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Country	India
City	Numaligarh

Type	TRL 9 Commercial
Technology	Fermentation
Technology additional information	Pretreatment and Fermentation, Technology from Chempolis Finland
Raw Material	lignocellulosics
Input 1	Bamboo feedstock (300,000 t/y )
Output 1	ethanol (50,000 t/y )
Output additional information	19 000 tons of furfural, 11 000 tons of acetic acid, and 144 gigawatt hours of green energy

Partners	Chempolis, the Finnish energy company Fortum, and NRL, a state-owned Indian oil company, have formed a joint venture to construct a pioneering biorefinery in the state of Assam in Northeast India.
Technology Brief	The biorefinery will use 300 000 tons of bamboo annually from the vast natural and cultivated bamboo reserves of Northeast India. The plant will produce annually 60 million liters of bioethanol, 19 000 tons of furfural, 11 000 tons of acetic acid, and 144 gigawatt hours of green energy. The plant’s central processes will be based on Chempolis’s patented formicobio technology. Chempolis’s competitive technological advantage is a higher refining value from biomass, such as a better yield of ethanol as well as clean, marketable by-products, such as furfural and acetic acid. At the same time, the technology offers lower operating costs and, being energy net-positive, is environmentally friendly.
Additional Information	Construction of the bio-refinery began in early 2019, wherein the plant was expected to commission by April 2022. However, requirement to undertake certain changes in the project scope coupled with the execution delays that were faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed the plant’s expected commissioning date to April 2023.

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