The Competitive Edge: GlobalYeast

December 5, 2019 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity?

Industrial fermentation is at the core of advanced bio economy. Fermentation is known for its versatility, but also for the intrinsic fluctuation of process performance. Fermentation is a biologic process exposed to inputs that do also vary in composition with the natural consequence of oscillation in overall performance. Existing technologies advocate a golden-rule approach or provide insights only later in the process. Other alternatives comprise the installation of expensive and often non-robust sensors, a capex and maintenance intense approach. In that sense, the capability to the act on the spot, use existing infrastructure and provide valuable insights and convert them into actionable information brings significant value to industrial fermentation industry. BioCal is our solution for industrial fermentation that brings powerful analytics and advanced control to industry shop floor.

Q: Tell us about your organization. What do you do?

GlobalYeast is an advanced fermentation service company. We supply BioCal, an industry 4.0 solution that brings on-line and real time monitoring and control to industrial fermenters.

Q: What stage of development are you?  Choose one:

Commercial stage – have mature products or services on the market.

Q: What do your technologies, products or services do and accomplish – how does it (they) work, who is it (they) aimed for?

BioCal is an advanced solution brought by GlobalYeast that monitors fermentation in real-time. BioCal brings valuable information to plant operation and supervision, translating data into actionable information. This helps the decision-making process in both operational and strategic planning, strengthening industry performance through smart changes.

The monitoring capability of sugar conversion into ethanol unveils information of paramount importance to estimate performance and optimize the process.

BioCal solution is designed for industrial fermentation in general. Ethanol producers observed significant benefits with the utilisation of BioCal. Results go from gain in yield, reduction of residual sugar, automatisation of control action to energy reduction.

Q: Competitively, what gives your technology, product or service set an edge in cost or performance, sustainability, or any other aspect, that makes it stand out from the crowd, In short, what makes it transformative?

BioCal is an advanced fermentation solution that maximizes the return on your industrial asset. Validated at the shop floor of relevant ethanol producers, it turns data into actionable information.

Alternatives in the market are either capex intensive or simply provide general good practices and procedures that do not allow for consistent process improvement.

Q: What are some of the top milestones you have accomplished in the past 3 years?

1. BioCal was tested in cane ethanol industry and showed its potential to monitor in real time the fermentation.

2. BioCal runs 24×7 in continuous corn-ethanol and provide automatic control to optimise performance.

3. BioCal closed loop control led to gains higher than 1.5% in fermentation performance as validated by industrial clients.

Q: What are some of the top milestones you will accomplish in the next 3 years?

1. BioCal to expand to new industrial fermentation markets (enzymes, beer, amino-acids).

2. BioCal to implement smart energy management functionalities.

3. Internal expansion, from current presence in the US and Brazil.

Q. Where can I learn more about GlobalYeast?

Click here to visit GlobalYeast’s website.

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