POET adds additional CO2 to US market

POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer, has completed construction on an addition to its POET Bioprocessing – Portland facility in Indiana, US, which allows the company to capture renewable carbon dioxide (CO₂) to be sold for commercial use.

Renewable CO₂ is a co-product of POET’s bioethanol production process, and part of the POET Pure line of bioproducts which includes plant-based purified alcohol, CO₂ and dry ice. POET says it “is the highest-grade sustainable liquid carbon dioxide on the market”.

Brad Jones, POET’s Director of Business Development CO₂, said, “Carbon capture has proven to be not only a really exciting business opportunity for POET, but it’s great for the planet as well. CO₂ is already a part of the natural growing cycle of corn. The CO₂ our facilities produce is reabsorbed by the upcoming corn crop, meaning no new CO₂ is added to the atmosphere. So our regenerative process results in a CO₂ product that’s one of the most sustainable on the market.”