Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Canada’s Enerkem

Canada’s Enerkem has commenced start-up of its waste-to-biofuels plant in Westbury, Quebec. Construction commenced on the project in October 2007 and was completed in December 2008. The plant will produce 1.3 Mgy of ethanol from used electricity poles. The company said it has achieved commercially sustainable production rates of 95 gallons per ton of waste biomass.

The city of Edmonton has also announced a plant to convert 30 percent of their solid waste stream to ethanol, in partnership with Greenfield Ethanol and Enerkem. The Enerkem process converts dried solid waste into syngas, which is converted into ethanol in a catalytic reactor.

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