Cellulosic ethanol from landfill waste demonstrated to be cost effective

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BlueFire Ethanol to build second commercial facility
May 22, 2007 http://bluefireethanol.com/
Cellulosic ethanol company BlueFire Ethanol (PINKSHEETS: BFRE) has started engineering and permitting for a second commercial production facility.
BlueFire has secured a site in Northern Los Angeles County, at a landfill near Lancaster, California for a new modular biorefinery that will target an initial production level of approximately 3 million gallon per year, turning waste into fuel.
The company already has a pilot facility at a landfill in Southern California producing 18.6 million gallons per year from green and wood waste.
BlueFire says it is working to optimize a design incorporating prefabrication that will permit rapid, cost-effective construction of future cellulosic ethanol plants.
The new plant is to produce other higher value fuel components such as bio-butanol, which has been previously produced at Arkenol's pilot plant.
"After numerous requests from both end users and partners alike, BlueFire has designed this facility to also produce value added chemicals such as Ethyl levinate and Ethyl lactate as a diesel fuel additive, which has been shown to reduce particulate emissions by 90%," said CEO Arnold Klann.
The company expects to begin construction later this year after permitting is complete.
BlueFire Ethanol uses its Arkenol Process to convert cellulosic waste materials to ethanol, a viable alternative to gasoline. The company says it is the only cellulose-to-ethanol company worldwide with demonstrated production of ethanol from urban trash (post-sorted municipal solid waste), rice and wheat straws, wood waste and other agricultural residues.
It aims to produce fuel production facilities worldwide.
Learn more about BlueFire and its Arkenol Process in Inside Greentech's webinar What's real and what's not in cellulosic biofuels, co-sponsored by BlueFire and Celunol.

Celunol Cellulosic Ethanol (proven technology)
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/02/diversa_and_cel.html
http://bioconversion.blogspot.com/2007/01/celunol-launches-commercial-scale.html

http://www.insidegreentech.com/node/1013

[Fridays Child]

1. Speaking of this, what ever happened to that "oil from anything" company?

It was trumpeted in a Discover Magazine article several years ago. They were building a plant in Joplin, Missouri, I think.

[philb]

2. Waste-to-oil company selling oil commercially near Joplin, Missouri

Waste-to-oil company selling oil commercially

Carthage
Renewable Environmental Solutions LLC (RES) yesterday announced that its first commercial plant is selling an equivalent of crude oil No. 4, produced from agricultural waste products. The Carthage plant is currently producing 100-200 barrels of oil per day utilizing by-products from an adjacent turkey processing facility.

http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jgelfand1085080198

[philb]

3. Congress should include some incentives for putting in these plants at landfills all over country

and states should be aware of such technologies and encouraging use of such landfill resources all over the country.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. There ARE incentives. But it's cheaper to raid the corn.

--p!