Post by Mr. Clean on Mar 8, 2009 10:52:52 GMT -5
Located on a 140-acre company-owned site are Verenium’s Pilot and Demostration-scale plants.
Pilot Plant:
Verenium operates a cellulosic ethanol pilot plant, a real-time research and development facility, in Jennings, Louisiana. Opened in 1999, the facility was capable of CF hemicellulose fermentations. During 2006 the company completed extensive upgrades on the pilot facility, enabling it to conduct combined C5 and C6 fermentations. The Jennings pilot facility is capable of processing approximately two tons of biomass per day into ethanol. It is operated as an R&D facility to improve the company’s process technology and to validate the company’s process on a wide variety of biomass feedstocks.
Demonstration Plant:
Next door to the pilot facility, Verenium has recently achieved mechanical completion of a 1.4 million gallon per year demonstration-scale plant - the first of its kind in the nation. Over the next few months, more than forty separate systems will be electronically energized. Operating teams have begun evaluations, and the project will move to validate the implementation of Verenium’s process and technology. By year-end, Verenium will move to fully optimize the demonstration plant.
Commercial Projects:
Preparations are being made for Verenium’s first commercial-scale facilities, which are expected to produce 30 million gallons of ethanol per year. With the optimization of Verenium’s pilot and demo plants, the commercial plant development program is underway. Currently, a variety of sites are being explored for plant development in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
Osaka, Japan:
In addition, the Company’s process technology has been licensed by Tokyo-based Marubeni Corp. and Tsukishima Kikai Co., LTD and has been incorporated into BioEthanol Japan’s 1.4 million liter-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Osaka, Japan -- the world’s first commercial-scale plant to produce cellulosic ethanol from wood construction waste.
Pilot Plant:
Verenium operates a cellulosic ethanol pilot plant, a real-time research and development facility, in Jennings, Louisiana. Opened in 1999, the facility was capable of CF hemicellulose fermentations. During 2006 the company completed extensive upgrades on the pilot facility, enabling it to conduct combined C5 and C6 fermentations. The Jennings pilot facility is capable of processing approximately two tons of biomass per day into ethanol. It is operated as an R&D facility to improve the company’s process technology and to validate the company’s process on a wide variety of biomass feedstocks.
Demonstration Plant:
Next door to the pilot facility, Verenium has recently achieved mechanical completion of a 1.4 million gallon per year demonstration-scale plant - the first of its kind in the nation. Over the next few months, more than forty separate systems will be electronically energized. Operating teams have begun evaluations, and the project will move to validate the implementation of Verenium’s process and technology. By year-end, Verenium will move to fully optimize the demonstration plant.
Commercial Projects:
Preparations are being made for Verenium’s first commercial-scale facilities, which are expected to produce 30 million gallons of ethanol per year. With the optimization of Verenium’s pilot and demo plants, the commercial plant development program is underway. Currently, a variety of sites are being explored for plant development in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
Osaka, Japan:
In addition, the Company’s process technology has been licensed by Tokyo-based Marubeni Corp. and Tsukishima Kikai Co., LTD and has been incorporated into BioEthanol Japan’s 1.4 million liter-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Osaka, Japan -- the world’s first commercial-scale plant to produce cellulosic ethanol from wood construction waste.