The construction of the demonstration plant is complete Leuna
Global Bioenergies was founded in 2008 jointly by Marc Delcourt, a biotechnology entrepreneur, and Philippe Marlière, the program's creator The company has developed in several stages.
First, Global Bioenergies implemented successfully a laboratory scale prototype to provide a proof of concept for its technology.
The Company has also laid the foundation for its intellectual property, and he now holds the exclusive rights to a patent portfolio in constant growth.
Second, after its IPO on Alternext, the company has refined its process at laboratory scale to date, it continues to make performance improvements.
Step 3, which began when 23 million funds were raised in mid-2013, was dedicated to the industrialization of a pilot plant with a production capacity of 10 tons of isobutene pa was set up on the agro-industrial site Pomacle-Bazancourt near Reims.
BIOMA Program collaboration agreement with Arkema and CNRS started in October 2013 for three years 5 2 million in funding from the Government of Future Investments program with obtaining Global Bioenergies 4 0000000 The objective is to establish a new method of conversion of sugar into isobutene and methacrylic acid, a key ingredient in the acrylic paint.
The process at the pilot plant, which became fully operational in early 2015, has already been refined for industrial environment have been reduced by a factor of ten laboratory initial batch of isobutene have now been shipped to Arkema in pressurized containers.
A demonstrator on an industrial scale with a production capacity of 100 tons isobutene pa is being built in the Leuna refinery in Germany and is expected to start in 2016.
It was funded by a July 5 million grant from the German Government and a loan of 4 million 4 a consortium of French banks This demonstration is the last step in the industrialization of isobutene process.
The fourth stage of the launch of the technology on the market is just beginning the plan to build the first plant to full scale in France is already beginning to gather Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union, France two sugar manufacturer number, formed a joint 50 venture 50 May 2015.
IBN-One has licensed Global Bioenergies use the isobutene process for the production of up to 50 000 tonnes per year IBN-One is to gradually raise the funds needed for engineering and building installation chemicals and fuels sectors and the authorities of the public sector will also play a role in helping IBN-one to set up.
In Europe and the United States, tax incentives for biofuels allow it to achieve profitability in the first few plants to oil prices above 50 per barrel.
On the other hand, dozens of plants each producing 50 000 to 200 000 tonnes of isobutene, butadiene and propylene would then be extracted economically in plastics and rubbers on the market an oil price of 85 per barrel would be needed for these businesses these plants will drive growth Global Bioenergies because he will receive each milestone payments and royalties facilities be located in rural areas will create about 50 direct jobs each who can not be relocated abroad.
In the longer term, once peak oil has been reached and oil prices have increased more than 150 per barrel, the isobutene process can become indispensable.
Isooctane, produced by condensation of two compounds isobutene is the gold standard and can be blended with gasoline of fossil origin, without any mixing ratio restriction or modification of properties.
The decline in production in fuels has raised the prospect that the existing infrastructure can be maintained once the fossil oil runs out and distributes the need to set up additional storage, transport and distribution infrastructures A new decentralized world greener gradually take shape.
The German car manufacturer Audi has already endorsed this vision.
If realized, the process of isobutene Global Bioenergies can be used in hundreds, if not thousands of plants that will radically transform the global industrial landscape.
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