Carbon dioxide removing from industrial exhaust

The combustion of fossil fuels must produce carbon dioxide as a product, but does the carbon dioxide have to go into the atmosphere The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) does not think so it has started a dialogue and research program that unites the government with academia and industry to develop technologies to "sequester" or trap carbon dioxide. In the simplest case, carbon dioxide is removed from the exhaust gas before the gas is emitted into the atmosphere. In more complex scenarios, carbon is removed from hydrocarbon fuels before combustion, producing hydrogen, which then becomes the primary fuel for the plant. 

For fuel applications, a popular SBO derivative is methyl soyate (SBO methyl ester, also known as Soy Gold) (J). This biodiesel has several advantages over diesel fuel from petroleum sources because it is biodegradable, has a high flash combustion temperature, contains negligible amount of sulfur, is neutral with respect to carbon dioxide emission, and can potentially reduce many harmful exhaust emissions. Methyl soyate is also an increasingly useful industrial solvent for grease removal. 

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