Immersed air pollution in the industrial countries from the chemical industries has nearly killed 7 million people in 2012. Countries like China and India continue to grow with a number of escalating waft stacks of smokes marked the landscape of these countries. A developer of transport fuels and chemicals from waste, LanzaTech NZ Ltd. has raised USD 60 million from investors which includes Japanese giant Mitsui & Co. According to the Auckland, New Zealand based company LanzaTech NZ Ltd. the Japanese trading house Mitsui has conduit USD 20 million to help the company to build further.
The gas fermentation technology by LanzaTech converts toxic carbon monoxide and secretions of dioxide into renewable ethanol and butadiene which can be used for the fabrication of nylon, rubber and other plastics on the site at the chemical emitting factories. Earlier the chemical companies use to ship the huge leap of their chemical waste for conversion to third party, which is a very expensive and time consuming endeavor.
Along with a formidable list of global investors the Japanese giant Mitsui & Co. LTD led the round and Khosla Ventures general partner Andrew Chung had also participated. However, so far in the five rounds of funding the company has raised USD 150 million.
The company LanzaTech composes low-carbon fuels and from the malevolent pollution coming out from steels mills, oil refineries, chemical manufacturers the company can formulate chemical out of it.
To convert carbon monoxide into fuels such as ethanol or jet fuel, the company in particularly uses a type of bacteria discovered in the intestinal tract of rabbits, also for the chemicals such as butadiene for nylon production and propylene for plastic.
According to Andrew Chung, the conversion technology by the company has a huge implication for helping the world to get rid of dangerous toxins which is polluting the air. He further said that this process might also help the greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere.
This is a unique ability done by LanzaTech to diminish or eradicate the releases of waste gases like CO and on the global fight against air pollution CO2 have a vivid corollary. This method will have a potential to eliminate the smoke stacks from the world and the company LanzaTech on site is able to convert smoke from gas and coal fired plants into valuable chemicals and fuels. With this technique, LanzaTech will be able to accomplish toxic gases from the world and creating renewable fuel economically.
China which is considered the second largest country by land area and in the recent decades the country has suffered with severe environmental corrosion and pollution as it is one of the most industrialized but polluted countries in the world. China is also noted as the largest carbon dioxide emitter of the world. Due to political and public pressure on the Chinese government in Shanghai helped Bao Steel one of the Chinese chemical industry to look into the matter.
LanzaTech had already signed an agreement with Bao Steel whose 24 factories were based in Shanghai and had blanket the enormous metropolis in a toxic stew of chemicals day and night. As per the researched analyst, in China each year nearly 700,000 people die from pollution-related ailments.
LanzaTech had already signed an agreement with Bao Steel whose 24 factories were based in Shanghai and had blanket the enormous metropolis in a toxic stew of chemicals day and night. As per the researched analyst, in China each year nearly 700,000 people die from pollution-related ailments.
Through this technique there will no more be lavish and dangerous shipping by rail, freighter and tanker trucks or storing the waste underground to further pollute the environment. This technology have sparkled interest to two well known nations Russia and India for their undesirable environmental track records.
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