LanzaTech and Shougang Group announce the start-up of the world’s first commercial waste gas to ethanol plant



Type of post: FLASH NEWS.

LanzaTech and its joint venture partner Shougang Group (a Chinese iron and steel producer) have just announced the successful start-up of the world’s first commercial facility converting industrial emissions to sustainable ethanol (see press release, 8/6/2018). The plant, located at the Jingtang Steel Mill in Caofeidian (Hebei Province, China) began operations on May 3 and it has a nominal capacity of 46,000 tons of ethanol per year. This ethanol’s performance in fuel blending applications is indistinguishable from sugar-derived ethanol.

Figure 1. Waste gas to ethanol plant of Lanzatech at the Jingtang Steel Mill (extracted from the press release)

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