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Origo Industries announced it has signed a deal to trial its Ecobox technology at Liverpool John Lennon airport. The trial will see CO2 from air handling units on the terminal building filtered through a photo-bioreactor containing algae. The CO2 will be absorbed by the algae, accelerating its development to a point where it can be refined to produce a biofuel.

The airport plans to use the resulting biofuel to run its ground-based vehicles, while the waste biomass produced by the refining process will be passed through a drying process and fed into a burner which will supply some of the airport’s heating and hot water.

Origo said that it hoped to be produce up to 250 litres of biofuel a day using the system when it starts operating next summer

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