{"id":409,"date":"2019-09-05T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2019\/09\/05\/waste-gas-energy-potential-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:22:38","slug":"waste-gas-energy-potential-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/energy-technology-greenport\/waste-gas-energy-potential-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste gas energy potential revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-year research programme involving the Marseille Fos Port Authority and 12 partners has confirmed the commercial potential of recycling untreated industrial CO2 emissions via a new seaweed-based biological process to produce biomass energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Vasco2 experiment was centred in the Fos industrial zone and included companies based there together with leading research institutes.<\/p>\n<p>Initial tests were carried out in 10m2 x 160m2 cultivation basins, with the product ultimately refined into biofuel at the Total research centre earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In April, cultivation was stepped up in 3,000m2 lagoons and the results supported the ambition to produce and store the waste gas for biomass transition.<\/p>\n<p>The port authority is now leading discussions to launch the last stage of the project, which aims to demonstrate the viability of the process on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A port-led recycling project has revealed the energy potential from waste gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}