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In Turkey, at the World Petroleum Congress, India\u2019s flagship national oil company Indian Oil Corporation and carbon recycler LanzaTech unveiled a Statement of Intent to construct the world\u2019s first refinery off gas-to-bioethanol production facility in India.<\/p>\n
The basic engineering for the 40 million liter per year demonstration plant will begin by Q4 for installation at IndianOil\u2019s Panipat Refinery in Haryana, India. It will be integrated into existing site infrastructure and will be LanzaTech\u2019s first project capturing refinery off-gases.<\/p>\n
No metals refinery emits waste gold or silver. You never hear of a platinum or diamond waste stream problem. Which shows, in the end, the way forward. Create a value opportunity and you\u2019ll see how fast emissions-reduction complaining turns into CO2 hoarding.<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s most compelling<\/b> about this announce is that more than 50 percent of the carbon comes from waste CO2 \u2014 and that an integrated oil refiner sees value in the waste stream.<\/p>\n
Second most compelling feature?<\/b> It saves the refinery\u2019s carbon for the carbon must-haves \u2014 shifting the use of off-gases (hydrogen, carbon monoxide, CO2) from refinery processing away from making low-value power and steam (the energy for which can come from renewable solar, for example). Why use off-gases to make power and steam? Conversely, why not burn the Mona Lisa<\/i> for its energy value?<\/p>\n
There\u2019s carbon in everything we eat, everything we wear, and in everything we currently drive. Even hydrogen or electric cars are lightweighting fast \u2014 and that means more carbon and less steel.<\/p>\n
As waste carbon acquires value, we\u2019ll see the shift \u2014 from power and venting to aviation, large trucks, and and more chemical applications all the time. \u201cIt\u2019s not very likely we will make yoga pants out of silicon,\u201d Holmgren wryly observed.<\/p>\n
The potential impact of using off-gases from the refining sector in India is considerable. India would be able to produce 40-50 kilotonnes per year of ethanol, per refinery, while saving about 1 million metric tons of CO2 per annum. This is the equivalent emissions savings, per refinery, to switching 2.5 million vehicles over to all-electric in California using today\u2019s grid.<\/p>\n
LanzaTech\u2019s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017. But the gas composition in a refinery is much different as the high levels of CO associated with the chemistry of steel production are not there.<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s changed?<\/p>\n
As LanzaTech\u2019s Jennifer Holmgren explained to The Digest, \u201cCO has both carbon and energy but CO2 only has carbon and so a form of energy is required.\u00a0 Fortunately refineries do have H2 so we are good to go. Our bug eats CO2 and uses H2 to get the energy since CO2 has none. Mix a couple of refinery gas streams and you get CO, CO2, H2 and away you go.\u00a0 In the gas blend we are using with IOC, more than 50% of the carbon in the ethanol comes from CO2.\u00a0 So we are fixing CO2 in products. Definitely a paradigm shift and for sure now CO2 can become an opportunity feedstock rather than a liability.\u00a0 If we can start thinking differently, then we can succeed in our battle with CO2.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, we expect to see the commissioning of the 16 million gallon first commercial at the Shougang plant in Caofeidan, China. Next year, we\u2019ll see the 21 million gallons second commercial at the ArcelorMittal plant in Ghent, Belgium.<\/p>\n
We covered the range of potential products from the technology in E Pluribus, Unum: LanzaTech, Global Bioenergies demonstrate The Biotechnology App Store, here:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2016\/01\/10\/e-pluribus-unum-lanzatech-global-bioenergies-demonstrate-the-biotechnology-app-store\/<\/p>\n
In December 2016, we reported that the DOE invested $4 million<\/strong> with LanzaTech to design, construct, and operate an integrated demonstration-scale biorefinery that will use industrial waste gases to produce 3 million gallons per year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. LanzaTech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have already successfully demonstrated their renewable jet fuel production technology.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2016\/12\/29\/lanzatech-amongst-six-projects-chosen-by-doe-for-pilot-scale-biofuel-projects\/<\/p>\n In September 2016, we reported that LanzaTech produced 1,500 US gallons of Lanzanol jet fuel,\u00a0resulting from the partnership with Virgin Atlantic. The Lanzanol was produced in China at the RSB (Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials) certified Shougang demonstration facility. The innovative alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) process was developed in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and with the help of funding from HSBC. More on that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In July 2015 we reported on the ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech and Primetals Technologies project in Ghent, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Digest\u2019s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech\u2019s ATJ jet fuel tech is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Becoming a Carbon Superhero: The Digest\u2019s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech\u00a0is here.<\/a><\/p>\nMulti-Slide Guide<\/h4>\n
The India backstory<\/h4>\n