There is something so virtuous about a cycle that
turns cement plant exhaust gases into oxygen and biofuel.
Not exact matches
The firm Skyonic, for example, announced a deal earlier this year to capture carbon dioxide from a
cement plant and
turn the gas into baking soda, hydrocholoric acid and other products.
It can be
turned into100 litres of biofuel per tonne of algae, or as is being done at St. Mary's right now, fed back into the
cement plant to replace coal or coke.
A subsidiary of Brazilian
cement giant Votorantim Cimentos, the company is working with Toronto - based Pond Biofuels on a project that
turns smokestack emissions from the
plant into algae.