Project ChemCell Ethanol

Project Owner... Borregaard Industries AS  
Project name ChemCell Ethanol  
Status operational  
Startup 1938  
Geodata
Country Norway  
City Sarpsborg  
ZIP 1701  
Production
Type TRL 9 Commercial  
Technology PVC5: Alcohol fuels from cellulosic sugars  
Technology additional information Borregaard technology  
Raw Material lignocellulosics  
Input 1 sulfite spent liquor (SSL, 33% dry content) from spruce wood pulping (400,000 t/y )  
Output 1 ethanol (15,800 t/y )  
Additional Information
Technology Brief Pulp for the paper mill is produced by cooking spruce chips with acidic calcium bisulfite cooking liquor. Hemicellulose is hydrolyzed to various sugars during the cooking process. After concentration of the SSL, the sugars are fermented and ethanol is distilled off in several steps. A part of the 96% ethanol is dehydrated to get absolute ethanol.  
Additional Information Borregaard technology  
Contact Information
Gisle Lohre Johansen, Vice President NBD and R&D, gisle.l.johansen@borregaard.com  
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