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BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESS UTILIZING CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC MICROORGANISMS FOR THE CHEMOSYTHETIC FIXATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND/OR OTHER INORGANIC CARBON SOURCES INTO ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, AND THE GENERATION OF ADDITIONAL USEFUL PRODUCTS

  • US 20130078690A1
  • Filed: 05/12/2010
  • Published: 03/28/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A biological and chemical process for the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide and/or other sources of inorganic carbon, into organic compounds, comprising:

  • introducing carbon dioxide gas, either alone and/or dissolved in a mixture or solution further comprising carbonate ion and/or bicarbonate ion, and/or introducing inorganic carbon contained in a solid phase into an environment suitable for maintaining chemoautotrophic organisms and/or chemoautotroph cell extracts; and

    fixing the carbon dioxide and/or inorganic carbon into organic compounds within the environment via at least one chemosynthetic carbon fixing reaction utilizing obligate and/or facultative chemoautotrophic microorganisms and/or cell extracts containing enzymes from chemoautotrophic microorganisms;

    wherein where the chemosynthetic carbon fixing reaction is driven by chemical and/or electrochemical energy provided by electron donors and electron acceptors that have been generated chemically and/or electrochemically and/or or are introduced into the environment from at least one source external to the environment.

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