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Cellulosic Ethanol - the Way Ahead
US - Construction of a $4 million pilot-scale cellulosic ethanol production facility will be completed later this year.
POET announced at the American Coalition for Ethanol conference that the pilot plant will be adjacent to its corn ethanol pilot facility and a nine million gallon per year (MGPY) ethanol production facility in Scotland, South Dakota.
And POET said it will allow it to build on recent technology advances before starting construction on Project LIBERTY, their commercial cellulosic production facility, next year.
"Our expanded research effort has led to several significant strides in the development of cellulosic ethanol technology at the lab scale in recent months," said Jeff Broin, CEO of POET.
"Construction of this pilot facility will allow our company to take the next step toward the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol."
Mr Broin also said that he is more confident about the future of cellulosic ethanol than ever before.
"In the past few months, our scientists have been able to achieve significant ethanol percentages in fermentation and improve the yield of ethanol from biomass.
"Additionally, in our work with farmers and agricultural equipment manufacturers, we had a very successful harvest of corn cobs last fall and anticipate further advances during an expanded harvest this fall."
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