NetZeroChem (NZC) is a research and technology platform investigating business and innovation opportunities arising from the shift to low-carbon technology.
Alan Smith has many years of experience working in biotech research, as an industrial polymer chemist, university lecturer and as owner of a successful manufacturing business.
The effort to transition society and the economy away from a ‘no-zeros’ one, responsible for polluting our planet, and move it towards ‘net zero’.
Over the last 12 months we have expanded the range of our work to include the purification of the hydroxide out hydrogen plant makes into 99.99% pure and totally zero-CO2 aluminium oxide.
Learn MoreVisitors are welcome at our laboratory, where you can see the hydrogen mini-plant in action and learn about the other intriguing and valuable technologies we are developing.
Arrange Your VisitWe prefer to use the kind of waste aluminium that nobody wants. Packaging foil, machining waste, sander dust, beverage cans, wire, and so on. Almost a 100,000 tons of such material is landfilled in the UK every year (based on official figures).
A new way of using low-grade aluminium waste incentivises collection and separation. It will change it from being a ‘market burden’ to a more valued resource. Using our system will reduce strip-mining, shipping and imports.
Using our system will reduce strip-mining, shipping and imports. Aluminates are strategic raw materials with no UK source, all mined, refined and shipped to the UK at huge cost to the environment in terms of habitat loss, CO2 emissions and serious – and so far unsolved – legacy pollution caused by ‘red mud’ mine waste.