Here is a project that comes as a solution to the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases form oil refineries! Thanks to Chris Webster for helping me spot it. The first-of-its-kind project adds new meaning to the term ‘greenhouse gas’ by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from oil refineries by using the gas as ‘fertilizer’ in commercial greenhouses!
The project successfully distributes CO2 from Shell’s Pernis refinery outside Rotterdam to 400 greenhouses! To add on to the reduction, Hoek Loos and Voker Wessels are now expanding the operation to supply a further 100 greenhouses. It saves a large amount of natural gas each year and successful use of it in just 400 greenhouses saves about 170,000 tonnes of CO2, hence also its release to the environment.
According to the journal Nature The scheme costs €100m (£65m), supplying greenhouses with CO2 at between €40 and €70 a tonne! It is just over half the price of generating the CO2.
