Futurol : a Step Further Towards Sustainable Mobility with Cellulosic Ethanol

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1 Futurol : a Step Further Towards Sustainable Mobility with Cellulosic Ethanol 2 nd Generation Bioethanol & Biorefining Workshop Nov 29 th Nov 30 th, 2017, Campinas, Brazil Jorge Martinez Gacio 1

2 Axens Group in Brief 5 markets covered Refining Petrochemicals Gases Alternatives & Renewables Water over 2,800 industrial units under license over 2,000Process furnaces kg over 60,000 tons of catalysts and adsorbents produced each year Offices in 15 different countries all over the world 9 Production Sites over 450 Modular units Axens was created in 2001 through the merger of Procatalyse with the Technology Licensing & Service Division of IFP Energies nouvelles. In 2017, Axens successfully acquired more than 88% of Heurtey Petrochem, including its fully owned subsidiary, Prosernat 2

3 Axens Group: a Worldwide Presence FRANCE Rueil-Malmaison (HQ) Salindres Solaize Vincennes La Défense CANADA Brockville, Ontario ROMANIA RUSSIA Bucharest Buzau Moscow St. Petersburg KAZAKHSTAN Almaty SOUTH KOREA Seoul Axens Offices Production sites JAPAN Heurtey Group Offices Production sites Support / Sales offices Tokyo CHINA Beijing UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Houston, Texas Princeton, New Jersey Willow Island, West Virginia Savannah, Georgia Calvert City, Kentucky O Fallon, Missouri Los Angeles, California Tulsa, Oklahoma INDIA New Delhi Mumbai Vadodara BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro SAUDI ARABIA Dammam UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Dubai MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur BAHRAIN Manama FuturolTM - 2nd Generation Bioethanol & Biorefining Workshop Nov 29th Nov 30th, 2017, Campinas, Brazil 3

4 Axens presence in Brazil 1978 First Licensed Unit Start-up 45 References as of August Refining & Petrochemical sites as of August ,400T 296,000 bbl/d of Catalysts & Adsorbents on running units of desulfurized FCC gasoline produced by Axens licensed units 4

5 Sustainable Mobility: Biofuels Policies in the World Production (Mbpdoe) #1 strategy to reduce transport CO 2 emissions Advanced Biofuels targets for 2030 Actions by required to stay on track with a 2 C scenario Ethanol HVO FAME Advanced Biofuels x12 57 Bl by 2025 by 2025 Sources : IEA 2017 Energy Technology Perspectives and IEA 2016 World Energy Outlook 5

6 Passenger cars Outcomes of 2017 IEA scenarios Global technology penetrations in LDV stocks according to 2017 IEA scenarios (million vehicles) Sources : IEA 2017 Energy Technology Perspectives 6

7 Ethanol Value Chain Axens Portfolio Lignocellulosic Biomass Futurol ENZYMATIC CONVERSION Isobutenes ETBE ETHERIFICATION Gasoline Octane Booster Sugars 1G FERMENTATION Ethanol Atol ALCOHOL TO OLEFINS Gasoline E10 / E100 Ethylene BioButterfly Project ALCOHOL TO OLEFINS Butadiene Future Biobased Technologies? 7

8 Futurol Technologies : Futurol Project Futurol R&D Partners: 8

9 Zoom on Futurol Process 1 PRETREATMENT Regularity Standardization step Low moisture High C5 yield and C6 digestibility Lignocellulosic Biomass 4 PRODUCTS RECOVERY Energy and process integration: Self-sufficiency Water/stillage direct recycle Ethanol CO 2 Lignin Stillage 2 BIOCATALYSTS PRODUCTION On-site production Tailor-made enzymes/yeasts High resistance to inhibitors Fully adapted to substrate 3 HYDROLYSIS & FERMENTATION One-pot process CAPEX and OPEX minimization Full C5 and C6 sugars conversion High ethanol yield and content 9

10 Futurol R&D Tools Pilot 2015 & Industrial 2015: Capacity: 100 m 3 fermentors Enzymes Production Step 2016: Capacity: 100 dry tpd Location: Bucy-le-Long, France Biomass Pretreatment Step Multi-feedstock Capacity: 1 dry tpd / 100,000 l/y Location: Pomacle, France Full process chain m 2 facility Multi-feedstock 10

11 Focus on Feedstock Flexibility Technology Development Stage: Representative biomass selection Biomass handling & standardization On-site biocatalysts production & propagation Adapted design (volume, installed power,.) Technology Validation Stage: Biomass Portfolio expansion Rice Straw Corn Cob/Stover Bagasse / Straw & more to come! 11

12 Ensuring Technology Scalability Straw Wood Pretreatment Unit (100 tpd) Pretreated Biomass Enzymes Production (100 m 3 ) Scalability validation Scalability validation Pilot Plant (1 tpd) Continuous processing Support to performance guarantees 12

13 Futurol TM : A Solid Pathway to Cellulosic Ethanol Feedstock Flexibility Robust Biomass Pretreatment One-pot SSCF Process Taylor-made Biocatalysts Integrated & Self-Suficient Process Full Coversion of C5/C6 Sugars Technology Validation By Industrial Scale Up On-site Enzyme Production 13

14 Thank you! And see you on Axens Blog axens.net/blog 14