2G Biofuels: from biomass

going commercial

Simone Ferrero, Copenhagen

20/05/2014

SUMMARY

The biorefinery concept

Proesa® Technology

Biofuel and Biochemicals

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BIOBASED CHEMICALS FROM BIOMASS:

IS IT POSSIBLE?

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End

markets

Fuels and energy

Chemicals

and

polymers

Feedstock Conversion

Platform Feedstock Conversion

Platform

Advanced

carbohydrates

(cellulose and

hemicellulose)

Cellulosic Sugars

and

Lignin

Petrochemical way one raw material

Biorefinery way many raw materials

The biorefinery concept is analogous to today's petroleum refinery, which produce multiple fuels and chemicals from petroleum

The Biorefinery Concept

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The barrel of oil is replaced by the new biomass barrel

CELLULOSE (35 - 50 %)

EMICELLULOSE

(15 – 35 %)

LIGNIN (15 – 20 %)

ASHES (5 – 15 %)

CELLULOSE (35 - 50 %)

EMICELLULOSE

(15 – 35 %)

LIGNIN (15 – 20 %)

ASHES (5 – 15 %)

Biofuels

Biochemicals

Biochemicals (Aromatics)

Silica

Sustainability of the Biorefinery: a question

of energy

Producing multiple products and integrating waste treatment, Biorefineries can maximize the values derived from biomass feedstock and turn biomass processing into real opportunities

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SUMMARY

The biorefinery concept

Proesa® Technology

Biofuel and Biochemicals

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Our R&D Center

Rivalta, Italy Rivalta Scrivia, Piedmont Italy

Biochemtex research facility is equipped with

4600 m2 dedicated to fuels chemistry and

technology from renewable resources and

counts engineers, biotechnologists and

chemists dedicated to R&D activities.

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our R&D Units Rivalta R&D Center

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Activities:

R&D on biofuels and renewable resources

Operational pilot plants for bio-ethanol and target chemicals from lignocellulosic feedstocks

Products applications support

Fully equipped analytical and fermentation

laboratories

Pilot Plants 130 people dedicated to

R&D activities

Technology: A Snapshot

More than USD 200M investment into R&D since 2006

Extensive agronomic studies and supply chain logistics investigation

A continuous 1t/d biomass pilot facility operational since 2009

A contiuous 60 kg/d LIGNIN Pilot plant for MOGHI Technology

A continuous 60 kg/d GREG pilot plant

Intellectual Property – 44 patent family applications filed, 25 are public, several patent GRANTED.

Collaboration with chemical, catalyst and/or Biotech companies

Commitment of Mossi Ghisolfi Group / Biochemtex and its partners to continuous development and improvement

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PROESA™ Technology Step by step

Scouting of Technologies

Generation of key inventions

Proof of UNIT OPERATION in the labs

2006-2008

Pilot plant construction & start up (June 2009)

Pilot Plant operation and data gathering

Test of Plant flexibility using multiple biomasses

2009-2010

Crescentino Plant

Collaboration Agreements with leading synthetic biology companies

License Agreements

Formation of Beta Renewables

2011-2012

Crescentino Plant

Start-up

Q2-2013

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Steam Water

CO2 Water

Ethanol

Steam

Power

Biomass Enzymes

Boiler + Generator

Recovery Hydrolysis + Fermentation

Pre-Treatment and Viscosity Reduction

Feed Handling

Cost-effective sugars from biomass

Aggregation: fully integrated process design

Agronomy best energy crops, based on field experiments

Biomass pre-treatment and viscosity reduction: continuous process

Hydrolysis and fermentation: unique hybrid SSCF process yielding high ethanol concentrations

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Proesa™: We Are Ready

SUMMARY

The biorefinery concept

Proesa® Technology

Biofuel and Biochemicals

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A Platform for Sustainability

PROESA® Technology for cellulosic sugars production

PROESA® Technology

Chemical & Biological

Conversion Platform

BIOFUELS

BIOCHEMICALS

BIOPOLYMERS

LIGNIN CHEMICALS

Ethanol JetFuel Butanol

Fatty Alcohols 1,4 BDO Farnasene

Lactic acid Acrylic acid Succinic acid Adipic acid

Phenols Benzene Xylene Terephtalic Acid

*production of all the reported chemicals have been already proven at lab /pilot scale in collaboration with Beta Renewables partners

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The Concept of Biorefinery

Hydrogen Catalyst

MOGHI Technology

BTX

GREG Technology

Hydrogen

Polyols

PROESA Technology

BIOMASS

C5,6 Sugars

YEAST

Lignin

Fermentation Separation Ethanol

Fermentation

/Separation

MO’

Isobutanol

Fatty Alcohols

1,4 BDO

…

• MG is developing its own technologies for sugars conversion and lignin processing.

• A biorefinery will produce various products: initially ethanol, then diols, later aromatics.

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GREG

Pre-Treatment PROESA

GREG

Ethanol

EG, PG

Raw Biomass C6

C5

Ethylene Glycol (EG) to M&G PET production

1,2-Propylene Glycol (PG) to cosmetic, anti-freezing/de-icing and resin industries

GREG process

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Process concept

Process

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Raw oligomeric C5 sugars

Purified monomeric C5 sugars

Glycols mixture

Hydrogenation/Hydrogenolysis

Purification/hydrolysis

Separation and product recovery

from Proesa

EG PG

GREG

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Observing its three-dimensional structure, it is easy to identify three main molecules such as: p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol, sinapyl alcohol, they could be considered main building blocks from the lignin polymer.

Phenolic structure Guaiacylic structure Siryngilic structure

1 methoxy group 2 methoxy groups

Lignin: chemistry and structure

MOGHI

MOGHI

Phase I Phenol Oil

Phase II Bio-

reformate

BTX (B, X for polymer

production)

Jet Fuel

Marinediesel

…

Phenols for Phenolic

Resins

Guaiacols for food

industry

Cresols

…

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Lignin

Hydrogen Catalyst

Technology scheme

Sugar Platform – example of cooperations

Codexis and Biochemtex together for production of C12-C14 fatty alcohols from

cellulosic biomass.

Proesa® Fermentation Separation

2G-FOH TECHNOLOGY

C5-6 sugars FOH Biomass

Genomatica and Biochemtex

together for production of 2G

bio-BDO from Proesa® sugars

Gevo and Biochemtex

together for production of 2G

isobutanol from Proesa®

sugars

Cobalt, Rhodia and Biochemtex together for

production of 2G buthanol from Proesa® sugars 21

MOGHI GREG

BIOREFINERIES ARE POSSIBLE TODAY! 22

2G Biorefinery

GREG Technology

Hydrogen

Polyols

Hydrogen Catalyst

MOGHI Technology

BTX

Fermentation

/Separation

MO’s

Isobutanol

N-butanol

Fatty Alcohols

1,4 BDO

…

PROESA Technology

BIOMASS

C5,6 Sugars

YEAST

Lignin

Fermentation Separation Ethanol

C5 Sugars

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