By various accounts, today the US has up to 112 sources for carbon dioxide (CO2), generally speaking of the merchant market, however some of these sources are argued to be dormant, or dedicated to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) schemes.
In any event, the lion’s share of the CO2 sources, whether by-product or anthropogenic, are dedicated to merchant service alone.
Over the years, various sources were dedicated, at least unofficially, to non-food and beverage service, speaking of industrial ‘frac’ grade product, for example. Further, as demands for quality are ratcheted up by the beverage companies and their trade groups, generally only the US ‘CO2 majors’ have been considered viable, and have been selected in recent years to serve the two or three major soft drink bottlers.
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