Over 150 billion cubic meters (or 5,3 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas are being flared and vented annually.
• The gas flared annually is equivalent to 25 per cent of the United States’ gas consumption, 30 per cent of the European Union’s gas consumption, or 75 per cent of Russia’s gas exports.
• Flaring gas has a global impact on climate change by adding about 400 million tons of CO2 in annual emissions.*
Why not use this gas to feed the world?
Using the UniBio technology makes it possible to produce approx. 75.000.000 tonnes of UniProtein® using the gas otherwise flared. UniProtein® is comparable to high quality Fishmeal. In May 2010 one tonnes of Peru CIF Fishmeal cost USD 1.950.
Large-scale production of commodity chemicals by fermentation routes may well become one of the fastest moving enterprises of the early 21st century. Among the most promising processes is the production of animal feed from natural gas, a cheap and abundantly available natural resource.
Currently animal feed rich in protein is produced from fishmeal, but progressive overfishing of the oceans leads to rapidly increasing prices of fishmeal, and the price of e.g. aquaculture fish is consequently being driven up, thus drastically aggravating the serious nutritional problems faced by third-world populations.
We use a fermentation process for the industrial production of a product highly rich in protein. In this process methane from natural gas is used as a carbon source for a bacterial culture found in the natural habitat. The only other raw materials are O2, NH3 (or ammonia salts) and a few other minerals. This product is at least nutritionally equivalent to high-quality fishmeal (LT) and furthermore free from dioxin and heavy metals.
Professor Dr. Techn.
John Villadsen
* Source World Bank
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UniBio represented at Rio Oil & Gas 2010
From 13 September to 16 September UniBio A/S will be attending the Rio Oil & Gas Expo in Brazil. Please contact UniBio representative Mr. Peter S. Nielsen at psn@unibio.dk for more information.
For more information on the Expo, please click here.
UniBio article in Aqua Feed Magazine
Please read article in July/August issue by clicking here.
UniBio at Danish - Chinese Trade & Investment Symposium
UniBio A/S attended the above-mentioned symposium with our partner from Honghe Natural Gas Co. Ltd. Read about the symposium here.
UniBio Newsletter
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UniBio A/S signs agreement in China
UniBio A/S holds a patented technology for converting natural gas into animal feed through the production of single-cell protein (UniProtein®) and will cooperate with Chinese company Honghe Natural Gas Co. Ltd. under a license agreement to produce UniProtein® in China.
Read entire article here.
