LanzaTech ready for commercial scale waste gas-to-fuel projects in China

New Zealand’s LanzaTech said Monday its pre-commercial steel mill waste gas-to-fuel plant in China had reached the milestones for the technology to go to the next level – commercial scale deployment.
The company built the 100,000-gallon-per-year plant in cooperation with local steel producer Baosteel Group at one of the latter’s steel mills near Shanghai. China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) initiated a review of the site and technology in November, which showed that the waste gas-to-ethanol facility operated in line with international standards on gas conversion rates and other technical milestones, the company said.
LanzaTech and Baosteel are planning to develop a commercial-scale plant in 2013. In March 2011, they set up a joint venture – Shanghai Baosteel LanzaTech New Energy Co. – to commercialize LanzaTech’s waste gas-to-fuel process in China.
“This technology has enormous potential in the Chinese market as it will positively impact our manufacturing sustainability as well as China’s new energy development,” Baosteel Metal Chairman Yanlin Jia said.