Sustainability

Connecting carbon capture to agriculture.

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is one of the ways that society will attempt to combat climate change and meet its objective of keeping human-generated carbon dioxide (CO₂) out of the atmosphere. AG Gas is a forward-thinking ag-tech company that is committed to contributing to carbon capture (CCUS), specifically through leveraging the benefit of CO₂ in agriculture.  

Conventional methods for CO₂ enrichment, such as using burners, counteract CCUS efforts. Burners generate new CO₂ in addition to other harmful chemicals such as Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ethylene (C2H4), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can be harmful to plants and can be dangerous for those working around them. Burners also rely on fossil fuels and present a significant fire risk.

AG Gas uses high purity CO₂ sourced from otherwise uncontrolled gas released from industrial applications into the atmosphere and instead uses it to enrich an agricultural environment. Enriching a plant’s growing environment with additional CO₂ leads to increased crop growth and additional carbon storage within the plant’s biomass. An added environmental benefit of CO₂ enrichment is that plants use water more efficiently. 

AG Gas remains committed to CCUS efforts and is actively working with developers of new CO₂ capture technologies to help turn the problem of CO₂ into an economic and environmental opportunity.