Volney, NY -- A new plant which captures carbon dioxide from the ethanol production process has opened next to the Sunoco ethanol plant in Volney. Linde North America has begun production and produces 600 tons of carbon dioxide a day at the Volney plant in Riverview Business Park off Route 57. Sunoco’s Volney plant uses about 41 million bushels of...
Volney, NY -- A new plant which captures carbon dioxide from the ethanol production process has opened next to the Sunoco ethanol plant in Volney.
Linde North America has begun production and produces 600 tons of carbon dioxide a day at the Volney plant in Riverview Business Park off Route 57.
Sunoco’s Volney plant uses about 41 million bushels of corn, much of it grown locally, to produce about 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. More than 65 workers are employed by Sunoco, Linde and the project’s other on-site partner-suppliers.
The Sunoco ethanol plant directly employees 60 people: 50 hourly workers and 10 salaried employees, said Thomas Golembeski, manager of corporate communications for Sunoco.
Golembeski said the Linde facility is located right next to Sunoco’s ethanol plant. “We send carbon dioxide to the Linde facility by pipeline where they process the CO2 and sell it into the various markets,” he said.
Linde’s plant, which produces carbon dioxide for use in food, beverage and chemical manufacturing, captures the gas emissions from the ethanol plant that would otherwise be vented into the atmosphere. Linde purifies and liquefies the gas for sale to customers located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England.
This plant is the latest addition to Linde’s network of more than 30 carbon dioxide plants across the United States. The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide.