INA chooses Futurol technology licensed by Axens for its 2G ethanol project in Croatia

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The Croatian Oil & Gas Company INA-Industrija nafte d.d. Zagreb (INA) has awarded Axens a license agreement to supply Futurol™ cellulosic ethanol technology and a contract for basic engineering design of an advanced bioethanol production plant in Sisak (Croatia).
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Last January, DSEC announced the signature of a basic engineering contract with INA, covering the OSBL portion of the plant to be built in Sisak. Now, new details of the project have been unveiled in the press release of Axens. Futurol™ technology will enable INA to produce 55,000 tons per year (equivalent to 70 million liters) of advanced ethanol in synergy with green energy production. The facility will be fed with lignocellulosic feedstocks such as agricultural residues and the energy crop Miscanthus.


The Futurol™ Technology

Commercialised by Axens, the Futurol technology converts biomass from agricultural and forest residues into cellulosic bioethanol through enzymatic conversion and fermentation. This technology combines several integrated stages, including the onsite enzymes production.

Futurol has been developed since 2008 by a consortium of eleven partners, including R&D, industrial and financial actors, whose expertise cover the whole production chain, from the biomass resources to the  bioethanol: ARD, IFP Energies nouvelles, INRA, Lesaffre, Office national des forêts, Tereos, Total, Vivescia, Crédit Agricole Nord Est Participations, CGB, Unigrains.

A pilot plant located in Pomacle-Bazancourt (Procethol-2G) and a commercial scale pretreatment unit implemented in the Tereos facility in Bucy-Le-Long allowed validating the different stages of the technology. ARD acquired Procethol-2G on November 1, 2018.

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