{"id":20512,"date":"2014-05-22T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BiotechNow\/~3\/x2P7E8t_KdY\/new-uses-for-co2"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:49:51","slug":"new-uses-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-uses-co2\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO World Congress focusing: New Uses for CO<sub>2<\/sub>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Conrado of LanzaTech opened the Thursday morning panel of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.org\/worldcongress\">BIO World Congress<\/a> focusing on the many new uses for utilizing CO<sub>2<\/sub>. Similar to the panelists, LanzaTech is on the forefront of using CO<sub>2<\/sub> for the conversion of valuable fuels and chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>CO<sub>2<\/sub> Solutions focused on the many new opportunities for biotech that arise by harnessing nature for carbon capture and in turn reducing anthropogenic CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions and addressing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>While CO<sub>2<\/sub> capture is not a new market, currently it is a $400M + market as an industrial input\/commodity, conventional CO<sub>2<\/sub> capture is costly. CO<sub>2<\/sub> Solutions is aiming to deal with these challenges through the efficient management of CO<sub>2<\/sub> through biotechnology. Using natures solution, the industrial long, to manage CO<sub>2<\/sub> allows for lower costs, lower degradation, and higher stability \u2013 all of which are attractive to customers.<\/p>\n<p>CO<sub>2<\/sub> Solutions flagship project at the Canadian Oil Sands focuses on enhanced oil recovery (EOR). With the use of CO<sub>2<\/sub>, 1 tonne of carbon produces 2-4 barrels of oil. While EOR is currently using natural CO<sub>2<\/sub>, it is a declining resource and in the future EOR will have to utilize industrial sources and the industry is ready to facilitate.<\/p>\n<p>Proterro is utilizing CO<sub>2<\/sub> a little differently by making sugars from waste CO<sub>2<\/sub>. Their low cost sucrose unlocks the economical production of biofuels and chemicals. UtilIzing CO<sub>2<\/sub> has allowed Proterro the price volatility crop based sugars face. The end product takes the form of a drop in sugar feedstock. Proterro\u2019s technology compliments both 1st and 2nd generation ethanol while producing clean sucrose.<\/p>\n<p>Elcriton has developed microbial catalysts and bioprocess that generate next generation biofuels with feedstock flexibility. Elcriton is able to utilize biomass crops, biomass waste, and other wastes including gaseous wastes. Focusing on the new feedstock that is CO<sub>2<\/sub>, Elcriton is working to take advantage of its availability by developing microbial catalysts and industrial bioprocesses that generate next-generation biofuels and petrochemical replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Joule is focused on their direct CO<sub>2<\/sub> to fuels platform. Joule has the opportunity to utilize CO<sub>2<\/sub> where no biomass is required. Their ability to produce multiple drop in products reflects the technology advancements coupled with a stable supply. This direct conversion of abundant inputs to drop in fuels allows for sustainable production for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>These abundant inputs, infrastructure ready products, and the ability to monetize CO<sub>2<\/sub> enables the growth of a much needed industry through biotechnology that can not only utilize a waste gas but also address the issue of CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions and global climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Conrado of LanzaTech opened the Thursday morning panel of the BIO World Congress focusing on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[],"supplier":[2194,4376,7139,3938,2392,4281],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","supplier-biotechnology-innovation-organization-bio","supplier-co2-solutions","supplier-elcriton","supplier-joule-unlimited","supplier-lanzatech","supplier-proterro-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}