Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Ineos waste-to-ethanol

Ineos and Bioengineering Resources said last July that they will have a commercial-scale municipal waste-to-ethanol plant operational by 2011.

Bioengineering Resources is now running a 40,000 gallon per year pilot plant in Fayetteville, while Ineos said that waste conversion is cost competitive with other ethanol production techniques, and is generating 105 gallons per ton of waste.

According to the Financial Times, “BRI has been running a very small demonstration plant, capable of producing about 150,000 litres of ethanol a year in Fayetteville. Ineos believes the process is ready to be scaled up to plants producing about 100,000-150,000 tonnes per year. A tonne of ethanol is roughly 1,250 litres. The process works by taking organic waste, converting it into a gas and feeding the gases to bacteria that convert them to ethanol.”

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