Danish Company Claims World’s Largest Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
A new cellulosic ethanol plant in Denmark is claiming to be the largest producer of “New Ethanol” in the world, turning wheat straw into 1.4 million gallons per year.
According to Inbicon CEO Niels Henriksen, the biorefinery in Kalundborg is producing both cellulosic ethanol and a clean lignin biofuel to replace coal. “But our renewable energy process is as important as our renewable energy products,” Henricksen says. “The Inbicon Biomass Refinery can demonstrate dramatically improved efficiencies when integrated with a coal-fired power station, grain-ethanol plant, or any CHP operation. Symbiotic energy exchange helps our customers build sustainable, carbon-neutral businesses.”
The Kalundborg refinery will be integrated with the Denmark’s largest power station. Waste steam from the power station will run the biomass refinery, increasing the refinery’s total energy efficiency to 71%. Inbicon says a variety of feedstocks can be used by the plant, including straw, corn stalks and cobs, sugar bagasse, and grasses.
According to the company, three U.S. companies have cellulosic projects in development that will each include a scaled-up Inbicon Biomass Refinery.
Sandra Broekema, manager of business development for Great River Energy, a Minnesota electric cooperative, spoke about Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, a commercial-scale Inbicon Biomass Refinery processing North Dakota wheat straw to be co-located with their new 64 megawatt Spiritwood Station.
John Gell, Director of Genesee Regional BioFuels, presented plans for a biomass business complex near Rochester, New York. His company is focused on bringing an old brown site back to life while revitalizing New York’s agriculture–processing corn stalks–transitioning to home-grown grasses. The lignin will offset coal used in existing power stations.
Peter Bendorf, PE, Integro Services Group, developing engineer for SWI Energy, plans a new 59MMgy corn-to-ethanol plant in Alton, Illinois integrated with a 20MMgy Inbicon Biomass Refinery. Utilizing the synergies of each will produce fossil-free ethanol.
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Les Blevins
Large scale doesn’t work so well with bulky less dense biomass such as straw like it does with heavy and energy rich coal. My firm has county scale biorefinery technology to bring to the DE market for production of both power and biofuels. Contact us at 785-842-1943 for more info.
Les Blevins
AAEC
Community Supported Energy (CSE) projects are somewhat similar to Community Supported Agriculture. The difference is that instead of investing in potatoes, carrots, local residents invest in locally owned energy projects that provide far greater energy security and a wide variety of other benefits.
JillR
AuraSource, Inc., a developer of clean energy technology, announced that it broke ground on a one million ton oil shale processing facility in Qinzhou, China.The AuraFuel plant will utilize the AuraFuel process which AuraSource licensed from China Chemical Economic Cooperation Center (“CCECC”). http://tinyurl.com/2dzg8md
Paul Kehroppe
We are a company venturing into Sustainable Energy in Papua New Guinea. Our company has secured vast landmasses of savanah grass and shrubs which we would like to transform into forests (aforestation) and biofuel source plantations.
If your company would like to establish a processing plant here in papua New Guinea to supply the growing markets of the Pacific including Australia and New Zealand, then, please let us know so we can start discussions for a possible joint venture.
Thank you
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