| Project Owner... |
Clariant
|
| Project name |
Clariant Romania
|
| Status |
idle
|
| Startup |
2021
|
| Country |
Romania
|
| City |
Podari
|
| Type |
TRL 8 First-of-a-kind commercial
|
| Technology |
PVC5: Alcohol fuels from cellulosic sugars
|
| Technology additional information |
Clariant "sunliquid" technology
|
| Raw Material |
agricultural residues
|
| Input 1 |
wheat and other cereal straw (250,000 t/y
)
|
| Output 1 |
ethanol (50,000 t/y
)
|
| Funding Explanation |
EU FP7 and BBI JU H2020 funding
|
| Technology Brief |
sunliquid is an innovative biotechnological method for manufacturing cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues such as cereal straw, corn stover or sugarcane bagasse. In the completely integrated process, highly optimized, raw material-specific biocatalysts decompose cellulose and hemicellulose in high yields under stable processing conditions into fermentable sugar. The process-integrated production of the biocatalysts offers flexibility and reduces production costs. In the next step, an optimized fermentation organism simultaneously converts C5 and C6 into ethanol with high yields and short reaction times. A highly optimized purification process is instrumental in enabling all the energy required for the process to be derived from the process byproducts like insoluble lignin.
|
| Additional Information |
Strategic review concluded: Board of Directors has decided to close bioethanol plant in Podari, Romania, and to downsize related activities in Germany
|
|
sunliquid@clariant.com
www.sunliquid.com
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Last Update: 2025-02-11 14:10:49