Progress with cellulosic ethanol
Apr 13, 2011 | 10:58 AM
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It seems like cellulosic ethanol has been five years away for the last 15 years.
Now, we’re starting to see the establishment of more facilities that will produce ethanol from wheat straw, corn stalks, and other sources of biomass. Novozymes in partnership with Mossi and Ghisolfi Group is building the world’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant in northwestern Italy.
The plant is scheduled to start production in 2012. At 50 million litres per year, the plant will not be very big as compared to many of the facilities that make ethanol from corn and wheat. However, the companies involved say the plant will be 10 times larger than the largest cellulosic demonstration facilities in operations today.
