CO2 Capture & Algae Growth

UOP, a Honeywell company announced today that it has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide 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 carbon dioxide from exhaust stacks at Honeywell’s manufacturing facility in Hopewell 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.

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