Bio-aromatics technology developer, Anellotech, along with its engineering partner, IFPEN\/Axens, announced late last month that it has completed a successful continuous performance test of the TCat-8 pilot plant as part of unit commissioning in Silsbee, Texas. The test involved continuous injection of MinFree(tm) woody biomass feedstock and production of BTX and other chemical by-products. The objective is to demonstrate steady control and operation of the reactor, stripper and regenerator fluid bed systems with continuous catalyst circulation at design pressures and temperatures.<\/p>\n
This operating milestone is the outcome of a 3-year collaboration in design, project management, construction and start-up work with IFPEN, Axens, Johnson Matthey, Southampton Resources, and other key advisors of Anellotech.<\/p>\n
Additional tests are planned to complete the commissioning phase and then commence process development studies to acquire data for commercial scale-up and design of the process.<\/p>\n
Anellotech also noted it received a $0.8m equity investment from a new, confidential strategic partner, raising the company\u2019s total equity and R&D funds to $3.2m since its last funding update in October 2016.<\/p>\n
The Bio-TCat process enables production of aromatic chemicals, benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) from non-food biomass. Bio-TCat co-products, C9+ aromatics and carbon dioxide can also be used to make jet and ethanol biofuels, respectively, via 3rd party technology. The key advantage of Bio-TCat according to the company is its MinFree biomass pretreatment followed by a one-reactor catalytic process. The reactor uses mild hydrotreating to remove trace impurities using existing oil refining technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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