Bioethanol from Waste Gases Facility Planned in Europe
July 22, 2015http://phys.org/news/2015-07-bioethanol-gases-facility-europe.html#jCp
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Three companies announced their intent to build Europe's first commercial-scale production facility to create bioethanol from waste gases from steelmaking process. They said that bioethanol can cut greenhouse gas emissions by over 80 percent.
ArcelorMittal, a steel and mining company, is joining LanzaTech, a carbon recycling company from New Zealand, and Primetals Technologies, a service provider to the iron and steel industry. This project aims to produce 47,000 tons of ethanol per year, projected to fuel half a million cars with ethanol blended gasoline.
The project will use LanzaTech's recylcle technology to turn ferment waste gases to produce bioethanol. The site will be the ArcelorMittal's steel plant in Belgium and will be constructed this year. The production of ethanol will happen by mid-2017.
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