UOP Bags Funding To Demonstrate CCS Technology

Published: 03-Mar-2010

UOP, a Honeywell company, has bagged a $1.5m funding from the US Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production. The project will be managed by the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

UOP will design a demonstration system to capture carbon dioxide from exhaust stacks at Honeywell's Hopewell caprolactam facility and deliver the captured CO2 to a pond near the plant, where algae will be grown using automated control systems from Honeywell process systems and technology developed by Aquaflow Bionomic.

The company said that the wastewater from the manufacturing facility will also be used in the algae cultivation system, allowing the algae to consume nitrogen in the wastewater. Algal oil, which can then be extracted from the algae can be converted to biofuel, and the algae residual can be converted to pyrolysis oil, which can be burned to generate renewable electricity.

UOP added that the project supports the company's ongoing development efforts to deploy a range of process technologies to capture carbon dioxide and produce green fuels and chemicals.

Evan Van Hook, vice president of environment, health and safety at Honeywell, said: "The choice of the Hopewell site – both to capture CO2 emissions and to use the facility's wastewater – is part of Honeywell's continuous efforts to improve the efficiency and sustainability of business operations around the world."

Jennifer Holmgren, vice president and general manager of renewable energy and chemicals unit at UOP, said: "This project will demonstrate integrated concepts and technologies that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while showing the viability of new sources of energy.

"Integrated approaches such as these are our best hopes for creating economically sustainable renewable energy solutions."

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