Sainc Energy plans to build an advanced biorefinery in Andalusia
Type of post: NEWS.
According to a recent press
release from Chemelot
Inscite, Innovación Verde Sostenible SL (IVS, Seville), a wholly
owned subsidiary of Sainc Energy (Sainc, London), has secured a lease on land to set an advanced biorefinery
in Andalusia (Spain).
Project details
Location
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Province
of Cordoba (Andalusia, Spain)
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Feedstock
and processing capacity
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75,000
tons of lignocellulosic dry biomass.
It will
be procured locally.
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Products
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First
stage: platform products of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The
technology to be used will deliver high purity fractions.
Cellulose
will be made available to the pulp and cellulosic ethanol industries.
Plans are
afoot for producing xylitol from hemicellulose.
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Technology
|
The
biorefinery will be based on Abengoa technology (definitive terms of purchase
are close to finalization).
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Construction
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The
biorefinery construction will be handled by Urva Fluidos SL.
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Projected
CAPEX
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75-90 M€.
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Timeline
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The
company is now in the process of filing an environmental permit. It is expected
to be approved by February 2019.
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Scale
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Sainc has
designed the biorefinery to medium scale in order to impact at local level in
a relevant way.
The plant
will be easily scalable up for larger sizes.
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Figure 1. Sainc Energy plans to build an
advanced biorefinery in Cordoba
Evaluation of an innovative
lignin valorisation technology
Sainc and Vertoro
(start-up company from the Netherlands) will collaborate to integrate a crude
lignin oil (CLO) conversion technology (currently, exclusively licensed to
Vertoro) at the design stage of the biorefinery. Developed as part of the Lignin
RICHES consortium by scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and DSM,
this propriety CLO process, is being evaluated at pilot scale at the
Brightlands Chemelot Campus.
To know more about this technology: “InSciTe’s
crude lignin oil is taking steps towards commercialisation”, 25/9/2018.
Vertoro has signed a letter of intent to take off
lignin from the Cordoba site for a period of 10 years. It will license the CLO
technology to all the plants of IVS in Spain and, by agreement, in other
countries.