In Germany, Global\u00a0Bioenergies has completed construction of its 100 tons\/year demonstration-scale plant, a project which commenced in mid-2015.<\/p>\n
It is located in the facility owned by the Fraunhofer CBP, on the Leuna refinery platform. It was financed in part by the German federal ministry for research through a grant of \u20ac5.7m, and also through a \u20ac4.4m loan obtained from a consortium of French banks (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, BNP-Paribas, CM-CIC and BPI).<\/p>\n
The Demo plant will allow the conversion of various resources (industrial-grade sugar from beets and cane, glucose syrup from cereals, second generation sugars extracted from wheat straw, bagasse, wood chips.), into high-purity isobutene.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Isobutene is a platform molecule. In the fuel sector, it is presently used to manufacture isooctane, ETBE and MTBE which are valuable compounds used in gasoline mixes. It can also be converted into isododecane, a compound found in jet fuel. Isobutene is also used to manufacture a wide variety of materials and chemicals such as rubbers, plastics, organic glass, paints and cosmetics. Scaling-up Global Bioenergies\u2019 technology to commercial scale will enable significant carbon footprint reductions in these key industrial domains.<\/p>\n
The Global Bioenergies Backstory
\nGlobal Bioenergies JV awards engineering contract for isobutene plant to Technip and IPSB<\/p>\n
Global Bioenergies teams up with Swedish partners for bio-based gasoline project<\/p>\n
Global Bioenergies and Clariant announce first isobutene production from wheat straw hydrolysate<\/p>\n
The Multi-Slide Guide
\nRenewable light hydrocarbons: The Digest\u2019s 2016 8-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies<\/a><\/p>\n