Welcome to the beginning of a clean new industrial era.
Powered by Coolbrook RotoDynamic Technology.
The new standard in industrial electrification
Coolbrook’s patented RotoDynamic Technology has the potential to reduce global annual CO2 emissions in hard-to-abate heavy industry sectors by 30% (2.4 Gt) through electrification and decarbonization powered by clean, renewable energy.
The technology has the potential to reach temperatures of 1700 °C, and it can replace fossil-fired steam crackers to reach 100% CO2 free olefin production in petrochemical industry.
It can also electrify high temperature process heating in the production of cement, steel and iron, and chemicals, and more.
Everything that can be electrified must be
Coolbrook’s groundbreaking RotoDynamic Technology can electrify industrial sectors that until now have been considered almost impossible to electrify. We can electrify and decarbonize processes up to 1700 °C, where no other electric technology is able to go. Hard-to-abate is now possible-to-abate.
Electrification of heavy industrial processes across hard-to-abate industry sectors is the key to achieving the required emission reductions and to speed up the transition to carbon-zero.
Direct electrification with clean electricity is the superior alternative towards zero carbon industrial production in all applicable cases due to higher energy efficiency and lower cost.
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ENERGY SOURCE
Renewable energy is generated by wind, solar and hydro power.
Fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are extracted from the earth.
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Emissions in industrial production
Renewable energy powers the RotoDynamic Technology with the potential to reduce up to 2.4 billion tons of CO2 emissions in industrial processes.
Fossil fuels are burned in heavy industries such as cement, steel, petrochemicals and chemicals to reach the required high process temperatures. This generates 8.7 billion tons of CO2 emissions annually.
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End-product carbon footprint
The products and materials produced with coolbrook technology carry a substantially lighter CO2 footprint.
the products and raw materials essential to our everyday lives carry a heavy CO2 footprint.
For industries
Electrifying the hard-to-abate industries – the world’s most polluting industrial processes
Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic HeaterTM (RDH) and RotoDynamic ReactorTM (RDR) can be used to electrify and decarbonize traditionally hard-to-abate industrial processes, including the production of steel and iron, cement, pulp and paper, petrochemicals and chemicals.
We have teamed up with the world’s leading technology partners and industrial customers for commercial roll-out of the RotoDynamic Technology at scale in the mid-2020’s.
Cement
Iron & Steel
Aluminium
Petrochemicals
A comprehensive and growing partner ecosystem
We are already partnering with some of the world’s leading industrial producers, technology companies and academic partners in development of our technology and to ensure fast and broad adoption of our electrification technology for industrial electrification.
Our partners and customers include ABB, Linde Engineering, Schmidtsche Schack, Tenova, Shell, Braskem, SABIC, CEMEX, UltraTech Cement, Ambuja Cements (part of Adani Group), JSW Group, ArcelorMittal, as well as Ghent University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge. We also partner with Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Business Finland, Climate Leadership Coalition CLC and Brightlands.
We share the sense of urgency with our partners and customers for cutting CO2 emissions across various industries and believe that together we can create the positive change the world needs.
Timeline
RotoDynamic Technology is being commercialized today
We’re partnering with some of the brightest minds and biggest industrial players in the world to make our RotoDynamic Technology the new global standard for electrifying hard-to-abate industrial processes. Since December 2022, we have been demonstrating the technology and its capabilities at our pilot plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, the Netherlands, and our first commercial project is now in delivery.
2021 – 2025
- Establishment of strong patent portfolio
- Successful pilot program at Coolbrook’s test facility in Brightlands Chemelot Campus for RDH™ and RDR™ with >5,000 operating hours to date:
- Temperatures of 1,000+°C reached (RDH)
- Naphtha, hexane, and pyrolysis oil successfully cracked (RDR™)
- Establishment of a wide partner network of world-leading universities, customers, and technology partners
- Development of the first commercial industrial product (RDH™)
- Signing of the first commercial delivery contract
2026 – 2028
- Delivery of the first commercial project
- Further customer orders for follow-on projects across target industries:
- Cement
- Iron & Steel
- Aluminum
- Petrochemicals
- Further expansion of the partner network with world-leading technology partners
- RDH™ and RDR™ part of electrification technology offering of key suppliers and EPC companies
- Development of core technological features for:
- High-temperature RDH™
- First commercial RDR™
2029 →
- High number of commercial deliveries to customers across target industries
- Expansion to new use cases requiring higher temperatures and power levels
- Continued partnerships within a network of globally leading industry players and decarbonization actors in different sectors
- Launch of the next generation products:
- High-temperature RDH™ capable of reaching temperatures of 1,400°C (and ultimately 1,700°C)
- First commercial RDR™ to decarbonize ethylene production at scale
RotoDynamic Technology has been proven at large scale
RotoDynamic Technology has been proven through pilot testing at a large-scale test unit at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, the Netherlands.
The main targets of the pilot project:
- Demonstrate the use of RotoDynamic Heater™ (RDH) technology for high-temperature process heating with inert gases, such as: air, nitrogen, methane, steam, CO2
- Demonstrate the RotoDynamic Reactor™ (RDR) technology and its reliability for hydrocarbon cracking to stakeholders in the petrochemical industry
- Validate modelling (fluid dynamics) and design parameters and to establish basis for first customer projects
Press Releases & News
Coolbrook and ABB Partnership Advances to Industrial Delivery Phase of RotoDynamic Heater technology to Adani Cement
Coolbrook wins Reuters Events: Global Energy Awards 2026 Technologies of Change – Pioneering Decarbonisation Award
