Indian-European joint venture for the first commercial scale cellulosic biorefinery in Asia - Juha Anttila Vice President, Technology
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Indian-European joint venture for
the first commercial scale
cellulosic biorefinery in Asia
Juha Anttila
Vice President, Technology
Outline of presentation Chempolis corporation Chempolis’ biorefining technology Assam Bio Refinery Private Limited (ABRPL) and its biorefinery project 2 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
Chempolis corporation
Chempolis develops and supplies sustainable,
globally patented biorefining technologies:
• formicobio™ for the production of cellulosic
ethanol and biochemicals
• formicofib™ for the production of
(non-)wood fibres
Chempolis is a privately owned company
established in 1995.
Chempolis has a biorefinery with
HQ and R&D Centre in Oulu, Finland.
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Key partners and customers of Chempolis • Chempolis, Fortum and NRL established a joint venture that will construct a formicobio™ biorefinery in Assam, India (2018) • Since 2016 Chempolis’ main owners are Finnish leading clean-energy company Fortum and a financial group Taaleri • Chempolis has MoU’s and ongoing negotiations with several customers in India and other countries. • Chempolis’ projects aim at sustainable biorefineries that convert various feedstocks into bioethanol, biochemicals and fibers. 4 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
3G formico® platform
Paper fibres
Selective fractionation of biomasses
High value
fibres
Non-food biomasses Glucose,
(Straws, bamboo, bagasse, etc.) Ethanol
Hemicellulose Products
Cellulose Sugars,
Hemicellulose Ethanol
Lignin, Platform
nutrients chemicals
Lignin Products
Lignin
Solid biofuel,
Biocoal
Products of first Nutrients
biorefineries
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Principle of the formicobio™ technology
Basic concept
In a low temperature and pressure, Pure cellulose is easily Conventional fermentation
Cellulose is purified by
biosolvent selectively dissolves main hydrolysed to glucose with of glucose to ethanol and
washing with water
components of biomass except cellulose. minor enzyme consumption separation of ethanol
Biosolvent Water
Non-food
biomass Ethanol
Cellulose Glucose
formicodeli™ Washing Fermentation &
Hydrolysis
distillation
Water
Evaporation formicopure™
Flowrate, t
Spent liquor is Washing liquors and a part of
vaporized biosolvent are distilled into Biomass 1000 (dry)
evaporated and dried.
Vaporized biosolvent is Acetic acid water and concentrated biosolvent.
Acetic acid and furfural, which are Ethanol 170
directly recycled
for re-use Furfural generated during delignification and
Acetic acid 30
evaporation, are recovered as valuable
Dry biofuel co-products
Dry, lignin-rich biofuel is Furfural 70
combusted at an on-site
Power power plant that generates Biocoal 520
plant steam and electricity for the
biorefinery.
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formicobio™ technology implementation
Co-production of cellulosic ethanol
(or sugars) and platform chemicals is
implemented using conventional machinery
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Advantages of biorefining by
formicobio™ technology
• Thanks to co-production of biochemicals, 120
more sales revenues and higher Chempolis 3G formicobio™
100
2G (pretreatment + enzymatic hydrolysis)
gross profit than by other technologies
80
• Reduced operating costs 60
• Easy hydrolysis of purified cellulose,
40
which reduces enzyme consumption
• Easy fermentation of pure glucose 20
• No CO2 emissions, no pollution, 0
and recovery of chemicals and water Revenues Operating cost Gross profit
formicobio™ enables profitable biorefining
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Assam Biorefinery Private Limited (ABRPL) ABRPL is a joint venture between Fortum, Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), and Chempolis ABRPL constructs a commercial scale biorefinery based on Chempolis’ formicobio™ technology Biorefinery will be located beside NRL’s existing oil refinery in Assam, India 9 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
Biorefinery of ABRPL Biorefinery will process 300000 t/a bamboo (on dry basis). Bamboo is available in abundance in NE India Biorefinery will produce 60 Ml/a bioethanol, 30000 t/a biochemicals and green power Produced bioethanol will be blended with gasoline Ground has been broken and production will begin in 2021 10 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
3D model of the biorefinery according to basic engineering 11 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
Laying of foundation stone of the biorefinery By Narenda Modi, Prime Minister of India, Feb 9th 2019 12 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
Ongoing ground works of the biorefinery 13 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
Summary and Conclusions Chempolis’ advanced formicobio™ technology enables profitable biorefining of Indian cellulosic biomasses (e.g. bamboo, straws, bagasse) Indian-European joint venture ABRPL has broken ground on the first commercial scale formicobio™ biorefinery Starting in 2021, ABRPL biorefinery will sustainably convert bamboo from North-East India into fuel ethanol, biochemicals, and green power 14 12th March 2019 © 2019 Chempolis. All Rights Reserved.
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