The Promethean Process drives reverse water-gas shift at lower temperatures with near-100% CO selectivity, converting captured CO₂ into syngas. Powered by the Olympia™ catalyst, it's the technology behind a viable Power-to-Liquids pathway — enabling 100% eSAF, renewable fuels, chemicals, and carbon materials. No noble metals. No methane by-products.
Current carbon utilization technologies remain costly, inefficient, and difficult to commercialize at scale. The catalyst has been the missing piece.
The Promethean Process is powered by the Olympia™ catalyst — built on cubic molybdenum carbide, a formulation that achieves near-100% CO selectivity in reverse water-gas shift without requiring precious metals. Independently validated in Science for low-temperature rWGS activity.
The Promethean Process converts CO₂ to CO with near-perfect selectivity. Methane formation is suppressed below 2%. The syngas output feeds directly into Fischer-Tropsch or methanol synthesis without additional separation or cleanup.
<2% methane in outputCubic molybdenum carbide delivers platinum-level catalytic activity using molybdenum — an abundant transition metal. No platinum, no palladium, no ruthenium. At 3 to 5 times lower cost than noble-metal alternatives, the economics of CO₂ utilization change.
3–5× lower cost vs Pt/Pd catalystsThe Olympia™ catalyst is active at lower temperatures than conventional rWGS catalysts, reducing energy demand and thermal stress. The active phase is fully reversible under mild H₂ conditions with minimal coke formation — stable across extended operation where noble-metal alternatives degrade and base metals produce unwanted by-products.
Active below 600°CSyngas from the Promethean Process feeds four distinct downstream markets. CO₂ that would otherwise be a disposal cost becomes the feedstock for low-carbon fuels, base chemicals, carbon materials, and hydrogen — closing the carbon loop.
Syngas feeds Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to produce 100% eSAF, nC Kerosene, renewable diesel, and gasoline — drop-in fuels with a near-zero carbon footprint.
Syngas is the starting point for methanol and propylene — base chemicals that feed into plastics, adhesives, and industrial processes at scale.
CO from the Promethean Process feeds graphite and graphene production — high-value carbon materials with growing demand in batteries, composites, and electronics.
Combined with NanosTech's LESR technology, the platform supports grey-to-green hydrogen production at up to 40% lower emissions than conventional steam methane reforming.
The cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst platform originated in our Calgary laboratory. Years of internal development preceded the independent publication — which validated low-temperature rWGS activity and near-100% CO selectivity.
The Promethean Process is the commercial solution built around that catalyst. The same phase, the same selectivity, now scaled out of the lab and into a deployable system. CO₂ that industries currently pay to dispose of becomes a feedstock for the fuels and chemicals they need.
Read the tech briefThe Promethean Process technology brief covers catalyst design, rWGS performance data, selectivity across operating conditions, and the commercial deployment pathway.
Whether you're evaluating the Promethean Process for industrial carbon utilization, scoping a pilot, or exploring the syngas-to-fuels pathway for your facility, we'd like to understand your process.