USA: DSM and POET Plan to Make Advanced Biofuels a Reality by 2013
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
Global life sciences and materials sciences company Royal DSM and POET, one of the world's largest ethanol producers, have announced a joint venture to commercially demonstrate and license cellulosic bio-ethanol. By the second half of 2013, POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC will start to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn crop residue through a biological process using enzymatic hydrolysis followed by fermentation.
As one of the world's largest producers of corn ethanol, POET has been actively developing cellulosic bio-ethanol for more than a decade, while DSM already has a unique position in the development of cellulosic ethanol as the only company offering both yeast and enzyme solutions to increase conversion rates to make the technology commercially viable.
The first commercial demonstration of the technology will be at Project Liberty, one of the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants in the United States. The initial capacity is expected to be 20 million gallons in the first year, growing to approximately 25 million gallons per year. If the technology is replicated at POET's network of 27 existing corn ethanol plants, which is part of the venture’s plan, it could produce up to one billion gallons of cellulosic bio-ethanol per year.
POET-DSM also intends to replicate and license the technology to other producers across the globe.
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