No sooner has Union Engineering announced two new carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plants in South East Asia, the company has also entered into agreement for a liquid CO2 plant in California, US.
The agreement is with Aemetis, an ethanol biorefinery operator in Keyes, California.
Union Engineering will design and construct a 300 tonnes per day (tpd) liquefied CO2 facility, at an estimated construction cost of around $15m.
It’s thought that Aemetis – and the biofuels industry as a whole – is keen to monetise by-product CO2 via liquefaction and further improve the performance of biofuels relative to other conventional fuels.
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