LanzaTech, a Nasdaq-listed next-generation carbon transformation company, has partnered on a next-generation bioreactor demonstration facility operated by Suncor, a Canadian oil and gas producer, at the City of Edmonton’s Waste Management Center. 

This facility is expected to improve the economic viability of an integrated biorefinery by showing a new intensified bioreactor design with greater efficiency and lower operating costs. As such, the demonstration facility will convert waste-based feedstock, including municipal waste and forestry residues, into ethanol and other chemicals to make petroleum-free materials and goods.

Furthermore, LanzaJet’s alcohol-to-jet technology can be used to take the ethanol produced from the biorefinery and further process it into other products including sustainable aviation fuel.

This project aims to widen the pool of waste gasses that can be transformed into the chemicals needed for petroleum-free materials and goods. It is part of the effort of LanzaTech and Suncor along with the Government of Alberta and the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) Fund to expand the breadth of waste feedstocks that can be economically used for gas fermentation.