DSEC signs basic engineering contract for the 2G ethanol biorefinery project of INA in Croatia
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Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) has announced the signature of an engineering
contract with the Croatian Oil & Gas Company INA-Industrija
nafte d.d. Zagreb (INA) for a 2G ethanol production plant project. It is a basic engineering
contract covering the OSBL (Outside Battery Limits) portion of a plant to be
built in Sisak, near Zagreb (Croatia).
Nota de prensa: “INA 2G-Ethanol Plant project Basic
Engineering in Croatia”, 15/1/2020.
Figure 1. General data about the biorefinery
project of INA in Sisak (extracted from “Concept of
Converting Oil Refinery to Biorefinery”, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 Workshop, University
J.J. Strossmayer, Osijek, March 27th, 2018)
The feedstocks will be locally grown miscanthus
and wheat straw. DSEC will also integrate the selected process package in the
overall project study and assess related capital and operational costs (CapEx
and OpEx). This assignment will allow INA to validate the construction of a production
facility that will contribute to Croatia's effort to meet European Renewable
Energy Directive II.
INA is a medium-sized European oil company. It
is owned by the Hungarian oil company MOL (49.08%), the Republic of Croatia
(44.84%) and institutional and private investors (6.08%). The project is aimed
to establish a sustainable industrial activity as alternative option for Sisak
oil refinery.
INA is a partner of the GRACE project financed
through BBI JU. Within the framework of this project, Clariant
conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA in
its pre-commercial plant in Straubing (“Clariant’s
sunliquid® technology proves good performance with miscanthus”, 6/9/2019).
INA has chosen Clariant’s sunliquid® technology to assess usability of
miscanthus for conversion into cellulosic sugars and ethanol.