Bioreactor Captures Carbon Dioxide
3 March 2007, 09:49
Categories: bionanotech--nanobiotech coatings
Capturing carbon-dioxide from the exhaust of power plants and manufacturing facilities involves using energy to separate carbon-dioxide from other gases and pollutants. Now a Canadian company, CO2 Solution, has created a technology that uses carbonic anhydrase enzymes to process the carbon dioxide. Gases from a smokestack enter a water solution in their bioreactor cylinder. The solution flows around a packing material in the cylinder that has the enzymes secured to its surface. The enzymes extract the carbon dioxide so that it can be stored or converted into bicarbonate, an environmentally safe product, or other useful bi-products.
C O 2 + H 2 O >> H + + H C O 3 –
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