Renewable fuels and alcohol products specialist Alto Ingredients has unveiled plans to install carbon capture equipment at its ethanol production site in Pekin, Illinois.
Under recently unveiled plans, the US-based company has said it intends to transport and permanently store the CO2 in a secure geologic reservoir located near the campus.
To solidify the effort, Alto Ingredients has signed an exclusive non-binding letter of intent for the effort and is nearing the execution of definitive agreements to work with Vault 44.01. A Canadian carbon capture and storage (CCS) company, Vault will head the transportation and sequestration aspects of the project.
Alto’s Pekin campus produces around 250 million gallons of specialty alcohols and renewable fuel per year and generates over 600,000 metric tonnes of CO2 as a by-product of the corn fermentation process.
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