Amyris says renewable hydrocarbon technology performing successfully at industrial scale
22 February 2011
Amyris, Inc., a renewable hydrocarbons company, announced that it has completed multiple runs of its fermentation process using its engineered yeast to produce Biofene, Amyris renewable farnesene, in 100,000 and 200,000 liter capacity fermentors. These runs were completed through contract manufacturing operations in North America and Europe. The results of these fermentation runs, including yields, were consistent with previous runs at smaller scale.
These runs significantly de-risk our operations at industrial scale. These experiences have given us valuable insight into how our yeast will perform at commercial scale, and the fact that our yeast performance translated from lab to industrial scale is a strong testament to our technology and the capability of our scientists and engineers.
—Jeff Lievense, senior vice president of process development and manufacturing at Amyris
Amyris expects to commence commercial production of Biofene in the second quarter of 2011 and ramp production through manufacturing arrangements with entities including Biomin and Tate & Lyle. In addition, Amyris and Grupo São Martinho, a leading sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil, have commenced site preparation on their joint venture production facility at Usina São Martinho. All of these facilities will utilize fermentors with capacities ranging between 100,000 and 600,000 liters.
Amyris is an integrated renewable products company focused on providing sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. Amyris uses its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant sugars into a variety of hydrocarbon molecules. Amyris is commercializing these products both as No Compromise renewable ingredients in cosmetics, flavors and fragrances, polymers, lubricants and consumer products, and also as No Compromise renewable diesel and jet fuel.
OK, so 630 - 1260 barrels per batch. But no mention of how long it takes to produce a batch?
Posted by: JN2 | 23 February 2011 at 02:02 AM