| Project Owner... |
Lignol Innovations Ltd.
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| Project name |
pilot
|
| Status |
operational
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| Startup |
2009
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| Country |
Canada
|
| Street |
101 - 4705 Wayburne Drive
|
| City |
Burnaby
|
| ZIP |
V5G 3L1
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| State |
British Columbia
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| Type |
TRL 4-5 Pilot
|
| Technology |
Fermentation
|
| Raw Material |
lignocellulosics
|
| Input 1 |
hardwood & softwood residues (1 t/d)
|
| Output 1 |
cellulosic ethanol (30 t/y
)
|
| Output 2 |
lignin
|
| Total Investment |
CAD 20,000,000
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| Technology Brief |
Lignol Innovations is commercializing its unique integrated cellulose to ethanol process technology for biorefining ethanol (fuel alcohol), pure lignin and other valuable co-products from renewable and readily available biomass. The technology is based on original ‘Alcell’ biorefining technology that was developed by General Electric and Repap Enterprises at a cost of over $100 million. The Lignol delignification process was first developed by General Electric Corp. in the early 1970s to produce ethanol and organosolv lignin to be used as a clean burning gas turbine fuel. The process was subsequently applied to the pulp and paper industry, commercialized by Repap Enterprises between 1987 and 1997 to generate wood pulp. Repap refocused the Alcell delignification process as a pulping process in which lignin (the natural glue in wood) was removed, and following bleaching, produced a 100% cellulose/hemicellulose wood pulp.
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| Additional Information |
Pilot (estimated capacity 10K gpy) open Q2 2009. Facility moved to Burnaby from Vancouver. Pilot operated on a campaign basis. Company now in receivership (August 2014)
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|
Michael Rushton
mrushton@lignol.ca
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Last Update: 2015-10-25 07:29:43
