Carbon Recycling Markets

• Coal-Burning Power Plants
• Other Power Plants
• Manufacturing Facilities
• Refineries

Other Power Plants

The turbines at power plants burn through natural gas to pump out electric power. The 700° Fahrenheit (370° Celsius) fumes left over contain at least 30,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO₂)—the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming—along with other pollutants. Today, this flue gas wafts up and out of the power plant's enormous smokestacks.

Natural gas is the cleanest of all the fossil fuels, composed primarily of methane. The main products of the combustion of natural gas are carbon dioxide and water vapor, the same compounds we exhale when we breathe.

Coal and oil are composed of much more complex molecules, with a higher carbon ratio and higher nitrogen and sulfur contents. This means that when combusted, coal and oil release higher levels of harmful emissions, including a higher ratio of carbon emissions, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO₂). Coal and fuel oil also release ash particles into the environment, substances that do not burn but instead are carried into the atmosphere and contribute to pollution.

The combustion of natural gas, on the other hand, releases very small amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, virtually no ash or particulate matter, and lower levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other reactive hydrocarbons.

Regardless of the type and quantity of emissions produced, Ternion Bio can help reduce the negative impacts of these emissions by recycling them.