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LanzaTech awarded $3 million from US DOE
Advancing the conversion of waste CO2 into chemicals.
4th November 2024
Innovation in Textiles
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Skokie, IL, USA
LanzaTech has been awarded $3 million by the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the US Department of Energy (DOE), as part of a broader $29 million investment programme to advance carbon management priorities.
LanzaTech’s ADAPT Project – Accelerating Decarbonization via Advanced Production Technologies – was selected to address the priority of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into environmentally responsible and economically valuable products.
The new project builds on the company’s existing capabilities of using CO2 as a feedstock to produce isopropanol at a pilot scale and aims to advance the ability to process a range of gas mixes with CO2 and employ advanced gene-editing techniques to develop tailored microbial production strains for making isopropanol and other chemicals
The end-to-end process will also be refined to be more cost-effective, efficient and robust
Isopropanol is a common alcohol used in an array of everyday products such as cleaning agents and is also a precursor to the propylene value chain. Propylene, which is a building block for polypropylene, has a thriving demand market that is projected to approach $150 billion and 180 million tons by 2030. Importantly, isopropanol production has the ability to achieve greenhouse gas savings of over 200% when produced from recycled CO2 instead of fossil carbon, and a non-fossil commercial production pathway does not exist today.
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