This cooperative agreement is awarded to lanzatech INC

Lanzatech, Inc. was awarded a $3.71 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a carbon-negative chemical production platform. Under the three-year award beginning October 2021, Lanzatech will engineer a non-traditional host strain to maximize stable ethanol production from high hydrogen-to-carbon monoxide gas uptake ratios, enabling a single-step, direct carbon dioxide gas fermentation process integrated with renewable hydrogen production. The project aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility and scale-up potential of using excess hydrogen from water electrolysis at existing first-generation bioethanol plants to produce ethanol through carbon dioxide fermentation, thereby creating a carbon-negative manufacturing process in line with ARPA-E's mission to support transformative energy technologies.

For a project entitled, ''carbon-negative chemical production platform'' in accordance with FOA number DE-FOA-0002387 (ECOSYNBIO) and control number 2387-1505. Lanztech proposed to RE-engineering fundamental energy conservation & energy fluxes within a non-traditional host strain to maximize stable ethanol production at high H2:CO gas uptake ratios stable, continuous, low-cost, single-step, direct CO2 gas fermentation process that integrates with technologically-ready H2O electrolysis as the source of renewable H2 scale-up feasibility as bolt-on unit to existing 1ST generation bioethanol plant