Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Codexis says pilot shows enzyme-based carbon capture can work

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane
July 10, 2012

In California, Codexis announced that a pilot-scale demonstration of the company’s carbon capture technology conducted at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Alabama, on flue gas emitted from a Southern Company power plant, shows that enzymes have promise to facilitate CO2 capture at coal-fired power plants. This is the largest scale that enzyme-based carbon capture technology has been demonstrated to date, with the equivalent daily capture rate of 1,800 average sized trees per day.

In May 2010, Codexis received $4.7 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop an active enzyme called carbonic anhydrase (CA), which catalyzes the transfer of carbon dioxide in nature and is designed to remove dangerous emissions from coal-fired power plants.

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1 comment:

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