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Food processing company ADM has partnered with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) firm Puro.earth to offer CDR credits from its 800,000 tonnes-per-year carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations at its corn processing facility in Columbus, Nebraska.
The initial CDR credits are expected to be issued by year-end, pending audit completion.
Following this certification process, ADM will enter a 15-year crediting period with Puro.earth customers across multiple industries, including technology, finance, aviation, and pharmaceuticals.
ADM believes the Columbus facility is the largest bioethanol carbon capture facility globally.
Kris Lutt, ADM’s Vice-President of Innovation and Growth, said, “[Our experience] positions us to connect agricultural production with growing carbon removal markets at scale.”
Columbus’ CCS operations launched in . The facility is connected to energy infrastructure company Tallgrass’s Trailblazer pipeline, which runs through Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska and has capacity to transport more than 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually.
Biogenic CO2 is captured from ADM’s corn processing facility during ethanol fermentation, before being purified, compressed, and transported to Tallgrass’s Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. The facility produces food ingredients, fuels, and animal feed.
“From our leadership in regenerative agriculture, to our expanding capabilities in renewable natural gas, to our…work in CCS, we’re working to advance new ways in which agriculture can drive business results and power emerging lower-carbon solutions,” Lutt noted.
ADM has Class VI wells at its Decatur, Illinois CCS facility for almost a decade.
According to the Nebraska Ethanol Board, ADM’s facility is one of a total of 24 biorefineries supporting the domestic renewable energy sector.
