24 September 2014
DETAILS
the 100% Brazilian industrial biotech company,
has initiated production at
the first commercial-scale plant
for second-generation (2G) ethanol
in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Bioflex 1, unit built
in São Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, Brazil,
has an initial production capacity of
82 million liters of ethanol per year.
The 2G ethanol produced by GranBio
is the cleanest fuel produced on a commercial scale
in the world in carbon intensity
- 7.55 gCO2/MJ, an indicator confirmed by
the Air Resources Board (ARB), from California.
The calculation takes into account factors starting
with the harvest of the raw material,
through inputs and energy consumption, transportation and
distribution through a port in California.
No other fuel produced on a large scale
is better for the environment and
reversing climate change than that of GranBio,
the first producer of 2G ethanol
to have the carbon footprint approved by the
American agency.
GranBio’s facility uses the
* PROESA® pre-treatment technology from
the Italian company
BetaRenewables (a company in the M&G Group),
* enzymes from Novozymes in Denmark, and
* yeast from DSM in Holland.
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