NER300 - BEST Project - IBP SpA
Stefania Pescarolo
Head of Public Funding
Roma, 11/12/2014
M&G - OurM&G
Group
Group: about us
Mossi Ghisolfi is a multinational, family-run
business established in 1953
by Vittorio Ghisolfi and Domenico Mossi.
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It is one of the world’s leading producers
of PET resin
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It is Italy’s 2nd largest chemical company.
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It is a forward-looking company that is
continuing to invest significant funds into
bio-fuels and green chemistry research
and development as part of its
commitment to sustainability
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Biochemtex is the M&G global
engineering and technology company
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Development Timeline
TRL5
Medium scale
prototype
Q1-2013
2011-2012
2009-2010
2006-2008
Scouting of
Technologies
Generation
of key inventions
Proof of UNIT
OPERATION
in the labs
Pilot plant
construction & start
up (Jun 2009)
Pilot Plant operation
and data gathering
Test of Plant
flexibility using
multiple biomasses
Crescentino Plant
Collaboration
Agreements with
leading partners
> 130 times scale-up
Crescentino Plant
Start-up
Official opening
October 9, 2013
TRL 7
Demo
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BEST Project - Crescentino
World’s first advanced BIOETHANOL
demonstration industrial facility
40 ktpa Ethanol plant Layout
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NER300 BEST Project – Bioethanol plant
• The Crescentino Plant is the first in the world to be designed and built to
produce bioethanol from agricultural by-products or biomass not suitable
for food consumption.
• This has been made possible thanks to PROESATM technology,
developed in the Biochemtex R&D centers.
• The expertise developed in Crescentino will enable similar plants to be built
in Europe, USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
• The project was supported by European Commission as part of its Seventh
Framework Programme for research and development
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ProesaTM - The Technology
PROESATM
Steam
Biomass
Smart
Cooking
Enzymes
Viscosity
Reduction
Ethanol
Hydrolysis &
Fermentation
Distillation
Lignin for Energy Block
ProesaTM Technology benefits:
Feedstock flexibility
Continuous process
No chemical addition
Optimal sugar extraction with
low enzyme dosage
Fully integrated process design
using continuous equipment
to enable large scale plants
Best in class technology with
lowest capex and opex backed
with performance guarantees
Crescentino Fast Facts
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Crescentino - Development Timeline
Apr 2011
Sept 2011
Nov 2012
Dec 2012
The project started in 2010, the
construction began in 2011,
inaugurated on October 2013
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BEST Project – RES – BIOg
BEST PROJECT – Second generation bioethanol
process – demonstration scale of innovative and
sustainable biotechnologic conversion of
lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol on a 51 million
litres per year plant
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NER300
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Category RES (RENEWABLES) – BIOg (BIOENERGY –
Lignocellulose to ethanol)
Date of entry into operation: 01/06/2013 (5y
duration)
Legally Binding Instrument signed on April 2014 with
the Italian Minister of Environment
Project Sponsor: IBP SpA (main EPC contractor:
Biochemtex SpA)
NER300 contribution 28.4 millions Euro (for
renewable energy of 1.414.558 MWh related to
ethanol production = 140.000 tons in five years
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BEST Project – RES – BIOg
General comments
• NER300 can be a kind of incentive to mobilize investments, especially
if timing (call, project selection and approval, …) is efficient
• In most cases does not solve the debt financing issue, but can help by
improving the overall business plan: it does help new technologies to
cover a gap of costs vs. more established technologies
• Clear/stable policy framework is today of most importance
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The concept of Biorefinery
PROESA® Cellulosic Sugar Technology
Pre-Treatment
Section
Enzymatic
Hydrolysis Section
BIOFUELS
BIOCHEMICALS
Ethanol
Bio-Jet
Butanol
Marine Diesel
Green Diesel
Fatty Alcohols
1,4 Butanediol
Farnasene
Acrylic Acid
Succinic Acid
Bio-ethylene
Bio-PE
Bio-EO/EG
Others
LIGNIN CHEMICALS
Phenols
Xylene
Terephthalic Acid
Aromatic
Aldehydes
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« The future depends only on us,
for this reason our future
is already in good hands. »
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