by Sam A. Rushing, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. | (Jim Lane (The Digest).
This article on CO2 usage in the food industry is one in a series for the applications which are predominant and important in the carbon dioxide industry. This subject is particularly interesting to the US Corn Belt region, which contains some of the nation’s greatest region for food processing in the form of beef pork and poultry processing, also the US southeast and south central region is the nation’s largest region for poultry processing. Much of the ethanol industry is concentrated in the nation’s regions which are also the regions which are the largest for much of the meat processing at large. Such regions hold low merchant prices for CO2, as well as abundant supply of CO2 to the merchant market. Additionally, many more ethanol plants are venting CO2 to the atmosphere than those which recover for the markets. The food industry is a major consumer of CO2 worldwide, and accounts for some 40% of merchant CO2 consumption domestically…