BioGasol secures second generation ethanol funding
The sum was awarded by the Danish Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program.
BioGasol received €3.6 million from the agency in December 2007 for the €35 million ($45 million) project.
In the US, BioGasol is collaborating with Pacific Ethanol to build a 2.7 mgy cellulosic ethanol demonstration-scale plant co-located with Pacific Ethanol’s 35 mgy corn-based ethanol facility in Boardman, Oregon.
The Joint BioEnergy Institute is also a partner in the project, which received $24 million from the US DoE in January 2008. The demonstration plant is expected to be completed during Q4 2009.
According to BioGasol, its biorefinery technology can be used to convert various biomass feedstocks—including wood chips, crop residues, and energy crops—into ethanol, solid fuel pellets, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and biogas.