{"id":26039,"date":"2015-05-20T03:03:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2015%2F05%2F12%2Fglobal-bioenergies-produces-gaseous-isobutene-and-renewable-oil-from-sugars%2F"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T11:56:06","slug":"global-bioenergies-first-production-of-liquid-hydrocarbons-from-biological-feedstock-using-the-isobutene-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/global-bioenergies-first-production-of-liquid-hydrocarbons-from-biological-feedstock-using-the-isobutene-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Bioenergies: First production of liquid hydrocarbons from biological feedstock using the isobutene process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global\u00a0Bioenergies\u00a0announces today having converted renewable resources into\u00a0gaseous isobutene, and secondarily into liquid fuels similar to those\u00a0extracted from oil. This mix of fuels can be compared to light oil, and thus be considered as \u00ab\u00a0renewable oil\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gaseous isobutene\u00a0is one of the main building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Fifteen million tons of isobutene are\u00a0derived each year from oil, and converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers.<\/p>\n<p>Global\u00a0Bioenergies develops and scales-up a synthetic biology process\u00a0to produce isobutene alternatively, from sugar, cereals, and agricultural or forestry waste.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a batch of isobutene\u00a0produced and purified on ARD&#8217;s Pomacle-Bazancourt site, located close to Reims in France,\u00a0has been shipped in pressurized containers to the Fraunhofer Institute on the Leuna refinery platform, close to Leipzig in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>This batch has been run through an industrially relevant catalytic\u00a0unit resulting in stringing\u00a0isobutene molecules one to the other. A mix has been produced containing\u00a0isooctane (string of two isobutene molecules), isododecane\u00a0(string of three), isocetane\u00a0(string of four), as well as longer strings. These compounds are associated with large markets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isooctane is the gold standard for gasoline engines, and corresponds to \u00ab\u00a0unleaded 100\u00a0\u00bb when used pure.<\/li>\n<li>Isododecane is one of the very few bio-sourced molecules well suited to be blended in jet fuel; its registration as\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0bio-jet fuel\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0is underway in the United States of America.<\/li>\n<li>Isocetane\u00a0is a heavier fuel\u00a0that can be used as an additive for diesel engines.<\/li>\n<li>Longer molecular chains are used in the manufacturing of industrial lubricants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rick Bockrath, Vice President for\u00a0chemical\u00a0engineering\u00a0at Global\u00a0Bioenergies, states:\u00a0&#8220;Industrial fermentation of a gas such as isobutene has numerous advantages, which will translate into a reduced OPEX. We have now successfully aligned our Isobutene process with a technology leading to a liquid hydrocarbon mix resembling to light oil. Our target will now be to purify the different components of this mix. Getting high-purity isooctane\u00a0is one of the main goals of\u00a0our alliance with Audi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global\u00a0Bioenergies, concludes: &#8220;Our process, now integrated,\u00a0allows us to convert plant feedstock into liquid hydrocarbons within days, in comparison to geological eras, expressed in million years, necessary to produce oil. Through alliances with agribusiness companies, such as for example Cristal Union already present as a shareholder, this process will allow us to access an unlimited flow of &#8216;renewable oil&#8217;.\u00a0Global Bioenergies contributes through its breakthrough innovation to enhance the energy access\u00a0of human populations, while limiting CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions and thus preventing climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Global Bioenergies recently announced the start of the construction in Germany of a 100 tons\/year capacity Demo Plant, the last step before large scale commercial exploitation of its isobutene process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About GLOBAL BIOENERGIES<\/h3>\n<p>Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies worldwide, and the only one in Europe, that is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation. The Company initially focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into fuels, plastics, organic glass and elastomers. Global Bioenergies continues to improve the performances of its process, operates its industrial pilot and has begun the construction of its demo plant. The company also replicated its achievement to propylene and butadiene, two members of the gaseous olefins family, key molecules at the heart of petrochemical industry. Global Bioenergies is listed on Alternext, Euronext Paris (FR0011052257 &#8211; ALGBE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas BUHL<br \/>\nHead of Business Development<br \/>\nPhone: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 01 64 98 20 50<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:thomas.buhl@global-bioenergies.com\" target=\"_blank\">thomas.buhl@global-bioenergies.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France, Global&nbsp;Bioenergies&nbsp;announced having converted renewable resources into&nbsp;gaseous isobutene,&#8230;<\/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":[5817],"supplier":[774,2656,3130,1534],"class_list":["post-26039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-research","supplier-audi-ag","supplier-cristal-union","supplier-fraunhofer-institut-fuer-chemisch-biotechnologische-prozesse-cbp","supplier-global-bioenergies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039","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=26039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=26039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}