Coal Plant To Produce Biofuels
Inventure Chemicals has entered into a joint venture with Israel based Seambiotic Limited to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant.The biofuel plant will use algae as a feedstock that will be produced using the emissions from a power plant.The algae thus grown would be harvested to produce biofuels such as ethanol , biodiseal and other commercial chemicals.
This joint venture will help in gauging the feasibility of carbon dioxide to algae to biofuel model.Additionally this conversion technology also provides an attractive option to reduce the carbon emissions of a coal plant ,a major environmental polluter.Furthermore, the biofuel obtained by algae processing can also act as a substitute power source in the coal plant,making it a win-win proposition all the way.
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Srikant RajanThat certainly is grand idea….however we can only minimize the carbon impact of fuel consumption ….at some point in the entire cycle there would be fuel combustion and that would produce some GHG….
However even in the above process there is net reduction of GHG and their adverse impact on the environment.
Srikan, you are right. The process mentioned above only increases the efficiency, it does not circumvent GHG production completely…
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June 27, 2008
Now if you could suck up the CO2 that is produced when the biofuel is burnt then you could create a CO2 closed circuit – how cool would that be…