{"id":136430,"date":"2022-03-04T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/reprogrammed-bacterium-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-chemicals-on-industrial-scale"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T01:22:23","slug":"reprogrammed-bacterium-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-chemicals-on-industrial-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/reprogrammed-bacterium-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-chemicals-on-industrial-scale","title":{"rendered":"Reprogrammed bacterium turns carbon dioxide into chemicals on industrial scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reprogrammed-bacterium-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-chemicals-on-industrial-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Process achieved at industrial scale in 120 litre reactor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Factory\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reprogrammed-bacterium-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-chemicals-on-industrial-scale2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\"><\/p>\n<p>The 120 litre LanzaTech pilot plant that can convert carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial scale carbon-negative production of two commodity chemicals has been achieved for the first time using a genetically modified bacterium that can turn waste carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol. The work, which offers a blueprint for making other chemicals, holds promise for a more sustainable, renewable and environmentally-friendly chemical industry as the world strives to shift from fossil fuels to a circular carbon economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Process achieved at industrial scale in 120 litre reactor. The 120 litre LanzaTech pilot plant that can convert carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol. Industrial scale carbon-negative production of two commodity chemicals has been achieved for the first time using a genetically modified bacterium that can turn waste carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-economics","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}