INEOS Bio conducts waste-to-ethanol feasibility study
Wed 04 November 2009
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INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has begun a feasibility study for a plant based in the North-East, to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into road transport fuel and clean electricity.
The company's £3.5 million feasibility study, involves detailed engineering design work for a plant at the company’s Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley.
The study is backed by a £2.2 million grant from the Regional Development Agency, One North East, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
The company hopes the feasibility study will lead to the construction of a commercial ethanol plant at Seal Sands. Subsequent expansion could turn the initial plant into a fully integrated biorefinery by 2015.
The Ineos Bio process is a combined thermochemical and biochemical technology for the production of ethanol and renewable power from a wide range of low-cost carbon materials, including biodegradable household and industrial wastes. In the anaerobic fermentation step naturally-occurring bacteria converts gases derived directly from biomass into ethanol. The process supports high recycling and high landfill diversion rates.
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