Scaling the LanzaTech Carbon Recycling Process

The need for long term solutions to meet the world’s increasing demand for energy and chemicals as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is driving the rapid development of processes to meet this challenge. LanzaTech’s innovative gas fermentation technology provides an economic way to recycle the carbon in waste gases using a renewable microbial biocatalyst. Our robust gas fermentation process can use a wide range of feedstocks such as waste gases from steel mills & refineries and syngas produced from biomass or MSW. Carbon that would otherwise be emitted can be captured and recycled with the LanzaTech process to produce chemicals and fuels. A key differentiator of LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology is the ability to use different families of biocatalysts to produce a wide product slate from the same feedstock. LanzaTech’s fermentation technology has been extended to methane conversion with an ARPA-E REMOTE project focused on enabling small-scale deployment so that stranded or associated natural gas can be captured to produce alkanes or lipids which can be upgraded to hydrocarbon fuels.