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Alcoa And Codexis Pursue Carbon Capture

by Michael McCoy
April 18, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 16

Alcoa has launched a pilot program with Codexis and CO2 Solution aimed at sequestering carbon dioxide emissions. Alcoa, the world’s leading aluminum producer, says the partners plan to develop a way to combine flue gas, enzymes, and an aluminum manufacturing by-product known as alkaline clay to create a neutralized product that can be used in environmental reclamation. Codexis and CO2 Solution, both enzyme technology companies, have been working since 2009 on carbonic anhydrase enzymes for carbon dioxide capture.

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