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- With a finances of $500,000, the mission is collectively funded by the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation through PRIMA Québec (40%), the Pure Sciences and Engineering Analysis Council of Canada (NSERC) (40%), HPQ Silicon Assets Inc. (10%) and PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (10%)
- The analysis mission is directed by Professor Lionel Roué of the Institut nationwide de la recherche scientifique (INRS).
- HPQ Silicon is poised to turn into the anode silicon materials provider of alternative for the battery {industry}.
MONTREAL, Might 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Revolutionary Silicon Options firm HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. (“HPQ” or the “Firm”) (TSX-V: HPQ) (OTCQX: HPQFF) (FWB: UGE), is happy to announce that HPQ, PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (TSX: PYR) (NASDAQ: PYR) (FRA: 8PY), and the Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Centre (ETM) of the Institut nationwide de recherche scientifique (INRS) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have arrange a analysis mission centered on the event of silicon (Si)-based supplies as lively anode supplies for Lithium-ion batteries (“Li-ion”).
A HIGHLY QUALIFIED MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TO MEET THE CHALLENGE
HPQ and PyroGenesis might be chargeable for the manufacturing of silicon supplies from the PUREVAPTM Quartz Discount Reactor (QRR) and the PUREVAPTM Nano Silicon Reactor (NSiR). The INRS-EMT might be chargeable for the characterization of the supplies and the optimization of the electrode formulations at laboratory scale.
SILICON, A PROMISING ANODE MATERIAL, BUT…
Regardless of intensive analysis efforts and significant investments in silicon battery materials, present manufacturing processes stay unscalable and even commercially unviable. This explains why regardless that silicon (Si) is theoretically a superior anode materials for Li-ion batteries than graphite, it’s at present included in lower than 5%1 of business battery anodes and its use is proscribed to some superior Li-ion battery producers. The NSiR PUREVAPTM developed by PyroGenesis is a game-changer and solves the scalability and business viability problems with silicon (Si) for the Li-ion battery market.
THE PRESENCE OF SILICON AS AN ANODE MATERIAL IN LI-ION BATTERIES WILL INCREASE
Advances made in analysis on using silicon (Si) in Li-ion battery anodes point out that by 2030, as much as 30% of the lively anode supplies for Li-ion batteries utilized in electrical autos might be silicon2. This improve, mixed with the anticipated exponential development in demand for electrical autos, will create a really excessive demand for the battery-grade silicon (Si) that HPQ and PyroGenesis are growing, with an estimated market of over 200,000 MT per yr by 2030.
“This analysis mission, funded largely by authorities grants, will present us with unbiased validation of our silicon battery merchandise, whereas offering us with us fast and complete suggestions on the potential of our supplies. Since we’ll personal the information we accumulate, it is going to be very helpful once we current our merchandise to a large number of potential consumers,” mentioned Bernard Tourillon, President and CEO HPQ Silicon. “HPQ’s Silicon R&D Consortium has the depth and suppleness to satisfy the challenges, as we try to provide merchandise for renewable vitality storage individuals and electrical automobile producers, every of which is looking for cost-effective methods to extend the Silicon content material of their batteries.”
Concerning the professor Lionel ROUÉ
Professor Lionel ROUÉ of INRS-EMT has developed a scientific program centered on the examine of latest electrode supplies for varied functions of business curiosity (batteries, aluminum manufacturing…). In the previous couple of years, an essential a part of his analysis actions has been dedicated to the examine of Si anodes for Li-ion batteries and to the event of in-situ characterization strategies utilized to batteries. He’s the writer of greater than 150 publications, together with about 20 papers and a couple of patents on Si anodes for Li-ion batteries. He acquired the Energia award from the Affiliation Québécoise pour la Maîtrise de l’Énergie for his work on this subject.
Concerning the Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Analysis Centre (EMT) and the Institut nationwide de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
The Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Centre (EMT) of l’INRS is a centre of excellence in analysis, innovation and graduate training within the fields of superior supplies, nanotechnology, photonics, telecommunications and sustainable vitality. The EMT Centre brings collectively roughly 40 professors.
About PRIMA Québec
The superior supplies analysis and innovation hub PRIMA Québec helps and facilitates the superior supplies ecosystem and acts as an engine of innovation and development in Quebec. By means of help and funding, it stimulates the competitiveness of Quebec corporations by serving to them profit from analysis experience. As a Sectoral Industrial Analysis Group (SIRG), PRIMA Québec depends on monetary help from each the Quebec authorities and the personal sector when selling research-industry relations.
Concerning the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
(NSERC)
NSERC invests greater than $1.2 billion yearly in analysis on the pure sciences and engineering in Canada. With this funding, greater than 11,000 world-class researchers are making discoveries and scientific breakthroughs. It additionally fosters partnerships and collaborations that deliver discoverers and customers nearer collectively. The analysis partnerships that NSERC permits between researchers and corporations assist information R&D and tackle the challenges of transferring from the lab to {the marketplace}. NSERC additionally gives scholarships, fellowships and sensible coaching alternatives to greater than 30,000 post-secondary college students and postdoctoral fellows. These younger researchers are the subsequent technology of Canada’s science and engineering leaders.
About PyroGenesis Canada Inc.
PyroGenesis Canada Inc., a high-tech firm, is a pacesetter within the design, improvement, manufacture and commercialization of superior plasma processes and merchandise. The Firm gives its engineering and manufacturing experience and its turnkey course of gear packages to prospects within the protection, metallurgical, mining, superior supplies (together with 3D printing), and environmental industries. With a staff of skilled engineers, scientists and technicians figuring out of its Montreal workplace and its 3,800 m2 and a couple of,940 m2 manufacturing services, PyroGenesis maintains its aggressive benefit by remaining on the forefront of expertise improvement and commercialization. The Firm’s core competencies enable PyroGenesis to offer progressive plasma torches, plasma waste processes, high-temperature metallurgical processes, and engineering providers to the worldwide market. PyroGenesis’ operations are ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D licensed. For extra info, please go to www.pyrogenesis.com.
About HPQ Silicon Assets
HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. (TSX-V: HPQ) is a Quebec-based progressive silicon options firm that provides progressive silica (SiO2), silicon (Si) based mostly options and is growing a novel portfolio of excessive worth added silicon (Si) merchandise wanted by battery and electrical automobile producers.
Silicon (Si), often known as silicon steel, is one in all right this moment’s key strategic supplies wanted for the decarbonization of the economic system and the Renewable Vitality Revolution (“RER”). Nonetheless, silicon doesn’t exist in its pure state and have to be extracted from quartz (SiO2) in what has traditionally been a capital and energy-intensive course of.
With PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (TSX: PYR), a high-tech firm that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes plasma – based mostly processes, HPQ is growing the PUREVAPTM “Quartz Discount Reactors” (QRR), an progressive course of (patent pending), which is able to allow the one-step transformation of quartz (SiO2) into excessive purity silicon (Si) at decreased prices, vitality enter, and carbon footprint that may propagate its appreciable renewable vitality potential. By means of its 100% owned subsidiary, HPQ NANO Silicon Powders Inc., the PUREVAPTM Nano Silicon Reactor (NSiR) is a brand new proprietary course of that may use completely different purities of silicon (Si) as feedstock, to make a variety of nano/micro spherical powders of various sizes and nanowires. For extra info, please go to HPQ Silicon web site.
Disclaimers:
The Company’s curiosity in growing the PUREVAP™ QRR and any projected capital or working price financial savings related to its improvement shouldn’t be construed as being associated to the establishing the financial viability or technical feasibility of any of the Firm’s Quartz Initiatives.
This press launch incorporates sure forward-looking statements, together with, with out limitation, statements containing the phrases “could”, “plan”, “will”, “estimate”, “proceed”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “count on”, “within the course of” and different comparable expressions which represent “forward-looking info” throughout the that means of relevant securities legal guidelines. Ahead-looking statements replicate the Firm’s present expectation and assumptions and are topic to quite a few dangers and uncertainties that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these anticipated. These forward-looking statements contain dangers and uncertainties together with, however not restricted to, our expectations relating to the acceptance of our merchandise by the market, our technique to develop new merchandise and improve the capabilities of current merchandise, our technique with respect to analysis and improvement, the impression of aggressive merchandise and pricing, new product improvement, and uncertainties associated to the regulatory approval course of. Such statements replicate the present views of the Firm with respect to future occasions and are topic to sure dangers and uncertainties and different dangers detailed from time-to-time within the Firm’s on-going filings with the safety’s regulatory authorities, which filings will be discovered at www.sedar.com. Precise outcomes, occasions, and efficiency could differ materially. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Firm undertakes no obligation to publicly replace or revise any forward-looking statements both on account of new info, future occasions or in any other case, besides as required by relevant securities legal guidelines.
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Supply: HPQ Silicon
For additional info contact:
Bernard J. Tourillon, Chairman, President and CEO, Tel: (514) 907-1011
Patrick Levasseur, Vice-President and COO, Tel: (514) 262-9239
https://www.hpqsilicon.com E-mail: Data@hpqsilicon.com
1 Supply: Pallinghurst-Traxys battery evaluation (Présentation NOU)
2 Supply : Roskill
