BP and DuPont launch Kingston Research
UK energy company BP and science solutions company DuPont have formed Kingston Research to focus on the commercialisation of advanced biofuel technology.
‘Biobutanol is a biofuel that can be made from all the same crops as bioethanol and can be blended into petrol at higher levels, which means that we’ll be able to introduce biofuels more quickly,’ Kingston Research general manager Luc Van Den Hemel notes. ‘In the future, it will be possible to convert bioethanol refineries to produce biobutanol, allowing this industry to make an even larger contribution to meeting the world’s energy needs.’
The £25 million (€27.5 million) purpose-built development and demonstration facility is located at BP’s Saltend site, near Hull, UK.
The BP site at Hull is also home to Vivergo Fuels, a joint venture between BP, British Sugar and DuPont. Vivergo is constructing a world-scale bioethanol facility that will begin producing bioethanol in 2010 and will play a major role in meeting the UK’s requirements for biofuels.
Since 2006, BP has announced investments of more than $1.5 billion (€1 billion) in biofuels research, development and operations. This includes partnerships with other companies to develop the technologies, feedstocks and processes required to produce advanced biofuels.
Kingston Research is constructing a facility to scale-up technology to manufacture biobutanol from renewable feedstocks. The technology package will then be provided to ButamaxT Advanced Biofuels, also a BP-DuPont joint venture based in the US, which has been formed to commercialise and market biobutanol.
The Hull, UK, partnership is working with Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and Humber and UK Trade & Investment.
‘Biobutanol is a biofuel that can be made from all the same crops as bioethanol and can be blended into petrol at higher levels, which means that we’ll be able to introduce biofuels more quickly,’ Kingston Research general manager Luc Van Den Hemel notes. ‘In the future, it will be possible to convert bioethanol refineries to produce biobutanol, allowing this industry to make an even larger contribution to meeting the world’s energy needs.’
The £25 million (€27.5 million) purpose-built development and demonstration facility is located at BP’s Saltend site, near Hull, UK.
The BP site at Hull is also home to Vivergo Fuels, a joint venture between BP, British Sugar and DuPont. Vivergo is constructing a world-scale bioethanol facility that will begin producing bioethanol in 2010 and will play a major role in meeting the UK’s requirements for biofuels.
Since 2006, BP has announced investments of more than $1.5 billion (€1 billion) in biofuels research, development and operations. This includes partnerships with other companies to develop the technologies, feedstocks and processes required to produce advanced biofuels.
Kingston Research is constructing a facility to scale-up technology to manufacture biobutanol from renewable feedstocks. The technology package will then be provided to ButamaxT Advanced Biofuels, also a BP-DuPont joint venture based in the US, which has been formed to commercialise and market biobutanol.
The Hull, UK, partnership is working with Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and Humber and UK Trade & Investment.
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