Last Updated: Friday 9th of July 2010 04:41:00 AM -0600MDTDenmark's Inbicon said late Thursday that its first biomass refinery had begun operating, making the company the world's largest producer of cellulosic ethanol.
The refinery has capacity to produce 1.4 million gallons of the second-generation green fuel annually using wheat straw as a feedstock.
It can also process other types of feedstock including corn stalks and cobs, sugar bagasse, and grasses.
Located in Kalundborg, the new production facility will be linked to Asnaes Power Station, Denmark's largest.
"Waste steam from the power station will run the biomass refinery, increasing the refinery's total energy efficiency to 71%," Inbicon said in a statement.
The new facility will also produce a clean lignin biofuel to replace coal, which will in turn be used to produce green electricity to power the production plant.
"The Inbicon biomass refinery can demonstrate dramatically improved efficiencies when integrated with a coal-fired power station, grain-ethanol plant, or any CHP operation," Inbicon's CEO Niels Henriksen said in a statement.
The company said three US companies had recently announced cellulosic ethanol projects and they all included a scaled-up Inbicon biomass refinery.
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