75000 Tons Per Annum - 2G Lignocellulosic Biorefinery

Production of platform products - lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose
By: Sainc Energy Limited
LONDON - Sept. 11, 2018 - PRLog -- 75,000 tons Dry Biomass feed 2G Biorefinery

Sevilla (Spain) and Geleen (the Netherlands)
INNOVACION VERDE SOSTENIBLE, SL, of Sevilla, Spain, currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Sainc Energy Limited of London, UK, has secured a lease on land to develop a 75,000 tons dry biomass feed 2G biorefinery in Cordoba province of Andalusia, Spain. The company is now in the process of filing an environmental permit, which it hopes to get by the end of February, 2019. The projected capex of the plant is from €75-90 million .

The biorefinery will be using Abengoa technology that it, from its side, has currently committed to purchase. Definitive terms of which are close to finalization. The biorefinery will designed to accommodate downstream equipment to evaluate innovative lignin valorisation technologies. To this end, a strategic cooperation agreement, between IVS/Sainc Energy and Vertoro, a start-up company from the Netherlands, is underway. The biorefinery construction will be handled by the well respected and experienced Andalusian company construction company - URVA FLUIDOS SL. The biomass will be procured locally.

Specific objective of this collaboration is to integrate a specific lignin oil (CLO) conversion lignin technology, currently exclusively licensed to Vertoro, at the design stage of the biorefinery, so as to maximize possible synergies. Developed as part of the InSciTe consortium Lignin RICHES by scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and DSM, the propriety CLO process, will be evaluated at first at pilot scale at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in the south of the Netherlands already in 2018-2019 and, at the same location, at demo scale by 2021-2022.

Sainc has designed the biorefinery to medium scale so as to develop systems that can be comfortably developed and implanted, from a capex angle, in developing countries to permit localisation of local fuel sources and hence promote localised development. On the other hand, the plant will easily be scaled up for larger plants that is more of a rule in Europe and the USA.

The first stage of the biorefinery will focus on platform products of cellulose, hemicellulose, and high purity lignin, as well as CLO. Cellulose will be made available to the pulp- and cellulosic ethanol industry. Plans are afoot for producing xylitol from hemicellulose. The technology to be used will deliver high levels of purity of each product and of the desired fibre lengths. Vertoro has signed a letter of intent to take off lignin from the Cordoba site for a period of 10 years. The lignin will be processed to CLO at aforementioned pilot and demo plants in the Netherlands. Vertoro will licence the CLO technology to all the plants of IVS in Spain and by agreement, in other countries.

Kamaljit Sood, the founder chairman of Sainc Energy says that he is committed to developing a sustainable energy economy for our planet, and  facilitate the development of local communities by developing sufficiently small but profitable projects of clean energy that helps setting up of anchor economic activity, and thus  create local long term jobs and hence provide the incentive to develop vibrant local communities through sport and creative arts. This is what the biorefineries will help provide as anchor activity.

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About Sainc Energy


Sainc Energy is a developer of clean energy, both electricity and liquid fuels. The major focus is to avoid as much as possible, the use of  fossil fuels and reduce their consumption for the everyday needs of the people on the this planet. With this project, it is venturing into the nascent field of 2G lignocellulosic refineries that use waste biomass to produce useful and needed products for the common man. By using waste, it is helping clear the environment, create local jobs and provide useful end products for everyday consumption.

The company is actively engaged with potential partners in Spain and USA for further growth. Sainc energy currently has permits for 40 MW UNIT in Scotland and further units are under development.

http://www.saincenergy.com/

http://www.saincbiorefineries.com

About Vertoro

Vertoro, founded in May 2017, is a spin-out of the Chemelot Institute for Science & Technology (InSciTe). Vertoro primarily focuses on the (further) development and commercialization of technology to produce crude oil from (residual streams of) biomass. Development of downstream crude oil applications, such as materials, chemicals and fuels will be mainly through third parties. Vertoro aspires to become the oil baron of the 21st century.

www.vertoro.nl

About InSciTe

The Chemelot Institute for Science & Technology (InSciTe) is a public-private research and technical validation institute for biomedical materials and biobased materials to make materials smarter. From its base in the south of the Netherlands, Chemelot InSciTe rises to the challenges facing our world today: it develops solutions for the sustainable health of an ageing population and for the sustainable production of chemicals and materials. Founding fathers Royal DSM, Maastricht University and University Medical Center, Eindhoven University of Technology and the Province of Limburg invite industrial and academic partners around the world to join them in developing healing biomedical materials for high quality, affordable healthcare, and processes to produce biobased materials from renewable raw materials that do not compete with the food chain. With its physical nucleus at Brightlands Chemelot Campus, Chemelot InSciTe enables entrepreneurship, expertise, experimentation and education in an open innovation network.

www.chemelot-inscite.com

About Brightlands Chemelot Campus

Brightlands Chemelot Campus is a world-leading innovation location in smart materials and sustainable manufacturing and home to a vibrant and fast-growing open community of ground breaking companies and knowledge institutes.

Brightlands Chemelot Campus is a unique location for innovative start-ups and corporations, forward-thinking knowledge institutes, daring entrepreneurs, brilliant researchers, talented students and visionary investors.

www.brightlands.com

Media Contact
Kamaljit Sood
kss@saincenergy.com
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Tags:Biorefinery, Lignocellulosic, 2g, Lignin, Cellulose, Hemicellulose, Xylitol
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Seville - Andalucia - Spain
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