Anhui Guozhen and Chemtex to build a cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in China with Clariant’s technology


Type of post: NEWS.

Anhui Guozhen Group (Anhui Guozhen), Chemtex Chemical Engineering (Chemtex) and Clariant have signed a license agreement on sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol technology. Anhui Guozhen and Chemtex have agreed to form a joint venture to realize a full-scale commercial biorefinery for the production of cellulosic ethanol in Anhui province with Clariant’s technology. It is the first license deal for sunliquid in China and the third overall.
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Figure 1. Anhui Guozhen, Chemtex and Clariant have signed a license agreement on sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol technology (extracted from the press release)

Location
Greenfield site in Fuyang city in the Anhui province, in the Yangtze-Huai River region in East China.
Available land (owned by the Anhui Guozhen Group) and existing infrastructure network in the surrounding will be utilized.
Feedstock
Agriculture residues (wheat straw and corn stover).
Product and production capacity
50.000 tons of cellulosic ethanol with an option to double capacity in a second phase.
It will be used in the Chinese regional fuels market as blend into gasoline to fulfill the national blending mandate.
Timeline
Detailed project evaluations and preparations for the engineering phase are well underway.
The project execution is pending a final agreement of certain government contracts for the project.

Anhui Guozhen tried to carry out a similar project with M&G Chemicals before the bankruptcy of Gruppo Mossi Ghisolfi in 2017.

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