël!] Joining Dioxycle as Senior Process Engineer We are thrilled to announce a new addition to our Process team at Dioxycle - Raphaël Sanjuan! Raphaël has an impressive background, having worked at global engineering firms such as Wood PLC and Foster Wheeler. He brings with him extensive experience in process design and project management. At Dioxycle, Raphaël will focus on process integration and development. We are excited about the impact he will have on advancing our mission of decarbonizing age-old industries!

French-American scale-up Dioxycle, a 2024 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, is developing technology to produce sustainable #ethylene from #carbonemissions, at equal or lower costs to fossil equivalents. The technology can be retrofitted onto existing manufacturing plants, capturing the carbon emitted during the industrial process and transforming it into green ethylene that can be used to make new products, making factories both more sustainable and circular. “Our enabling technology can help existing industry to reinvent their processes,” says co-founder Sarah Lamaison, PhD. The company has initiated a piloting program to give manufacturers early access to the technology. It has already signed letters of intent and memorandums of understanding with companies in a range of sectors, including carbon-intensive manufacturing sectors, consumer brands, and the chemical industry, she says. https://lnkd.in/gw-M9fr6

We had an incredible time at the Breakthrough Energy Summit in London last month! It was such an honor for our CEO, Sarah Lamaison, to have the chance to highlight our technology in the Closing Plenary of the conference and so inspiring to hear the words from Bill Gates and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales just after. We don't have words to express our gratitude to the fantastic people at Breakthrough Energy . Thank you for all of your support and guidance over these last few years!

[Welcome to the Team, Jan!] Joining Dioxycle as Senior Stack Engineer! We are super excited to announce that Jan Roßberg has joined the team at Dioxycle. Jan's role is to focus on the scale up of our cell and stack design at the industrial scale and to strengthen (literately sometimes) our team's mechanical development. Jan previously worked as an R&D engineer in the automotive industry, as well as in the electrolysis industry, where he supported the development of one of the world’s leading electrolyzer manufacturers before joining Dioxycle. Welcome to the Team again, Jan! – we are looking forward to fight climate change together!

Our founders, David and Sarah are wrapping up an amazing 3 days in London for the #BEsummit24. Thank you so much to Breakthrough Energy for welcoming Dioxycle into such an incredible community. And if you're attending, don't miss Sarah on stage for the closing plenary at 14:00!

We are hiring for two new roles in our Paris-based Chemistry team! The role of R&D Engineer would be perfect for you if you have a PhD and/or 3+ years of industry R&D experience in chemistry/materials science and would be excited to work on the development of our catalysis technology. If you have experience running a chemical laboratory and keeping it to the highest standards of cleanliness, safety and supplies, and you are meticulous with a positive-mindset, we are looking for you to be our future Lab Manager! If you (or someone you know) could be interested, please reach out to Grace, who would love to talk! More information is available here: https://lnkd.in/eXjxJMxq  

It was great to spend some time with Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Manik Suri (GlacierGrid) and Harry McCracken (Fast Company) and bring the climate topic on Collision Conference center stage. I was in particular excited to highlight how 1) energy efficiency and 2) scalability (in particular through modularity) are paramount criteria in energy transition technologies. With the available renewable power expected to remain a bottleneck in the next decade as electrification (and computing power requirements) intensify, Dioxycle is set to develop the most energy-efficient route to make ethylene from recycled carbon with the ultimate potential to displace over 1% of the world's CO2 emission. Our modular approach of building cells that assemble into stacks, which can in turn be parallelized, also sets us on track for ultra-high CapEx reduction over time. By building 1,000 of a single unit, we gain 1,000 times more opportunities to learn and improve, rather than constructing a single plant that is 1,000 times larger and we've seen the benefit of this approach through the solar revolution.