Global Bioenergies scales up its C3 process in the BPF
Type of post: FLASH NEWS.
Global Bioenergies have just reached
a new milestone in scaling-up its C3 process converting renewable resources
into isopropanol and acetone. At the end of 2017, ARD carried out the first stage (see more
information here: “Global
Bioenergies starts scale-up of a process to transform renewable resources into
acetone and isopropanol”, 12/12/2017). The next phase (demo scale: several
cubic meters, it represents a further 20-fold increase) has been subcontracted
to the Bioprocess Pilot Facility (BPF). The
trials, which have been successfully performed, pave the way towards a first
commercial plant. The company is already engaged in concrete discussions with
major international industrialists to partner on the commercial deployment of
the process.
Figure 1. BPF fermentation pilot
modules (extracted from its web page). The scaling-up trials of the C3 process
of Global Bioenergies have been performed there.