La tecnologia Proesa™: la bioraffineria di nuova generazione

La tecnologia Proesa™: la
bioraffineria di nuova
generazione
Piero Ottonello
PROESA™ Technical Director
Milano, 12 Ottobre 2015
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Summary
• Brief introduction
• The concept of Biorefinery
• Overview of PROESA™ technology and its
development
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Mossi Ghisolfi group - a family, innovative leader
Mossi Ghisolfi Group was founded in 1953 by Domenico
Mossi and Vittorio Ghisolfi to produce packaging for
detergents and toiletries, mainly from HDPE and PVC
Group snapshot
2013 Revenue: $ 2.9 billion

Mossi Ghisolfi Group has become:
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A world leader in PET production - M&G
Chemicals is among the top 3 PET producers
worldwide and in particular in the Americas.
Owns and operates the largest PET plants in the
world, with own technology
More than 500 patents
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A leader in engineering technologies and EPC
Plants and offices in Italy, Brazil,
Mexico, USA, China and India
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Today is a leader in sustainable chemistry and
biofuels
R&D investments in the past
5 years : $ 200 million
More than 2,200 employees
250 researchers
2 R&D Centers:
●Rivalta Scrivia (Piemonte – Italy)
●Sharon Center (Ohio – USA)
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Two global business divisions:
1- PET: PET, PET raw materials and Engineering:
● M&G Chemicals includes all international activities of the Group and focuses on
the production of PET resins and engineering.
● Chemtex is the engineering division of M&G Chemicals: technological
development, research and engineering services for the construction of plants
in the polyester chain (including PET, polyester fibre and PTA production) and
LNG industries.
● Chemtex activities are also aimed at enabling the production of PET resin 100%
made from renewable sources.
2- Renewable chemicals and Engineering:
● Biochemtex: development and engineering of technologies and biochemical
processes based on non food biomass
● IBP: Crescentino 2nd generation bioethanol plant
● Beta Renewables: PROESA™ licensing
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Beta Renewables:
Beta Renewables is a joint venture, created
in October 2011, between BioChemtex and the
investment firm TPG (Texas Pacific Group)
Novozymes, Denmark-based world-class
biotech company acquired 10% share of Beta
Renewables in October 2012
Our Clients and Partners:
Beta Renewables owns and licenses the
Proesa® technology
1st commercial-scale 2GE biofuels plant
operating in Crescentino (Italy) – 40 ktpy = 13
million gallons per year capacity
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The Biorefinery Concept
The biorefinery concept is analogous to today's petroleum refinery,
which produce multiple fuels and chemicals from petroleum
Feedstock
Conversion
Platform
End
markets
Conversion
Platform
Feedstock
Fuels and energy
Chemicals
and
polymers
Advanced
carbohydrates
(cellulose and
hemicellulose)
Cellulosic Sugars
and
Lignin
Petrochemical way
one raw material
Biorefinery way
many raw materials
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The Biorefinery Concept
ONLY IF WE SUCCEED IN
CONVERTING THE
WHOLE BARREL OF
BIOMASS IN A DEDICATED
BIOREFINERY WE’LL BE
SUCCESFULL AND
COMPETITIVE
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The Biorefinery Concept
Barrel of biomass
Ash 1-10 %
Cellulose 33-51%
Hemicellulose
17- 26%
Lignin 21 -32%
Extractive 1-5%
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The concept of Biorefinery
Yeast or
other MOs
Isobutanol
Fatty Alcohols
1,4 BDO
…
Fermentation
/Separation
YEAST
BIOMASS
PROESA
Technology
C5,6
Sugars
Fermentation
Lignin
Hydrogen Catalyst
GREG
Technology
Ethanol
Separation
Polyols
MOGHI
Technology
Hydrogen
Bioreformate
Catalyst
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PROESA technology is enabling the production of cheap clean sugars that can be
further converted to renewable chemicals.
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The development path towards integrated
biorefineries – Proesa™ steps
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Operative industrial plant
Apr 2011
Sept 2011
Nov 2012
Dec 2012
Project start: 2010
Ground-breaking: 2011
Plant inaugurated: Oct. 2013
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PROESA™ Technology
The Process
Biomass
Enzymes
Feed
Handling
Biomass
Cooking
Steam
Water
Hydrolysis
CO2
Fermentation
Yeast
Water
Recovery
Lignin
Valorization
Ethanol
Steam
Power
PROESA™ Technology benefits:
 Feedstock flexibility
 Innovative proprietary continuous biomass cooking process with no chemicals
addition
 Unique process design for a constant and continuous liquefied sugars stream
production, together with Novozymes enzyme action
 Fully integrated process design using continuous equipment to enable large scale
plants
 Best in class technology with lowest capex and opex backed with process and
performance guarantees
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Why a steam-based technology?
MAIN ADVANTAGES:
 No need of additional feedstock conditioning in terms of grinding or size reduction
 High flexibility toward different feedstocks: possibility to treat worldwide crops in a wide range of
moisture content, size and density
 No chemicals addition reduce process complexity (no special design, no chemical recycling…)
 No special construction material required and no neutralization operation required
 Perfect fitting to agrochemical industry
 Lowest environmental impact
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PROESA™ Technology - Considerations
 Experience in feed handling of various biomasses at industrial scale
 Cooperation with key partners for enzyme and yeast to ensure a continuous
increase of biotech components efficiencies
 Higher flexibility thanks to different technology solutions aimed to valorize
process by-products
 Energy integration and chemical consumption has been deeply studied and
optimized for all the process sections
 Performance LCA indexes for advanced biofuel achievable at scale
PROESA™ TECHNOLOGY PROVED TO BE READY FOR 2ND GENERATION BIOETHANOL
PRODUCTION AT INDUSTRIAL SCALE
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Proesa™ at scale
Sugarcane bagasse
Arundo Donax
Corn stover
Wheat straw
Ethanol
Chemicals &
Plastics
Textiles
Detergents
While ethanol is the first product, PROESA™ provides a platform for making
renewable chemicals and intermediates usable as alternative
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of petrochemical derivatives