"Drop-in" Biofuels Production Facility in Louisiana, USA, applies HTW Gasification
Sundrop Fuels and Uhde Corporation of America sign FEED and License Agreement
Longmont
/ Pittsburgh / Dortmund. Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels, Inc. has signed a
comprehensive Front End Engineering and License Agreement with Uhde Corporation
of America for design of what will be one of the first renewable gasoline
production facilities in the world. As part of the agreement, Sundrop Fuels has
selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde's High-Temperature Winkler (HTW) process for biomass
gasification as a key element of the plant. The fully integrated production
plant will convert biomass by means of commercially available gasification, gas
purification, methanol synthesis and methanol to gasoline (MTG) processes into
affordable, immediately usable renewable gasoline. Construction of the "drop-in"
biofuels plant located near Alexnadria, Louisiana is scheduled to begin late
this year.
The
contracts were concluded between Sundrop Fuels and Uhde Corporation of America,
which belongs to the ThyssenKrupp group. Uhde Corporation of America is business
partner of ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH, Germany.
The Sundrop Fuels project
will uniquely combine natural gas with wood-waste biomass for the generation of
environment-friendly and sustainable clean transportation fuels. The plant will
have a capacity of approximately 3,500 barrels of ultra-clean, grade gasoline
per day and is planned to begin operation in late 2014. Long lead items will be
ordered within the next few months.
"Our partnership with ThyssenKrupp
Uhde represents a critical milestone toward Sundrop Fuels mission to help meet
the world's renewable fuels needs," said Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Wayne
Simmons. "Working together, our companies will deploy many larger scale, drop-in
biofuel facilities, creating tremendous long-term benefits for both the
environment and the global economy. We look forward to many exciting milestone
ahead."
An international task force consisting of engineering teams from
all involved companies, such as Sundrop Fuels, ThyssenKrupp Uhde, technology
providers, licensors, engineering and construction companies and consulting and
owners engineers are working in full swing on the execution of the Front End
Engineering Design (FEED) work.
ThyssenKrupp Uhde is among the world
leaders in coal and biomass gasification and has over 70 years of experience in
coal gasification. Due to the current energy market situation, Uhde Corporation
of America sees a significant increase in the demand for biomass and natural gas
for alternative energy projects; the Sundrop Fuels plant is one that will
demonstrate the suitability of biomass as a reliable and cost-effective source
for generation of highly valuable transportation fuels.
With its
proprietary solids gasification technologies HTW (fluidised-bed gasification)
and PRENFLO (entrained-flow gasification), ThyssenKrupp Uhde is able to take
almost all available feedstocks, such as hard coal and lignite, high-ash coal,
petcoke, various biomasses or household waste, and convert them into highly
lucrative products. PRENFLO and HTW have already been selected by a number of
customers in the recent past for worldwide projects for the generation of
electricity, hydrogen, gasoline, diesel, chemical products and for direct
reduction in the steel industry.
ThyssenKrupp
Uhde has a workforce of more than 5,600 employees worldwide and is a company
in the Plant Technology business area of the ThyssenKrupp Group. The company's
activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and other
industrial plants in the following fields: fertilisers; electrolysis; gas
technologies; oil, coal and biomass gasification; refining technologies; organic
intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibres; and also coke plant and
high-pressure technologies. We also provide our customers with professional
services and comprehensive solutions in all areas of industrial plant operation.
Details are available at www.uhde.eu
Uhde Corporation of America
is a North American Engineering & Contracting Company and part of
ThyssenKrupp USA Inc. The companies' activities focus on the planning and
realization of industrial plants in the United States andCanada. Uhde
Corporation of America is a business partner of ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH and is
headquartered in Bridgeville (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. The company has further
offices in Houston/Texas, Cleveland/ Ohio and Calgary/ Canada.
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