Scottish whisky distillery to make biofuel
The Glenturret distillery in Perthshire, Scotland, producer of Famous Grouse whisky, is partaking in a demonstration project to convert boiler exhaust gas into oil that can be used as a biodiesel.
Scottish Bioenergy Ventures, which is leading the project, is embarking on an expanded algae reactor system to consume the carbon dioxide.
The next phase of the project starting in Q3 this year should see the system capable of producing approximately 6,000 litres of biofuel during the course of a year - capturing 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process.
Success could lead to a third phase, with a commercial-sized algae reactor system using the Chlorella strain of algae.
During the process, flue gas from a boiler used to heat the whisky stills is percolated through the algae within wastewater from the fermentation process.
The algae, which are contained within hundreds of glass microreactors, die and fall to the bottom of the liquid, where they can be collected and separated into oil and a protein residue.
For every 3kg of carbon dioxide that might be generated by using the biofuels produced by the process, the process itself consumes 8kg of carbon dioxide.
A local trucking firm has signed on to carry out a 100,000km trial using the biodiesel in vehicles.
Scottish Bioenergy Ventures, which is leading the project, is embarking on an expanded algae reactor system to consume the carbon dioxide.
The next phase of the project starting in Q3 this year should see the system capable of producing approximately 6,000 litres of biofuel during the course of a year - capturing 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process.
Success could lead to a third phase, with a commercial-sized algae reactor system using the Chlorella strain of algae.
During the process, flue gas from a boiler used to heat the whisky stills is percolated through the algae within wastewater from the fermentation process.
The algae, which are contained within hundreds of glass microreactors, die and fall to the bottom of the liquid, where they can be collected and separated into oil and a protein residue.
For every 3kg of carbon dioxide that might be generated by using the biofuels produced by the process, the process itself consumes 8kg of carbon dioxide.
A local trucking firm has signed on to carry out a 100,000km trial using the biodiesel in vehicles.
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