BioCarSt (Biologically accelerated CARbon STorage) - permanent carbon dioxide removal by microbially accelerated weathering of the magnesium-rich mine tailings and crystallization of magnesium carbonates.

Carbon removal

As part of achieving 2015 Paris Climate Agreement goal, the world needs to capture and store 10 Gt of CO2 per annum until 2050. Currently, global carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacities are only at 0.04 Gt/a.

According to McKinsey “even in conservative scenarios, CCS demand would reach approximately 2 Gt/a by 2050—a 60-fold increase over today’s pipeline of projects”

Many of projects in the market do not provide for reliable measuring and third-party verification of stored CO2 volumes, or are not permanent storages.

It's not a question of which CCS solutions will win, but rather whether there will be even remotely enough of efficient, scalable and verifiable solutions with scale-up potential to meet the demand

BioCarst process

BioCarst (BIOlogically accelerated CARbon STorage) is a mineral carbonation process based on microbialy accelerated weathering of ultramafic (magnesium rich) mining waste rocks and precipitation of magnesium carbonates, stable minerals which can store CO2 for thousands of years.

BioCarst is an innovative, efficient, scalable and verifiable solution for permanent storage of carbon dioxide which transforms legacy ultramafic mine tailings from an environmental problem into a carbon capture and storage solution.
The process is applicable to numerous mine tailings globally and has potential to store gigatons of CO2.

About Us

Dr. Srdjan Stanković,
Chief Scientific Officer

Scientist - internationally recognized expert in geomicrobiology and biohydrometallurgy with background in microbiology and geoscience. Before founding BioCarst Srdjan worked at Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover (Germany) were he developed a novel process for bioleaching of nickel from lateritic ores. Srdjan is now research scientist at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology.

Dipl. ing. Srdjan Vlajković, Chief Executive Officer

Mining engineer with many years of international experience in oil and gas industry and serial entepreneur. Before BioCarst Srdjan founded RigCode, a successful start-up company that developed software for optimization of drilling in oil and gas industry which was adopted by some of the major players in industry.

Leda Vlajković,
Chief Administrative Officer

Law school graduate from University of Belgrade and lawyer specialized in mining industry, responsible for all legal and administrative task in the company.

Partners

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology

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Biocarst won Startech grant

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We are proud to inform you that our company won 40.000 USD grant from StarTech program that supports innovative companies at early stage ot development. In a competition with more than 160 submitted projects, 12 companies offered the most innovative ideas at the fourth annual StarTech competition and deservedly won non-refundable funds totaling $500,000. At […]