This presentation will address the progress and potential of a solar-driven platform for the conversion of industrial waste CO2 into chemicals of interest. Unlike processes dependent on agricultural or algal biomass, this process depends only on the availability of sunlight, waste CO2, non-potable water and non-arable land. Joule has developed a cyanobacterial chassis that efficiently partitions fixed carbon derived from industrial CO2. The platform applies engineered catalysts (cyanobacteria) to directly produce and secrete the molecules of interest as a product of photosynthetic metabolism, with no further processing required. Proof of concept has already been achieved for a number of high-value chemicals, and the platform is currently operating at demonstration scale with the production of ethanol. This talk will focus on organism and reactor engineering to achieve high productivities by gaining control over carbon partitioning to product and biomass.

Carbon-neutral chemicals from sunlight and CO

249th National Meeting (2015)

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