{"id":14277,"date":"2006-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060816-07n"},"modified":"2006-08-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:00:00","slug":"xethanol-to-run-cellulosic-ethanol-plant-using-wood-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/xethanol-to-run-cellulosic-ethanol-plant-using-wood-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Xethanol to Run Cellulosic Ethanol Plant using Wood Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xethanol.com\/\" >Xethanol Corporation<\/a> has organized BlueRidgeXethanol, LLC to re-engineer its acquisition of a former medium-density fiberboard factory to become a 35 million gallon per year ethanol production plant. Currently known as Carolina Fiberboard, its name will change to Spring Hope BioFuels, LLC, and is said to be the first commercial-scale cellulose ethanol plant that will come online in the U.S.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The primary feedstock of local hardwood chips and wood waste has been established, with other lower cost feedstocks eventually being integrated into the feedstock mix. <\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated that production will reach 5 million gallons per year in about six months. Using established forest products processing technologies, the company will implement the plant&#8217;s existing pulp digesters, which are fed by a large scale, biomass pre-processing and preparation module, and the dilute acid hydrolysis technology will convert the cellulose to fermentable sugars. Enzymatic hydrolysis will be introduced as it becomes economically feasible, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that the technology that drives this plant will enable us to use feedstocks that are less expensive than corn and to efficiently convert local forest products to ethanol,&#8221; said Christopher d&#8217;Arnaud-Taylor, Chairman and CEO of Xethanol. &#8220;As always, we appreciate the support and enthusiasm of local government for our initiatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vic Kramer, a principal of Carolina Fiberboard, commented: &#8220;Our combined resources will accelerate the production timetable to meet the burgeoning demand for ethanol. Our strategy of converting a dormant industrial facility near an abundant and renewable biomass feedstock is directly in line with Xethanol&#8217;s continued philosophy. Our plant in Spring Hope, NC has installed equipment that is currently being upgraded with a plan to begin limited ethanol production in 6 months and establishes Spring Hope as the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Xethanol Corporation has organized BlueRidgeXethanol, LLC to re-engineer its acquisition of a former medium-density fiberboard factory to become a 35 million gallon per year ethanol<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14277"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}