30 November 2012
Details
Company Dupont
Construction Biorefinery facility,
Among the first and the largest
commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol
in the world
Location Nevada, Iowa, USA.
Product Cellulosic Ethanol
Capacity 30 million gallons per year
Feedstock Corn stover residues , a non-food feedstock
(consisting of corn stalks and leaves)
Investment more than US $ 200 million
Completion Mid-2014
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Goals of the Dupont Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Iowa
- Once fully operational, the facility will produce
30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.
- And its fully integrated end-to-end production system
will be available to license globally.
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Agricultural Impact
- Dupont will contact
* with more than 500 local farmers to
gather, store and deliver
* more than 375,000 dry tons of
corn stover per year
into the Nevada cellulosic ethanol facility
- The stover will be collected from an
approximate 30 mile radius around the new facility
and harvested off of 190,000 acres.
Enviromental Impact
- The use of advanced biofuels can result in
fewer greenhouse gas emission.
- An International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) compliant, peer reviewed life cycle assessment
of the Dupont biorefinery and supply chain
indicates a potential greater than 100 percent reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions compared to gasoline.
- The significant greenhouse gas reduction
is enabled by use of cellulosic co-products
as a source of renewable energy.
- The Dupont biorefinery co-products is a material
that can displace coal in facilities currentlty burning
this fossil fuel.
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Additional Feedstock
- Dupont will further adapt its cellulosic ethanol technology to
additional feedstocks.
- It is already processing switchgrass in the testing facility
it owns jointly with the University of Tennesse
near Knoxville, Tenn., USA.
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