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Inbicon supplies Statoil

Denmark-based second generation ethanol producer Inbicon has begun providing fuel supplier Statoil with green fuel to meet the oil major’s roll out of a 5% ethanol blend at 100 selected petrol stations across Denmark.

Inbicon’s second generation bioethanol is made from wheat straw.

In 2009, the two companies signed an agreement for Inbicon to supply Statoil with the first five million litres of second generation ethanol produced by the Kalundborg plant, where Inbicon’s biomass conversion technology is being demonstrated.

The Inbicon Biomass Refinery in Kalundborg opened in November 2009, just ahead of the COP15 world climate summit in Copenhagen. Since then Inbicon has proven its process at near-commercial scale. The Kalundborg plant can process 4 tonnes of straw an hour, equivalent to 30,000 tonnes a year.

From this 5.4 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of second generation ethanol can be produced a year, along with two other clean, green energy streams.

‘The Inbicon Biomass Refinery can demonstrate dramatically improved efficiencies when integrated with a coal-fired power station, grain-ethanol plant, or any combined heat and power (CHP) operation. Symbiotic energy exchange helps our customers build sustainable, carbon-neutral businesses,’ CEO Pia Bach Henriksen, comments.
Inbicon is currently working with Clients in the planning of commercial facilities in North America and Asia.

Norway headquartered energy company Statoil supplies around one fifth of Denmark's total oil consumption and operates more than 300 petrol stations in Denmark.

The company's Kalundborg refinery refines oil products, which are either exported or sold in Denmark for use as, for example, transportation fuel or heating oil for private home and commercial property.




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