Summary
Johanna Haggstrom is currently the Executive Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing, at LanzaTech. She leads the Technology and Manufacturing efforts and is responsible for chemical technology products, scale-up of new technologies, processes, measurements and tools, biomanufacturing, quality, budget and organizational development.
Johanna is a Research & Development Executive with >20 years of experience conducting and overseeing product development and research. Prior to joining LanzaTech, she spent more than 12 years in the energy industry at Halliburton, and most recently, she was a Director of Technology, based in Houston, TX.
Dr. Haggstrom holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Mälardalen University in Sweden and a PhD in Chemistry from Kansas State University, and she has contributed to more than 35 patents, patent applications and published papers.
Energy Solutions Forum Talk | A New Carbon Economy: Innovating to a Post Pollution Future
We currently recycle metals, plastics and paper - so why not recycle carbon?
There is an abundance of carbon locked in wastes from agriculture, forest, unsorted, unrecyclable municipal wastes and in gaseous byproducts of certain manufacturing processes. Biotechnology enables us to convert carbon pollution into everyday products, turning our carbon problem into an economic opportunity keeping the skies and oceans clean and blue for all!
LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation technology that recycles carbon rich industrial off gases from many industries into fuels and chemicals. LanzaTech’s carbon transformation solution leverages synthetic biology and AI to expand the product portfolio beyond the building block ethanol to other commodity chemicals that currently come from petrochemical feedstocks and underpin the material economy.
The potential for ethanol to be used as blend stock in gasoline has been well established for over a century. Through partnerships with consumer-facing companies such as Unilever, L’Oréal, lululemon, and the Mibelle Group, LanzaTech has demonstrated the opportunity to use ethanol as a platform CarbonSmartTM intermediate in the production of goods including fragrances, cleaning products, plastics for packaging, and fibers for clothing. By recycling carbon into ethanol rather than starting with virgin fossil fuels, the production of everyday products can benefit from a lower carbon footprint.
This presentation will address the scaling up of carbon recycling technology and what it takes to cross the Valley of Death as an innovator!