Industry
Main content start
The focus of this Flagship Destination is to reduce gigatons per year of greenhouse gas emissions from industry by 2035 by launching solutions that are market-competitive, sustainable, scalable, and equitable.
Industrial manufacturing accounts for more than 20 percent of the global carbon footprint, and it is a challenging sector to decarbonize. The transition to sustainable industries requires reinventing how everything is made, from steel and concrete to plastics and chemicals. This Flagship Destination aims to seed innovation and develop partnerships to scale technologies that will transform industries of the future.
2022 Projects
In 2022 the Sustainability Accelerator funded its first 31 projects. Several of these multidisciplinary teams advanced sustainability solutions in the area of Industry.
Catalyst technology for scalable and high-efficiency power-to-liquid fuel systems
Electrified carbon dioxide utilization for syngas production with high frequency induction-powered reactors
Establishing Stanford’s place in the carbon-zero steelmaking economy
Refining a technology to reduce black carbon emissions from South Asian brick kilns
Use of carbon dioxide as a solvent and water replacement for “dry” manufacturing in the microelectronics, industrials and pharmaceuticals processing industries
