A Merchant Take on the Carbon Dioxide Industry

The global merchant CO2 industry supports about 22 million metric tons of consumption annually. The U.S. is responsible for 40 percent of that volume, with the ethanol industry amounting for the highest percentage of merchant CO2 supply.The global merchant CO2 industry supports about 22 million metric tons of consumption annually, of which the U.S. makes up over 40 percent of. Second in total tonnage is Europe, followed by Japan. It’s fair to say the merchant CO2 industry in the U.S. is slightly over 9 million tons annually. The ethanol industry accounts for the highest percentage of merchant CO2 supply—product coming from adjacent refining plants—than any other industrial source; approximately 45 percent of the roughly 110 merchant CO2 sources with liquefaction/purification plants have supply arrangements with adjacent ethanol facilities…