18-04: Development of enabling technologies for the biorefinery future

1.       Introduction

• A brief introduction to the company BioGasol, facts & figures, history and milestones
• The BioGasol key-technologies – why has BioGasol selected the pretreatment and C5 fermentation as the key areas for development
• The BioGasol Process concept – the baseline concept for producing Cellulosic bioethanol and how it can be modified in order to accommodate other processes
• The vision for a commercial biorefinery plant – ethanol as well as other (energy) products. The “carbon slaughterhouse” philosophy.
  • Feedstock flexibility and yields
  • Energy balance for an integrated bioethanol plant
  • The market drivers – window for technology transition from starch to biomass, from ethanol to high value products?

2.       The Pretreatment

• Biomass composition and the process
• Design drivers for process & equipment development
• BioGasol approach and proprietary solutions applied to solving key issues within the field of pretreatment
• BioGasol achievements within pretreatment, results and data
• BioGasol equipment at various throughput capacity and scaling-up road-map

3.       The C5 fermentation

• Design drivers for process & equipment development
• BioGasol approach and proprietary solutions applied to solving key issues within the field of C5 fermentation
• BioGasol achievements within the C5 fermentation
• BioGasol equipment at various throughput capacity and scaling-up road-map

4.       The road towards market application

• Process concept development
  • Bioethanol concept
  • Future concepts –process and value chain
  • Bridging the gap from R&D to industrial biorefineries.
    • BioGasol Demonstration Plant activities
    • Demonstration Plant synergies with other technologies and future applications
    • Commercial activities – at pilot cooperation, demonstration plant partnerships and industrial sales levels

5.       Closing remarks