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Friday 15 June 2018

BASF to invest in carbon recycling company LanzaTech




BASF Venture Capital GmbH said that it is to invest in LanzaTech, a biotech company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, US.
Using special microbes, LanzaTech has developed a technology for gas fermentation that first enables ethanol to be produced from residual gases containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. By re-using waste streams instead of incinerating them, industrial companies can reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
LanzaTech’s patented technology is now being deployed at commercial scale in the steel industry where carbon monoxide from residual gases (off-gases) can be converted into ethanol. Ethanol can be used as the raw material for the production of diesel, gasoline or jet fuel and as a precursor to plastics and polymers.

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