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Project Description
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Project Description
India Glycols has inaugurated a Second-Generation (2G) ethanol plant at Kashipur, dist. Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand on 22nd April, 2016. This demonstration plant is built and operated by India Glycols at its Kashipur site. It is a novel technology suited to both Indian & global needs and is projected to be capable of converting all types of agricultural residues like bagasse, rice straw, wheat straw, bamboo, cotton stalk, corn stover, wood chips etc. to ethanol in less than 24 hours, with optimum product yields. The Technology Demonstration plant, with a capacity to consume 10 TPD of biomass, is based on the globally-competitive indigenous technology of converting lingo-cellulosic biomass to ethanol. It is a feedstock-independent technology developed by DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai, supported by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). The company has also funded a major project with the DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences to create a 2G-Green PTA based on 2G-sugars derived from lignocellulosic agri-waste, and is likely to set up the 2G-Green-PTA-equivalent plant by 2017. [Info as of: Sept. `16]
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