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Bioenergy

Basics ferm. Production of bioethanol as an energy source

Meixner

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Renewable energy in Austria Energy from

biomass

▪ Wood burning
▪ Wood gasification
O 2 nd generation of biofuels
(Syngas, Fischer-Tropsch, etc.)
▪ Pyrolysis

▪ Biodiesel

▪ Bioethanol
▪ Biogas

▪ (Bio hydrogen)

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Bioenergy - biomass

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FERMENTATIVE EXTRACTION
OF ENERGY SOURCES

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Fermentative bioenergy
Industrial applications

▪ Biogas:
Fats, proteins, carbohydrates + bacteria / archaea (mixed culture)

→ CH 4 + CO 2 + Digestate (+ H 2 S + H 2 + NH 3 + ...)

▪ Bioethanol:
Carbohydrates + yeast (single culture)

→ CO 2 + EtOH + stillage

→ Details will follow in the course of the lecture

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Fermentative bioenergy
Technologies in development I

Org. Acids and alcohol fermentations:

e.g. Clostridial strains for ABE (acetone butanol ethanol) fermentation

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Fermentative bioenergy
Technologies in development II

Microbial Fuel Cell - MFC:

direct electricity production of the microorganisms
from biomass / wastewater
Electrodes

Biohydrogen:
▪ Microalgae (direct biophotolysis):
Water + light → H 2 + O 2
▪ Microalgae / purple bacteria (photo fermentation):
Acetic acid + light → H 2 + CO 2
▪ Bacteria (dark fermentation):
carbohydrates → CO 2 + H 2 + Digestate (+ organic acids)

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BIOETHNAOL PRODUCTION

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Bioethanol production
Austria and worldwide

▪ Bioethanol:
Carbohydrates + yeast (single culture) → CO 2 + Ethanol + stillage

There is currently only one

in Austria
Bioethanol plant:

AGRANA bioethanol
GmbH - Pischelsdorf, Lower Austria

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Bioethanol production
Bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf

▪ Production capacity
O up to 240,000 m³ / a bioethanol
O → 1.4 million t / a slurry production
O → Drying too Wheat (450,000 t / a)
approx. 180,000 t / a DDGS Maize (120,000 t / a)
(Distiller's Dried Grains Beet sugar syrup (40,000 t / a)
with solubles)

CO (160,000
2 t / a)
▪ Substrates
O Wheat, corn,
Thick juice from the
Sugar production

Ethanol (180,000 t / a)
→ 230,000 m³ / a

DDGS feed
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(180,000 t / a)
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Bioethanol production
Bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf

Pischelsdorf bioethanol plant

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Bioethanol production
Bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf

distillation DDGS - feed

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Bioethanol production
process

▪ The Katzen process is used in the

Pischelsdorf plant (American process)

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Bioethanol production
Energy requirements

▪ Focus on thermal energy

O distillation
O Evaporation (stillage)
O Drying (feed)

Share of energy requirements for bioethanol production (Lurgi, 2005)

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Bioethanol production
Feed production - state-of-the-art pulp treatment

Decanter Dryer
Whole stillage Wet cake DDGS
(animal feed)

Thin stillage

Thin stillage backset Exhaust

Evvaap
E. poorraattiioonn
vapor

Syrup

Evaporation condensate

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Disposal options for stillage

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Katharina Meixner
Katharina.meixner@best-research.eu , +43 5 02378-9461

BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology GmbH, IFA-Tulln, Konrad

Lorenz Straße 20, 3430 Tulln

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