We Built This Because Carbon Capture Is Broken
For a decade, the carbon capture industry has sold facilities on a single story: spend millions, wait years, and hope credits cover the cost when they arrive. We built Carbon to Crystals to prove that story wrong—and give operators a de-risked path from analysis to execution. We advise plant operators, COOs, sustainability leads, and CFOs who own the decision on carbon capture, 45Q eligibility, and emissions compliance.
The Technology Story
Most carbon capture fails at the industrial scale because it was designed for concentrated CO₂ streams — cement kilns, ethanol plants — and then retrofitted for what facilities actually produce. Gas data centers and power plants run on 3–5% CO₂ flue gas. That is a fundamentally different chemistry problem, and conventional amine systems simply don't work at those concentrations without bleeding capital.
Carbon to Crystals is built from the ground up for dilute streams. An aqueous scrubbing chemistry that absorbs CO₂, NOx, and SOx in a single pass. A mineralization pathway that converts the captured carbon into 98% pure, sellable Calcium Carbonate (CaCO₃) — not hazardous sludge, not a liquid that needs to be buried underground, but a high-purity mineral that commands $400–$850/ton on the industrial market.
It took fifteen years of engineering iteration to take this process from lab-scale chemistry to an autonomous multi-ton per day industrial reality.
Why Work With Us
15 Years of Iteration
Not a slide deck. A decade and a half of process engineering, pilot testing, and real-world validation.
Independent Validation
Third-party lab confirmed 98% purity, 96.4% brightness, d50=4µm. XPRIZE semi-finalist. Independent engineering review.
No Vendor Agenda
We're not selling you a build. We're selling you clarity. If modular mineralization isn't your fit, we'll tell you.
The Founder
Jerry Flynn
Founder & CEO, Tandem Carbon
B.S. Chemical Engineering (UMBC). 15+ years in process engineering, carbon capture, and industrial mineralization. Named inventor on U.S. Patent 10,005,029 for sequestering gas feed constituents and creating byproducts. Designed and operated the 1.5 TPD Carbon to Crystals pilot at Lafarge — validated by independent third-party labs at 98% CaCO₃ purity.
Semi-Finalist, NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Prior grants from NRCan, IRAP, and SDTC. Former CTO at Hyperion Global Energy Corp.
"I built this company because carbon capture is broken. Vendors sell multi-million dollar builds before anyone asks if they're the right fit. We start with the question that matters: does this actually work for your facility?"
Validation. Not Claims.
The credibility we care about is not what we say about the technology, but what independent third parties verified when they tested it.
Independent Lab Analysis
Third-party laboratory confirmed 98% CaCO₃ purity, 96.4% brightness, d50 = 4µm particle size — premium PCC specifications for paper, paint, plastics, and pharma markets.
Autonomous Capture and Conversion
Independently validated autonomous operation, exceeding design specifications safely and consistently in some cases.
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Designated a Semi-Finalist in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Pilot data reviewed by an independent judging panel against global industry benchmarks for permanent CO₂ sequestration.
The Advisory Approach
We work with plant operators, COOs, sustainability leaders, and CFOs who own the decision on carbon capture, 45Q eligibility, and emissions compliance. We help you cut through vendor noise and make fast, high-quality decisions.
Our engagements are not vendor pitches. We evaluate your flue gas profile, emissions constraints, and financial objectives, then show you what capture truly costs and what it can truly earn. We partner with facility operators so they can fund major capital decisions with clarity—and avoid stranded assets.
We help data center operators facing the 2033 45Q deadline, cement manufacturers pursuing closed-loop emissions reduction, and oil & gas operators monetizing upstream flue gas make the right capital decisions—based on engineering and current tax law, not vendor hype.
See the Evidence. Build the Case.
Talk directly to our technical team. No vendor pitch. No pressure. Just data.
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