LanzaTech, China's Baosteel team up on ethanol technology

New Zealand-based ethanol-technology developer LanzaTech said it is partnering with Shanghai-based steel and iron conglomerate Baosteel Group Co. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to commercialize its new ethanol-production process. LanzaTech has developed a process for making ethanol from steel mill off-gases, the waste gas from steel mills. Under the terms of the partnership, Baosteel Group and LanzaTech will construct a demonstration plant at one of the Chinese manufacturer’s steel mills, with plans to build that out into the first commercial facility in China. The demonstration plant will be completed in the second half of 2011, the company said. (June 22, 2010)