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UOP awarded DOE grant for algae CO2 capture
Capture, Mar 10 2010 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- UOP, a Honeywell company, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the US DOE for a project to demonstrate technology to capture CO2 and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production.
The funding will be used for the design of a demonstration system that will capture CO2 from exhaust stacks at Honeywell’s manufacturing facility in Hopewell, Virginia, and deliver the captured CO2 to a cultivation system for algae.
Algal oil can then be extracted from the algae for conversion to biofuels, and the algae residual can be converted to pyrolysis oil, which can be burned to generate renewable electricity.
The project, managed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, will realize further environmental benefit because wastewater from the manufacturing facility will be used in the algae cultivation system, allowing the algae to consume nitrogen in the wastewater.
At the demonstration site, UOP will design cost-effective and efficient equipment to capture CO2 from the exhaust stacks of the Hopewell caprolactam facility and deliver it in a controlled and efficient process to a pond near the plant, where algae will be grown using automated control systems from Honeywell Process Solutions and technology developed by Aquaflow Bionomic Corp.
