Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy plans to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in China with Clariant’s sunliquid® technology


Type of post: NEWS.

Clariant has just announced that it has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group) for its sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol technology. This Chinese green energy company intends to build a commercial scale plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol in Heilongjiang Province (China).
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Figure 1. License agreement signing between Clariant and Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (taken from the press release)

Location

Corn-rich greenfield site near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang Province, in Northeast China, utilizing available land and existing infrastructure owned by the Sino-Dan Jianye Group.

It is the province with the largest 1G bioethanol production in China.

Feedstock and processing capacity

125,000 tons of corn stover.

Product and production capacity

25,000 tons of cellulosic ethanol.

It will be utilized in the Chinese regional fuels market as a gasoline additive to fulfill the provincial blending mandate.


Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy was formed in the early 2010s and has been involved in the second generation (2G) biofuels business and research for almost a decade making them one of the frontrunners in this field in China. This agreement marks the second license deal for Clariant’s sunliquid® technology in China and its fifth signed license deal globally.

The project is comprised of a license for a basic sunliquid® engineering package, the provision of technical services, as well as the supply of starter cultures from Clariant’s proprietary enzyme and yeast platform to process Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy’s feedstock into cellulosic ethanol. Detailed project evaluations and preparations for the engineering phase are well underway.

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