(NAFB.com) – ADM marked the operational start of a new carbon capture and storage project at its Columbus, Nebraska, corn processing complex. It’s now the world’s largest bioethanol carbon capture facility. The project leverages Tallgrass’s Trailblazer pipeline to transport captured carbon dioxide from ADM’s ethanol plant in Columbus to Tallgrass’s Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub for safe, permanent storage deep underground. The pipeline is formerly a 400-mile natural gas transmission line and runs through Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska. It’s capable of transporting over ten million tons of CO2 a year, which is the equivalent of removing more than two million passenger vehicles from the roads, or about 25 percent of all the registered motor vehicles in the three states combined. Tallgrass also built a lateral line connecting ADM’s facility to the pipeline system using only voluntary easements from landowners. “This project proves that impact grows from local roots,” said Alison Nelson of Tallgrass.
