BBT’s Aluminothermic Process Validated for Liquid Mg Capture!

emphasizing safety, cost, and environmental impact

Big Blue Technologies is developing the world’s most energy and material efficient primary magnesium metal production process. Magnesium is synonymous with light-weighting and a critical material of national strategic interest. In addition to ultra-portable structural applications, it’s also used to make steel, titanium, and high strength aluminum alloys.

Unfortunately, high prices, production imbalance, and volatility have kept Mg from flourishing.

Big Blue Technologies is innovating thermal production methods to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and set a path toward net-zero emissions.

With specialized process and reactor design, modern control and automation, and ore-to-ingot testing capability, we are bringing to market the world’s cleanest and most economical Mg production process. Big Blue Technologies is paving the way:

toward a lighter future

leaders in process technology

TRL 6

With funding from the National Science Foundation, US DOE, and the state of Colorado, we’re working to demonstrate a technology readiness level of 6.

The result will be a continuous aluminothermal process with an output up to 5 kg/hr of metal.

Electrified Technology

BBT’s thermal process is fully electrified. Starting with magnesia (MgO) and scrap aluminum, our process has no direct emissions. Indirect emissions are from grid electricity use. Our process’ nominal impact offsets 18 tons of CO2 per ton of Mg metal produced compared to the dominant incumbent process, Pidgeon, with no waste generation.

MOU’s with Partners

BBT has executed three memoranda of understandings to deploy our production technology globally and fulfill regional supply gaps.

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