Capture, conversion, materials, and biology
CO₂ capture, catalysts, membranes, sorbents, microbial systems, packaging materials, AD/RNG, biochar, HTL, pyrolysis, gasification, and wastewater treatment.
Airport Living Lab Commercialization
Airports as proving grounds for carbon recycling technology.
Use airport operating environments to test, combine, pilot, validate, and launch carbon recycling technologies with universities, national labs, startups, vendors, and airport partners.
Campus-to-airport commercialization
Why this matters
Airport carbon-resource management creates real-world demand for university and lab innovation.
Many relevant technologies already exist across universities, national labs, startups, and vendors. The missing step is often not invention. It is translation into an interoperable airport pathway with operators, vendors, tenants, safety constraints, data, claims, procurement, and market pull aligned.
IP and capability types
Carbon Recycling Technologies organizes more than patents.
Living-lab commercialization can include patents, know-how, software, data models, sensors, catalysts, materials, logistics methods, MRV tools, design systems, and sponsored research capabilities.
Routing, MRV, data, and dashboards
Stream classification, tenant scorecards, contamination prediction, source tracking, chain of custody, LCA, emissions reporting, and claims validation.
SmartSort, logistics, and field pilots
Labeling systems, smart bins, back-of-house workflows, hauler integration, fuel logistics, storage, staging, and compliance-aware materials handling.
Licensing, procurement, and spinouts
Airport-fit screening, complementary IP bundling, sponsored pilots, vendor partnerships, startup formation, grant strategy, and infrastructure commercialization.
Commercialization pathway
From isolated research to airport-ready systems.
01Discover technologies
02Bundle complementary IP
03Screen airport fit
04Design controlled pilot
05Coordinate vendors
06Verify claims and data
07Scale, license, or spin out
Real pilots can happen across passenger-facing and back-of-house airport environments.
Pilot formats
Living labs can start small and compound.
- SmartSort bin, label, and signage pilots
- Food-waste and used-cooking-oil chain-of-custody pilots
- CO₂ capture and utilization screening
- Wastewater, biogas, and biochar pathways
- Smart-bin sensors and contamination detection
- Airport carbon dashboard and MRV pilots
- Regional MSW-to-SAF and e-fuel corridor mapping
Roles
Carbon Recycling Technologies organizes the pathway without replacing the stakeholders.
Operating environment
Provide facilities, tenant context, safety requirements, sustainability goals, and procurement pathways.
Technology supply
Provide IP, know-how, researchers, test methods, data, and sponsored-research capacity.
Equipment and services
Provide hardware, software, engineering, processing, hauling, controls, and implementation support.
Market pull
Provide SAF demand, fuel logistics interest, Scope 3 relevance, and offtake context.
Operating integrator
Maps needs, bundles capabilities, coordinates pilots, structures claims, and supports managed commercialization.
Build the airport pathway
Use the airport as a real commercialization environment.
Screen technologies, assemble complementary IP, design pilot pathways, align airport stakeholders, and translate research into deployable carbon recycling programs.