European Bio-Energy Projects

Fynsvaerket: The 1,000 kg/h pilot
plant for Integrated Biomass
Utilisation Systems will be
positioned at Elsams CHP power
station in Odense, Denmark.
CO-PRODUCTION
BIOFUELS
Objectives
The overall objective is to develop costand
energy-effective production systems
for co-production of bioethanol and
electricity based on Integrated Biomass
Utilisation Systems (IBUS) located on
existing CHP power stations.
The main features of the novel Integrated
Biomass Utilisation System is:
1. that is based on simultaneous utilisation
of biomass with high lignocellulose
content (e.g. straw, waste wood and
MSW), producing a surplus of electricity
and energy;
2. that the ethanol production is integrated
with existing power plants. The main
objectives are design, construction and
experiments on a small, a medium sized
and a large pilot plant.
Co-production biofuels
Challenges
The most important problems to be addressed
are that the cost of transferring grain and straw
from the field to the processing plants is too high;
that no process has demonstrated cost-effective
utilisation of the huge amount of municipal solid
waste (MSW) produced by modern societies;
that no pre-treatment method for lignocellulose
biomass is feasible; that no ethanol fermentation
process for mixtures for C5 and C6 sugars has
demonstrated feasibility; that the cost of
saccharification of pre-treated cellulose is too
high; and that implementation of new technology
in the very capital-intensive production of ethanol
and electricity is very low.
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Project structure
WP1: Construction and testing of a 100 kg/h
continuous pilot plant to compare
continuous wet oxidation and dilute acid
hydrolyses as pre-treatment processes
for lignocellulosic feedstock.
WP2: Developing and testing of a novel
simultaneous thermophilic ethanol
fermentation end recovery process on
feedstock providing C6 sugars, C5 sugars
and mixtures of C6 and C5 sugars.
WP3: Design and construction of a 1,000 kg/h
pilot plant and trials on the pilot plant
with straw, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
and residues from food industries.
WP4: Feasibility study on IBU system with
450,000 t/y molasses, straw and MSW at
an existing CPH power station.
WP5: Development of an IBU system for
400,000 t/y whole crop provided by a
novel whole crop harvesting system
and lab-scale testing of simultaneous
thermophilic ethanol fermentation and
recovery process.
WP6: Establishment of an ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) platform to
facilitate the implementation of the project
results.