DEINOVE successfully reaches 2G bioethanol pre-industrial scale in a 300-liter fermenter
19 November 2015
DEINOVE, a biotech company developing innovative processes for producing biofuels and bio-based chemicals from non-food biomass with its Deinococcus bacteria, has produced 2G ethanol with what it terms an “exceptional” performance level in a 300-liter fermenter.
The trials were conducted at VTT1, DEINOVE’s long-term partner, which has the necessary infrastructure to implement and evaluate this type of pilot operation. The raw material used is a mixture of glucose (a six-carbon atoms sugar, C6) and xylose (C5), the main components obtained by the hydrolysis of non-food biomass used in the production of 2G biofuels.
Fermentation of these 2G sugars by an optimized DEINOL strain has resulted in the production of ethanol at 7.3% v/v. This performance is consistent with the results obtained by the DEINOVE team in its laboratories in 20-liter fermenters.
Based on these results, we will work with our partners on the next steps: scale-up to a cubic meter scale and industrial pilots. We are confident in our capabilities to provide a technological and economically competitive solution by 2018.
—Emmanuel Petiot, CEO of DEINOVE
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