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Technical deep dives, industry analysis, and project updates from the CleanCycleCarbon team.
Carbon dioxide is a regulated food ingredient. Beverage grade is the food safety compliance standard behind it, from FDA GRAS status and ISBT limits to per-load certificates and recall liability.
Merchant CO₂ tightens every summer as ammonia plants take maintenance and beverage demand peaks. The seasonal economics, and how buyers reduce the risk.
Purchased CO₂ is a Scope 3 line item, and how it was sourced decides the number. A look at where CO₂ lands in the GHG Protocol, why biogenic carbon is reported differently, and what documentation makes the claim hold up.
CO₂ supply risk does not stay inside procurement. Beverage and food buyers need to evaluate source quality, documentation, logistics, and backup supply.
RNG upgraders produce a concentrated CO₂ stream, but concentration is not beverage grade. The value comes from purification, testing, and documentation.
Beverage grade CO₂ is not proven by the source alone. It is proven by purification, testing, documentation, and delivery controls before the product reaches.
CO₂ buyers feel outages through freight premiums, allocation, quality risk, and downtime. How reliable beverage grade CO₂ supply protects production.
Capturing CO₂ is only the first step. For food and beverage buyers, the sustainability value only matters when the product is purified, documented.
The RFS, LCFS, and Section 45Q were built for different goals. Together they are creating the conditions for a distributed, domestic CO₂ supply chain.
Private equity is rolling up independent CO₂ distributors. For buyers who depend on competitive regional supply, the window to diversify is narrowing.
Every RNG upgrader built under the RFS or LCFS produces a concentrated CO₂ stream. RNG policy is quietly creating a distributed, domestic CO₂ supply chain.
The journey from raw industrial gas to the carbonation in your drink involves more steps than most people realize.
RNG upgraders vent tens of thousands of tons of CO₂ each year. Purified to beverage grade, that CO₂ becomes a second revenue stream most operators miss.
Most businesses never consider the emissions embedded in their CO₂ supply. Source, purification method, and transport distance all shape that footprint.
Clean carbon is becoming a buying criterion for food, beverage, and industrial CO₂ customers. What the term means and how to evaluate your supply.
Cryogenic purification is the most reliable path to beverage grade CO₂. How the process works, why temperature matters, and what it means for quality.
A conflict involving Iran could disrupt urea and ammonia markets, tightening CO₂ supply for beverage and food producers who depend on reliable domestic sources.
The US CO₂ supply chain depends on a handful of large sources. When one goes down, whole regions feel it. Distributed domestic production fixes that.
The 2022 CO₂ shortage left beverage producers scrambling and prices up 50 percent. It was a predictable failure of a supply chain built without resilience.
Beverage grade CO₂ must meet 99.90 percent purity with strict limits on moisture, sulfur, benzene, and dozens of other contaminants.
RNG upgraders vent 35 to 45 percent of their gas stream as CO₂. Purifying that byproduct to beverage grade is a fast path to new domestic CO₂ supply.
An analysis of the U.S. industrial CO₂ market: supply concentration, demand growth, pricing trends, and where new supply will need to come from.
CO₂ enrichment in greenhouses can boost crop yields 20 to 30 percent. As controlled environment agriculture scales, demand for reliable CO₂ grows fast.
Large centralized plants dominate CO₂ supply today. Distributed capture at RNG facilities offers better economics and regional supply resilience.
Cryogenic distillation and chemical absorption are the two dominant CO₂ purification methods. A technical comparison of cost, purity, and operational tradeoffs.
Food grade and beverage grade CO₂ are not the same thing. Beverage grade is stricter on benzene, acetaldehyde, and total hydrocarbons.
Biogenic CO₂ is carbon neutral. Fossil-derived is not. Learn how the source of your CO₂ affects carbon accounting, compliance, and buyer decisions.
The 45Q tax credit provides $60 per ton for CO₂ that is captured and utilized. Here is how it works, who qualifies, and how it affects project economics.
A practical walkthrough of how on-site carbon capture systems take raw waste gas and turn it into purified, beverage grade CO₂ ready for distribution.
