Gevo announces production milestones achieved at Luverne isobutanol plant
January 11, 2017
| Meghan Sapp
In Colorado, Gevo provided an update on the operations of its production facility in Luverne, MN for the fourth quarter of 2016.
Key highlights for the quarter included:
- ¥ Produced approximately 190,000 gallons of isobutanol, the highest quarterly production level in Gevo’s history, representing an annualized rate of over 750,000 gallons per year;
- ¥ Demonstrated an isobutanol fermentation production capacity of approximately 1.5 million gallons per year based on the results measured across the last 6 weeks of production in the quarter;
- ¥ Produced a record number of batches in a quarter since switching the Luverne Plant to the Side-by-Side mode of production (“SBS”), achieving Gevo’s targeted back-to-back 5-day turnaround batch times over much of the quarter;
- ¥ Surpassed production cost targets, demonstrating variable costs of production of less than the targeted $3.00-3.50 per gallon; and
Ethanol production continued to operate well in the SBS configuration of the plant, with 2.8 million gallons of ethanol produced in the quarter.
Category: Fuels
