The plant will use LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology to produce fuel ethanol from steel mill off-gases.
LanzaTech and Baosteel signed a joint venture agreement in February 2011, to form the Shanghai Baosteel LanzaTech New Energy company, which will be responsible for delivering the successful demonstration unit and then a number of commercial production facilities.
Construction of the plant is expected to take six months and production will begin late in the third quarter of 2011.
CAS president Bai Chunli said the collaboration between Baosteel, LanzaTech and CAS to construct the demo plant to transform steel mill flue gas into fuel ethanol using biotechnology will blaze a new trail in the development of bioenergy.
The partners have also planned to form a dedicated CAS, Baosteel and LanzaTech Research and Development Center to ensure the continued growth and evolution of this novel technology.
