Mangrove Water Technologies Wins $3 Million Grant in Global Carbon Reduction Competition
Congratulations to Mangrove Water Technologies! Mangrove Water Technologies, a new UBC spin-off company, will receive up to $3 million to help commercialize a technology developed at UBC that simultaneously converts carbon dioxide and saline wastewater into value-added chemicals and reusable water. Its economic and environmental impacts could be considerable. Formed by past and present members of professor David Wilkinson’s research group in the UBC Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mangrove is one of four winners of the second round of the Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses, a multi-year, three-round global competition. In 2014, Wilkinson’s group was […]