The Energy Blog: Lanza Tech Bacteria Produce Ethanol from Carbon Monoxide

Posted on April 30, 2007. Filed under: alternative energy, energy, ethanol |

The Energy Blog: Lanza Tech Bacteria Produce Ethanol from Carbon Monoxide
A New Zealand company, LanzaTech, based in Auckland, announced that it had developed a fermentation process in which bacteria consume carbon monoxide and produce ethanol. Khosla Ventures has invested $3.5 million in the company to establish a pilot plant and perform the engineering work to prepare for commercial-scale ethanol production.

LanzaTech’s innovation lies in using a bacterium to produce ethanol not from a carbohydrate, but from a gas, carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a waste product of a number of industrial processes, including the production of steel.

This technology could produce 50 billion gallons of ethanol from the world’s steel mills alone…

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This sounds like a real interesting idea. I’m curious what bacteria these are.

alvida
April 30, 2007

I have gone to the Lanza Tech website, and look a little not much. To see if I could found some more details about this new bacteria that produces ethanol from carbon monoxide. If in the future I get to find something more, I will put it on.

Thanks for reading.

german
April 30, 2007