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Green Chemistry

Finland pilots carbon dioxide–to-ethylene process

by Alex Scott
August 29, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 27

 

A close-up of equipment in a pilot plant.
Credit: VTT
VTT's pilot plant converts carbon dioxide into synthesis gas that can be turned into olefins.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, LUT University, and companies including Borealis and Kemira have opened a pilot plant in Espoo, Finland, that will combine hydrogen with carbon dioxide captured from forestry and other biological sources to make the polymer building block ethylene. Finland generates 30 million metric tons of biosourced CO2 annually and could use it to become a major exporter of polymers and fuels, Juha Lehtonen, a professor at VTT, says in a press release.

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