Feasibility assessment
Source characterisation, feedstock availability and reactivity, indicative capture potential, energy demand and a first-pass cost per tonne.
Carbon capture, utilisation and permanent mineralisation.
Berzen applies its engineering, digitalisation and industrial scale-up capabilities to emerging Net-Zero technologies — building modular system concepts, monitoring architectures and commercialisation pathways that can be replicated across industrial sectors.
The principle
Turn an emission into a mineral, not into a liability
Mineral carbonation reacts CO₂ with calcium- and magnesium-rich materials to form stable carbonates. The carbon is then locked in solid form — permanent by chemistry, not by containment.
The materials needed are often already on site or nearby: steel slags, fly and bottom ashes, cement kiln dust, concrete fines, mine tailings and other alkaline industrial residues. That converts two problems — an emission stream and a waste stream — into a single process with a usable output.
- Permanent — no long-term leakage monitoring obligation attached to a geological store
- Local — no dependence on CO₂ pipelines or distant storage sites
- Useful — carbonated material can often re-enter construction or filler applications
- Verifiable — mass balance and product analysis give a hard basis for MRV
Process chain
From flue gas to verified storage
Each stage is engineered as a module — so the configuration adapts to the source rather than the site adapting to the technology.
Capture
CO₂ separated from the flue or process gas stream, with the route selected against concentration, flow, temperature and available heat.
Condition
Alkaline feedstock prepared — sizing, activation and dosing matched to reactivity and available residue volumes.
Mineralise
Carbonation under controlled conditions, with process parameters held at the point where conversion and energy use are balanced.
Verify
Mass balance, product characterisation and continuous instrumentation produce an auditable record of what was captured and stored.
Our contribution
What Berzen delivers on a Net-Zero project
We are the engineering, digital and commercialisation capability around the technology — working with technology owners, plant operators, research partners and investors.
Preliminary engineering
Process routes, mass and energy balances, equipment sizing envelope, utilities and integration constraints on the host site.
Modular system concepts
Skid and container-scale designs that can be duplicated across sites, shortening permitting, fabrication and commissioning timelines.
Process-monitoring architecture
Instrumentation plan, edge computing and data pipelines that keep the process controlled and the evidence continuous.
Digital MRV
Measurement, reporting and verification designed so that captured and stored tonnes stand up to third-party scrutiny.
Commercialisation pathway
Manufacturability, investment requirement, partnership models and the replication strategy that takes one installation to many.
Measurement first
A carbon claim is only as good as its instrumentation
Reporting frameworks are converging on continuous, auditable data. Systems designed today without that layer will be retrofitted expensively tomorrow.
- Continuous, not periodic — process and emissions data captured at source in real time
- Traceable — calibration state, data gaps and corrections recorded rather than smoothed away
- Reconciled — mass balance closed across capture, feedstock and carbonated product
- Reportable — outputs structured for corporate reporting and third-party verification
Independent evidence
Verification that does not rely on a single source
A carbon or environmental claim carries more weight when two independent measurement systems agree. Berzen pairs plant instrumentation with Earth observation data so that each checks the other.
In-situ sensors give precision at a point and can be calibrated, but they can also drift, fail or be disputed. Satellite observation gives continuous, independently archived coverage of the whole site and its surroundings, acquired by an operator with no stake in the result. Where the two agree, the record is considerably harder to challenge.
- Site-level context — activity, stockpile extent and land disturbance tracked over the full project period, including before the baseline was set
- Residue and feedstock streams — slag, ash and tailings areas monitored as secondary raw material sources rather than as waste
- Surrounding environment — vegetation, surface water and thermal indicators around the installation observed on a consistent schedule
- Archive depth — open satellite programmes provide years of historical imagery, so a baseline can be reconstructed retrospectively
Who we work with
Where a modular approach fits best
Cement & limeProcess CO₂ emitters
Metals & foundriesSlag-rich residue streams
Waste-to-energyAsh valorisation
Technology ownersScale-up & replication
Assess your site
Is mineralisation viable for your emission stream?
Send us your gas composition, flow and nearby residue streams. A short feasibility screen will show whether the chemistry, the volumes and the economics line up.