by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Germany, Global Bioenergies has completed construction of its 100 tons/year demonstration-scale plant, a project which commenced in mid-2015.
It is located in the facility owned by the Fraunhofer CBP, on the Leuna refinery platform. It was financed in part by the German federal ministry for research through a grant of €5.7m, and also through a €4.4m loan obtained from a consortium of French banks (Société Générale, BNP-Paribas, CM-CIC and BPI).
The Demo plant will allow the conversion of various resources (industrial-grade sugar from beets and cane, glucose syrup from cereals, second generation sugars extracted from wheat straw, bagasse, wood chips.), into high-purity isobutene.
Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies worldwide, and the only one in Europe, that is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.
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