{"id":21411,"date":"2014-07-14T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2014\/07\/10\/on-the-move-in-biofuels-lovley-joins-lanzatech-advisory-board\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:49:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:49:27","slug":"dr-derek-lovely-joins-lanzatechs-schience-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/dr-derek-lovely-joins-lanzatechs-schience-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Derek Lovley joins LanzaTech\u2019s Science Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SKOKIE, Illinois (July 9, 2014) Dr. Derek Lovley, Distinguished Professor and Director of Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts has joined the world class advisory board of LanzaTech, a company that has developed a novel carbon capture and reuse technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LanzaTech recycles carbon that would otherwise contribute to rising Green House Gases in our atmosphere. Specially adapted microbes use this carbon to make new products, including fuels and chemicals. Initially focussed on using carbon monoxide (CO) streams from industry, LanzaTech\u2019s \u2018microbe factories\u2019 are also able to recycle carbon from carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) gas streams, through the application of microbial electrosynthesis, as pioneered by Dr. Lovley and his team.<\/p>\n<p>Electrosynthesis enables microbes to grow using CO<sub>2<\/sub> and energy from renewable electricity, such as from solar power. With this technology, LanzaTech\u2019s carbon-capturing microbes are like plants but don\u2019t need land, fertilizer or irrigation. The microbes capture carbon from the CO<sub>2<\/sub> that is so abundant today and recycle it into the products we use in daily life without impacting food or water security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a natural fit for LanzaTech\u2019s gas eating microbes to use renewable energy for their CO<sub>2<\/sub> Platform,\u201d said Dr. Lovley. \u201cThe commercialization of this carbon reuse technology has immense potential for today\u2019s bio-commodities market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Lovley\u2019s expertise in microbial electrosynthesis technology will play a key role in the development of our carbon recycling technology,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. \u201cBeing able to harness renewable and sustainable energy such as solar power to capture and reuse CO<sub>2<\/sub> will enable broad deployment of the technology. Today we recycle metals, plastics and paper, so why not recycle carbon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About LanzaTech<\/h3>\n<p>LanzaTech has successfully operated two demonstration facilities in China that convert waste flue gas from Baosteel and Shougang steel plants into ethanol. Both facilities operated at annualized production capacity of 100,000 gallons. LanzaTech is currently developing commercial facilities with multiple partners, with construction expected to begin in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>LanzaTech has also partnered with leaders in the chemicals, global aviation, steel, fuel and petrochemical industries such as Evonik, Invista, SK Innovation, Virgin Atlantic, Siemens Metals Technologies, Harsco, Petronas, and India\u2019s Centre for Advanced Bio-energy as it develops competitive biobased routes to producing a range of sustainable fuels and chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Derek Lovley, Distinguished Professor and Director of Environmental Biotechnology at&nbsp;the Univers&#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":[2392,3481],"class_list":["post-21411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","supplier-lanzatech","supplier-university-of-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411","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=21411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21411"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=21411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}