Holmgaard said, “Calling dry ice production carbon neutral is hardly justifiable unless production efficiency increases significantly. The best results are achieved by implementing co2 recovery, the effect would be that significant global demand of dry ice could be met by using half the CO2 that is used today.”
Holmgaard, who has been in the dry ice industry for the last 19 years, also recognises the environmental impact that dry ice production can have and strongly believes that this needs reducing, “The European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) for example, report on environmental impacts of carbon dioxide in dry ice production. The publication details, the impact on the environment and provided guidelines on how to reduce the environmental impact.”
“Smaller dry ice plants are not usually equipped for recovery of CO2 gas. Nevertheless, the gas industry should have a policy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the dry ice production units as part of the commitment to climate change.”
“CO2 recovery has mainly been part of large dry ice production, but [recent] changes calls for new solutions for dry ice producers.”
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