Production of Fuel Ethanol and Byproducts out of Nootka Lupin

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: JOR3971002

Project closed

Start date 25 March 1997

End date 8 April 1998

Funded under

• Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

VBL Consulting Engineers
Iceland

Objective

Research and development is proposed regarding the production of concentrated ethanol by the use of the Nootka Lupin as raw material and by geothermal steam as the energy source. In the factory the raw material would be pretreated by steam injection and enzyme hydrolysis. Then fermentation of the sugars would take place and the ethanol would be distilled off and retrieved as fuel grade ethanol. Separation of the remaining slurry will result in a solid phase containing the majority of organic materials which would be a suitable fodder for animals. The solution obtained from the separation, would be evaporated to dryness. This would be expected to yield solids rich in potash and phosphate, suitable as fertilizers. The steam required for all the operations involved in this procedure, would be obtained from nearby geothermal fields. In order to clarify numerous technical questions which arise due to the novelty of the proposed process, a laboratory study followed by some pilot scale operations is proposed.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › industrial crops › fodder
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › alcohols
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › proteins › enzymes
• engineering and technology › industrial biotechnology › bioprocessing technologies › fermentation

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Programme(s)

• FP4-NNE-JOULE C - Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 03 - Renewable energies (RE)

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

VBL Consulting Engineers

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 1,Sidumuli ; 0108 Reykjavik ; Iceland
• Total cost: No data