{"id":1598,"date":"2010-04-17T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2010-04-17T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T05:25:07","slug":"co2-emissions-from-cement-plant-to-produce-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/co2-emissions-from-cement-plant-to-produce-biomass.html","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Emissions from Cement Plant to Produce Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pond Biofuels plans to capture a cement plant\u2019s carbon emissions to grow and harvest high-value biomass from algae, reports Inhabitat. The nutrient-rich algae will be used to fuel the cement plant\u2019s kilns and truck fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Pond Biofuels plans to use some of that generated CO2 by growing algae next to Ontario\u2019s St. Mary\u2019s cement plant. The cement plant has already built a CO2 pipeline from its main facility to the biofuel company\u2019s $4 million algae-growing demonstration facility, which absorbs the CO2 using algae from the nearby Thames River, reports Biofuels Digest.<\/p>\n<p>The company will also use industrial waste heat from the cement plant to dry out the algae before turning it into a biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>The two project partners received funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2010\/04\/15\/co2-emissions-from-cement-plant-to-grow-biomass\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pond Biofuels plans to capture a cement plant\u2019s carbon emissions to grow and harvest high-value biomass from algae, reports Inhabitat. The nutrient-rich algae will be used to fuel the cement plant\u2019s kilns and truck fleet. Pond Biofuels plans to use some of that generated CO2 by growing algae next to Ontario\u2019s St. Mary\u2019s cement plant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}