Human Blood to Help Capture CO2 Emissions |
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Biological systems have always been used to develop new technologies, and have proved to be very effective in different activity areas. Today, a New Jersey company is trying to reproduce a similar system in order to capture more efficiently carbon dioxide emissions.
Researchers started from the idea that in our body, the blood contains an enzyme able to capture two pounds of CO2 every day and convert it into bicarbonate. Then, when we exhale, the same enzyme converts the rezulted biocarbonate back into CO2.
Carbozyme company is trying to create a synthetic enzyme that can capture carbon dioxide trying but to a much larger scale. „ is in the final development stage of its state-of-the-art carbon dioxide separation and capture system. This patented design employs high efficiency, low energy, liquid membranes to capture and separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from a wide variety of gas streams with special emphasis on flue gas.”
Actually, the idea is to build some large tubes, coated with this synthetic enzyme. These tubes will be installed in places with high carbon dioxide emissions and as the experiments show, this method of capturing carbon dioxide is three times cheaper and efficient than other methods used until now.
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