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Biobased jet fuel from woodresidues – REWOFUEL project
November 2018
Sugar beet and cane
Cereals
Synthetic biology at the heart of new value chains
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Materials, specialty chemicals,Lubricants, cosmetics
Drop-in gasoline, LPG andjet fuel
Isobutene
Breakthrough innovation:
- First artificial metabolic pathway created by way of synthetic biology
Intellectual property:
- Exclusive rights on 32 patent families
- 38 patents already granted
Industrialsugars
Agro-industries Petrochemistry
Breakthrough technology:direct fermentation to a gas
Combination of proven petrochemical modules
PurificationFermentation 21
Illustrations are not representative of current Global Bioenergies’ installations
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Isobutene: a platform molecule with large existing markets
Chemicalsand cosmetics
Existing market $0.6bn
Organic glass
Existing market $0.8bn
Lubricant additives
Existingmarket$1.6bn
Butyl rubber
Existingmarket$2.0bn
Materials2.5 milliontons/yr as of today
Domesticgas
Potential market $15bn
Jet fuel
Existing$0bnPotential$120bn
Gasoline
Existingadditivesmarket$15bnPotential asdrop-in fuel$1000bn
Fuels12 milliontons/yr as
of today
How can it be produced renewably?
► Synthetic biology has enabled Global Bioenergies to create “Microbial factories”
► This breakthrough innovation:
─ Opens up a new domain: the direct production of gaseous hydrocarbons
─ Is protected by 32 patent families
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IsobuteneRenewable resources
Genetically engineered microorganism
A simple and robust industrial process
Breakthrough technology:direct fermentation to a gas
Combination of proven petrochemical modules
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Renewable resources
PurificationFermentation
Isobutene
Illustrations are not representative of current Global Bioenergies’ installations
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Isooctane, reference component for petrol, bio-based
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Isooctane
Advantages:• The reference molecule for petrol: octane number of 100 • High energy density (+64% vs ethanol)• 100% drop-in, no infrastructure adaptation needed• Sugars can be sourced from cellulose: 2nd generation and without
blending wall
• Partnership with Audi (e-benzin)
Isobutene
Biobased jet fuel from isobutene
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C12 + C16, mixture
Advantages:• Isobutene oligomers are highly branched hydrocarbons thus exhibit
excellent cold-flow properties
• REWOFUEL project
Isobutene
Oligomerization
2012 20202009 2014 2017
Joint Venture with
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Approaching commercial maturity using 1st generation resources
Proof of concept and prototype
Samples production
First industrial scale up Final scale up before commercial operations
Creation of the commercial technology package
R&D Phase IIIndustrial pilot
Phase IIIDemo plant Full-scale plantsPhase I
Pre-industrialization
Laboratory pilot
IBN-Two
IBN-Three
IBN-Four
IBN-n
Second Generation: agricultural & forestry wastes
► Numerous trials since 2015 using 2G sugar batches:
- Collaboration with 9 companies specialized in 2G sugars derived from various types ofagricultural wastes
- Lab-scale testings
► First success in scale-up
- 2G sugars provided by Clariant (formerly Süd Chemie, Germany) a leader in the field
- Production of « Second generation Isobutene » on Global Bioenergies’ pilot plant located inPomacle (France)
► Project in Sweden to explore forestry waste valorization into drop-in biofuels, withSveaskog, Preem and Sekab, supported by the Swedish Energy Agency.
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REWOFUEL project
► European consortium to validate a new value chain (from wood residuals to drop-inbiofuels) at Demo scale
► European Union grant: €13.9m
► Partners: Global Bioenergies, Graanul invest, Sekab, Neste Engineering Solutions,Repsol, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, Peab, TechnipFMC, IPSB and JKU
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Isobutene from forestry residues: Rewofuel project
Forestry residues available in Europe
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► Availability of wood harvest residues in Europe (2015): 105 Mt per year. Availability ofresidues from sawn-wood production is estimated to be about 39 Mt per year in Europe àTotal feedstock availability of 144 Mt per year in Europe.
► Out of 160 Mt of gasoline + jet fuel consumed every year in Europe, the REWOFUEL projectholds the potential to produce millions of tons of drop-in fuels (gasoline and jet fuel),
