US DOE has awarded seven grants to 8 Rivers Capital so they can develop improvements and innovations to their carbon capture technology. 8 Rivers Capital all use the over $30 million to further develop their Allam-Fetvedt, Lime Direct Air Capture, and Carbon8 technology.
Heide Refinery Hydrogen Project
Project, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
A group of companies from Germany, France, and Denmark are teaming up to build a 30 MW electrolysis plant at the Heide oil refinery.
Keppel Data Centres and MHI-AP Memorandum of Understanding
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Project, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL
Keppel Data Centres Holding and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific have signed a memorandum of understanding to research the possibility of implementing a hydrogen powered tri-generation plant in Singapore.
NREL CO2 to Formate
Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL
Researchers at NREL have developed a new way of converting CO2 to a more usable product- formate.
UCB CO2, Sunlight Hybrid Process
Atmospheric Capture, Technology, Direct Air Capture, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL
A hybrid system of bacteria and nanowire that has the ability to harness sunlight and use it to convert CO2 and water into chemicals that can be used to create organic molecules.
OSAKI CoolGen IGCC Plant
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Project, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, Commercial, ALL
OSAKI CoolGen is using Honeywell’s UOP SeparALL technology during coal gasification processes.
Liquid Wind
Technology, Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Post-combustion, Pre-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Liquid Wind will develop, finance, build and manage standardised facilities that produce e-methanol from renewable electricity and upcycled carbon dioxide.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Atmospheric Capture, Technology, Food and beverage, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL
E. coli bacteria have been gradually trained to use carbon dioxide as food, rather than sugar, building their biomass from the air.
Steeper Energy – Hydrofaction™
BECCS, Atmospheric Capture, Technology, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration
Hydrofaction™ is Steeper Energy’s proprietary implementation of hydrothermal liquefaction which applies supercritical water as a reaction medium for the conversion of biomass directly into a high-energy density renewable crude oil, referred to as Hydrofaction™ Oil. Steeper’s unique process mimics and accelerates nature by subjecting wet biomass to heat and high pressure.
SoCalGas Power-to-Gas
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
Research part of SoCalGas’ development of technologies known as poser-to-gas (P2G), a method of storing excess renewable energy.
Markham District Energy- Health Supplements
Food and beverage, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Absorbs CO2 for use in health supplements using Pond Technologies’ algae.
Solvay Chemicals India (Solvay-Vishnu)
Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL, Complete
Industrial plant.
AES Shady Point CO2 Recovery Plant
Food and beverage, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Captures CO2 from Shady Point power generation plant for use in food and beverages.
China Huaneng Group Tianjin Project
Food and beverage, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Captures 60% of CO2 emissions from newly built power plant.
Erdos Project
Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Demonstration site for Shenhua’s coal-to-chemicals process.
Chongqing Hechuan Shuanghuai Project
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Post-combustion capture from coal-fired power plant.
AES Warrior Run CO2 Recovery Plant
Food and beverage, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Captures CO2 from Warrior Run Maryland power generation plants for use in food and beverages.
Tuticorin Alkali Chemical & Fertilizers
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Commercial operations at a chemical/ fertilizer plant.
CO2 Recovery Plants Project
Food and beverage, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
10+ plants capturing CO2 from ammonia facilities for re-use in beverage/food industry.
Kedah CO2 Recovery Plant
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Natural gas fired steam reformer using MHI’s KM CDR process to remove CO2 from flue gas.
ECRA CCS Project
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Pilot, ALL
Long-term project to assess the economic and technical feasibility of CCS for the cement industry.
Huaneng Gaobeidian Power Plant Project
Food and beverage, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
CO2 capture on retrofitted thermal power plant.
Carbon2Chem
Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
16 partners from industry and science to convert CO2 emissions into chemical components.
Hydrogen 2 Magnum (H2M)
Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Natural gas hydrogen production plant with carbon capture.
Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain Project
Geologic formations, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Establishing a full-chain commercial-scale low-carbon emission hydrogen to Japan.
HyNet North West Project
Geologic formations, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Integrated low-carbon hydrogen production, distribution, and CCUS project.
Lake Charles Methanol Project
Enhanced oil recovery, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Proposed gasification facility to capture 4 Mtpa of CO2 from syngas.
Buggenum Pilot Project
Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Pre-combustion, ALL, Complete
Pilot plant at the Willem-Alexander power plant from 2011-2013.
Lianyungang IGCC with CCS Project
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Pre-combustion, ALL, In Planning
IGCC plant with CCS.
Capital Aggregates Cement
Atmospheric Capture, Mineralization, Process chemicals, Commercial, ALL
Using Skyonic mineralization technology for capturing CO2; CO2 used for sodium bicarbonate.
Química Methanol Plant
Food and beverage, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Methanol plant with a gas-fired boiler.
Orlando Utilities Commission – Stanton Energy Center
Food and beverage, Project, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
Stanton Energy Center demonstration; Joint DOE demonstration project to study microalgae commodities (i.e. animal feed) from coal plant flue gas CO₂ and/or renewable gas production.
Upslope Brewing Company CO₂ to Ink Project
Project, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
Partners w/ Boom Algae on pilot algae greenhouse to gather data on algae growth, CO₂ capture, and energy use and costs; CO₂ waste from Upslope’s beer fermentation process is converted into 100% biodegradable, non-petroleum-based, algae-ink.
The Coca Cola Company – Plant-based Plastic Bottles
Biodegradable plastics, Project, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
Technology development agreement to accelerate the development of mono-ethlyene (MEG) from CO₂; Coca Cola uses MEG to make their plant-based plastic bottles.
SABIC Project
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Captures 1,500 tons/day of CO2 from two ethylene glycol plants.
Searles Valley Minerals Plant
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Capturing CO2 using amine scrubbing technology from one of their coal-fired power plant.
Swayana Mpumalang
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Industrial Capture, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning
Using Lanzatech’s technology to capture CO2 from a ferralloy plant in South Africa.
Engro Fertilizers
Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL
Chemical production facility capturing CO2 increase urea production.
West Cliff Colliery VAM Project
Fugitive Emissions Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Mine mouth/ventilation air methane, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
World’s first commercial-scale power plant using VAM as primary fuel.
Baard Energy Clean Fuels
Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, ALL
Coal and biomass to liquids.
DKRW Energy (Medicine Bow, WY)
Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, ALL
Coals to liquids.
New Zealand Steel – LanzaTech Steel Plant
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
LanzaTech’s pilot steel plant location, now fully operational, near Auckland, New Zealand.
Mitsui Group – Gas Fermentation
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Uses LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology throughout the Mitsui Group to convert CO2 to ethanol.
Shougang Group Steel Mill – Gas Fermentation
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Shougang steel mill outside of Beijing, China; World’s first commercial deployment of gas fermentation technology. Converts CO₂ to ethanol. 100,000 gallon/year plant.
Baosteel Plant
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL
Baosteel steel plant outside of Shanghai, China; Demonstration of LanzaTech technology at Baosteel steel plant, 100,000 gallons/year.
IndianOil Gas-to-Bioethanol Project (Hayrana)
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Plastics, Long-term Storage, Short-term Recycling, ALL
Project in Hayrana, India at IndianOil refinery; In 2017, IOC and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery off gas-to-bioethanol production facility in India.
ArcelorMittal Bioethanol Project – Ghent, Belgium
Plastics, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Long-term Storage, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Project in Ghent, Belgium at ArcelorMitttal plant; Convert CO₂ to bioethanol to be used for transportation fuel or plastics.
Evonik Specialty Plastics
Plastics, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Long-term Storage, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL
Research w/ Lanzatech on using syngas to develop specialty plastics; Combines Evonik’s biotechnology platforms w/ LanzaTech’s synthetic biology & gas fermentation expertise for the development of a route to bio-processed precursers for specialty plastics from waste derived synthesis gas.
Invista Nylon Intermediates
Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL
Using CO₂ and hydrogen for the direct production of industrial chemicals including nylon intermediates.
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gas-to-Jet Project
Synthetic hydrocarbons, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, ALL
U.S. government project for gas-to-jet technology; Partnered w/ Lanzatech to optimize its ethanol process to reduce the cost of jet fuel for the military in support of the military’s goal to reduce its carbon footprint.