The best renewable energy and biochemical consulting firms have experts in a wide variety of bioeconomy specialties, including carbon capture. These firms should also have experts in renewable fuels like ethanol fuel and diesel biodiesel, synthetic diesel, renewable chemicals, renewable electricity, biomass energy, feedstocks, biomass technologies, bioproducts, and all areas of sustainability, synthetic biology, emerging technologies, and waste management, as well as even more specialized things like algae biofuel, agitation systems, agricultural waste, bio oils, bio jet fuel, carbon accreditation, carbon capture, carbon credits, climate change analysis, emerging technologies, environmental permitting, enzyme technologies, feedstock due diligence, financial due diligence, and glycerin related matters. They should have teams of experts for all types of clean energy, green energy, renewable energy finance, and renewables and should be able to provide expertise for projects and be available to serve as expert witnesses in matters within the bioeconomy.
Carbon capture involves the compression and storage of CO2 in underground or other media. Options for CO2 include saline aquifers, underground wells, or user for enhanced oil recovery. Ideal sources of CO2 include “Capture Ready” sources such as ethanol plant fermentation, ammonia and methanol plants, and other streams with a high percentage of CO2 in the gas. The California Air Resources Board has proposed protocols for the storage of CO2 that would enable the generation of LCFS credits for CO2 capture. The CO2 capture must be associated with fuels that are sold in California. For example, CO2 from ethanol plants or biomass gasification processes are leading candidates. Projects that receive credits for CO2 capture will need to meet the CARB requirements and have an approved pathway under the LCFS.
At Lee Enterprises Consulting, we have highly qualified carbon capture experts, as well as RIN, LCFS and Carbon Credit Experts available to assist you with any product and/or process related matter. See here for a list of our experts and our services and areas of specialty. Feel free call or email us for more information.