Olympia™ drives reverse water-gas shift at lower temperatures with near-100% CO selectivity, converting captured CO₂ into syngas. It's the catalyst 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.
Olympia™ is built on cubic-phase α-Mo₂C — a molybdenum carbide formulation that achieves near-100% CO selectivity in reverse water-gas shift without requiring precious metals. The same platform independently validated in Science for low-temperature rWGS activity.
Olympia™ 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 α-Mo₂C 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 catalystsOlympia™ 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 Olympia™ 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 Olympia™ 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 α-Mo₂C 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 for cubic-phase molybdenum carbide.
Olympia™ is the commercial product 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 Olympia™ technology brief covers catalyst design, rWGS performance data, selectivity across operating conditions, and the commercial deployment pathway.
Whether you're evaluating Olympia™ for industrial carbon utilization, scoping a pilot, or exploring the syngas-to-fuels pathway for your facility, we'd like to understand your process.