SIAD and Enviral to recover biogenic CO2 and reduce emissions
The SIAD Group, in collaboration with Enviral, a member of the Envien Group, has installed a new plant in Leopoldov (Slovakia) to capture and liquefy biogenic carbon dioxide, significantly reducing CO2 emissions from underground deposits. The plant was built by SIAD Slovakia and Tecno Project Industriale (TPI) for an investment of approximately €11 million and will generate new direct and indirect jobs.
Targets achieved
30%
Capturing emissions from a bioethanol plant in Slovakia
40.000
Tons of food-related carbon dioxide: annual production capacity
Reduction of emissions into the atmosphere
The plant captures up to 30% of the emissions produced during bioethanol production, thereby reducing its carbon footprint and avoiding the extraction and release into the atmosphere of CO2 already sequestered in fossil deposits.
The plant was built by SIAD Slovakia and Tecno Project Industriale (TPI) with an investment of approximately €11 million and will generate new direct and indirect jobs. TPI's technology captures biogenic CO2 present in the gas generated during the production of ethanol when corn starch is converted into ethyl alcohol through a biotechnological process.
This gas is transported through a pipeline to the SIAD plant for final purification and liquefaction, after which the food-grade CO2 is stored in thermally insulated cryogenic tanks and then shipped to customers. The annual production capacity is 40,000 tonnes of biogenic food-grade CO2, with the possibility of increasing this to 80,000 tonnes in the second phase of the project.
This would make this plant, which is unique in its kind, the largest in Slovakia.