Praj Industries has bagged an order to set up India s largest capacity
syrup based ethanol plant from a Godavari Biorefineries (GBL) in Karnataka.
As a part of this project, Praj will expand the existing ethanol manufacturing capacity to 600 KLPD, using sugarcane syrup. When commissioned, this will become India s largest capacity
syrup based ethanol plant.
The Government of India has made several strategic interventions by way of progressive policies, conducive financial mechanisms, to encourage the sugar sector to limit surplus sugar production and instead, produce more ethanol. This capacity expansion planned by GBL is in line with the Government s Biofuel policy to increase the Ethanol manufacturing
by Ahmed Abdellah (Advanced Biofuels USA)When dealing with the conversion of raw materials into biofuels and biochemicals, the first step is to break down raw materials. During this process, the raw material may go through bailing, grinding, and condensing.
Then, the material which is essentially composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin can be broken down into the building blocks of biofuels. Products and co-products may include ethanol, hydrogen, carbon char, bio-oils, flavorings, industrial glues, and other industrial chemicals.
The major biorefinery platforms are the sugar platforms and the thermochemical platforms (including syngas platform). The sugar platform breaks down biomass into component sugars. These component sugars can then undergo fermentation to produce various fuels.
by Anahita Bharadwaj (Advanced Biofuels USA) The versatile world of microorganisms is a perfect source for the production of a variety of biobased fuels, chemicals and materials. Microorganisms have the ability to break down biomass, components of these biomass or other materials (e.g., CO2, organic acids) through the process of fermentation and convert them into various value-added products.
George Washington’s distillery near Mount Vernon
The most popular among these is the conversion of biomass sugars into ethanol by yeasts… and this technology has been in use for thousands of years, first for human consumption and now, also for energy production.
by Lura Roti (SDPB Radio) Results from a recent University of Nebraska Study could dramatically increase demand for ethanol. This is optimistic news for South Dakota corn farmers, ethanol manufacturers and family farm advocates.
Redefining Renewable Fuels was a year-long study conducted by researchers from the University of Nebraska Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The study’s data shows that non-flex vehicles can safely run on higher ethanol blends, like E30 and at the same time reduce carbon emissions.
These results could have big implications for corn producers, ethanol manufacturers and our environment, explains the study’s author and lead researcher, Rajib Saha.
by Anahita Bharadwaj (Advanced Biofuels USA) Biofuels and bio-based products offer an alternate source for the production of energy and useful chemicals without the need to tap into fossil carbon. The broad idea is that carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed into biomass by plants provides the opportunity for production of various biofuels and chemicals. These, in turn, are reintroduced into the atmosphere primarily as CO2 and the process can repeat itself.
This would, theoretically, enable recycling of this existing carbon without introducing additional fossil carbon which takes an extremely long time (on a geological scale) to be fixed back into fossil fuels.