Celtic Renewables to build plant for demonstrating production of biobutanol from whisky residue
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
Celtic Renewables Ltd, a Scottish
start-up, has secured permission from Falkirk Council to build a demonstrator
plant in Grangemouth. The company has developed a ground-breaking application
for producing biobutanol based on the traditional ABE fermentation. Working
closely with Tullibardine Distillery
in Perthshire, Celtic Renewables is helping to derive value from the production
residues of the malt whisky industry in Scotland (currently produces almost
750,000 tons of draff and 2 billion litres of pot ale) by converting it into
advanced biofuel and other high value low carbon products.
Celtic Renewables has established a new public limited company (Celtic
Renewables Grangemouth PLC) specifically to deliver this plant and has launched
a funding campaign seeking to raise 5.25 M£ through a p2p investment platform: Abundance
Investment.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of the process of Celtic Renewables (extracted
from the web site of the company)
Project factsheet
Location
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Two-acre site in
Grangemouth (Falkirk, Scotland, UK).
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Feedstock
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Whisky industry
residues (draff and pot ale).
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Product and
production capacity
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Over 0.5 Ml/y
of n-butanol.
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Technology
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ABE
fermentation. The outputs from the fermentation of draff and pot ale are
butanol, acetone, ethanol, animal feed and gases (hydrogen and carbon
dioxide).
It uses a
strain of bacteria from the Clostridia Class.
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Employment
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The plant will
create 25 jobs in the local area.
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Timeline
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The
construction is due to begin in early 2018.
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The
complete information about this news: press
release.
More information about biobutanol: Biobutanol
biorefineries.