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Eco-Aviation Channel

All you need is CO2: John Lennon Airport to trial biofuel system

Eco-Aviation Today, March 10, 2009, p.4

UK-based Origo Industries is working with Liverpool's John Lennon Airport to trial a program in which its Ecobox system will be used to capture CO2 emissions from within the terminal building and recycle them through a "photo-bioreactor" to create an algae-based biofuel to power the airport's ground vehicles and potentially generate electricity.

Installation began in January and Origo expects the system to provide up to 250 liters of biofuel a day. The photo-bioreactor has been connected to the airport's air handling unit outlets located on the roof of the terminal building and the CO2 is filtered through the Ecobox into the PBR, from where it is captured and recycled into biofuel.

If the trial proves successful, a larger 3,000-liter-per-day system could be installed. While the cost of the trial has not been disclosed, Origo claims the initial investment could be repaid within a year.