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The Canadian Centre for Clean Coal/Carbon and Mineral Processing Technologies (C5MPT) is a unique research and education centre that supports sustainable and responsible energy and mineral development.
Vision:
To become a world-class research centre and innovation hub in clean coal/carbon and mineral processing technologies.
Mission:
To ensure that Canada is a world leader in innovative and responsive development and sustainable growth of knowledge-based natural resource economy.
Mandate:
To develop efficient, economically viable, and environmentally responsible technologies to secure Canada's fossil fuels and mineral resources for the global economy.
Key Research Priorities
Clean Coal
Research under the clean coal theme focuses on: coal cleaning and upgrading of both thermal and coking coals, multi pollutant control strategies, clean coal technologies to capture CO2 and CH4 in order to reduce GHG and other emissions, value added products, and underground coal gasification.
Hydrocarbon Processing
Research done at C5MPT is aimed at fundamentally changing the way bitumen, asphaltenes and low rank coal is converted and upgraded. The potential to convert low value solids into higher-value liquid products is one of the technical challenges being studied.
Mineral Processing Technology
Research under this theme focuses on the science essential to minerals processing and beneficiation of metals, thermal and metallurgical coals and water-based oil sands extraction.
Geological Storage of CO2
Research under this theme focuses on knowledge development contributing to the demonstration that CCGS is a safe, reliable and environmentally beneficial practice for long-term CO2 storage (the order of thousands of years).