The famous bio-chemical manufacture Blue Marble Energy Corp. has announced the launch of its first and one-of-a- kind zero-waste chemical biorefinery in the US. Located out of Missoula, Montana, this biorefinery is a new project of the company’s wholly owned subsidiary called the Blue Marble Biomaterials. While the facility boasts of producing around 72 tons of fine chemicals a year, the best bit is that it promises to reduce its carbon footprint to almost nil by producing only pellet fuel and purified water and as its waste.
Blue Marble’s motive behind the project is to reduce their cost and second, to completely do away with the headache of managing tons of all that toxic waste being generated otherwise. Also, the launch of this biorefinery comes after President Obama’s recent plans of pumping some $500 million in advanced manufacturing through his Advanced Manufacturing Program (AMP). So, coincidence? I think not.
Irrespective of the company’s motivations of going green, the fact is that its new recycling system seems to be working well. How? Essentially through a machine called the photo-bioreactor, which when loaded with algae, purifies all the waste water and leftover gas via a fermentation system, while all the solid waste is simply dried and made into small pellets to be used as fuel in stoves and furnaces.
Via: Green Car Congress
