Lessons on the Road to GoBig: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to POET-DSM cellulosic ethanol

August 6, 2018 |

In November we reported that POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels achieved a major breakthrough in cellulosic biofuels production at its Project LIBERTY plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The company has solved the critical challenge in pretreatment, overcoming what has been the No. 1 hurdle to commercialization for producers around the world, according to their news release. Project LIBERTY is now running pretreatment at 80 percent uptime.

POET-DSM and other producers have identified the pretreatment stage in the past as the major chokepoint in commercial production. With a newly installed pretreatment system, designed by POET engineers, POET-DSM is now able to direct its attention to fine-tuning downstream processes and prepare for future licensing efforts that will spread this technology around the world.

DSM BioBased president Atul Thakrar has put together this illuminating overview of lessons learned on the road to cellulosic ethanol commercialization, which were presented at ABLC 2018 in Washington DC.

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