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Kior restarts cellulosic ethanol shipments

  • Märkte: Biofuels, Oil products
  • 09.07.13

Houston, 9 July (Argus) — Kior, a producer of cellulosic gasoline and diesel fuels, said its facility in Columbus, Mississippi, made its first shipment of cellulosic gasoline at the end of June.

The company produces drop-in fuels, including cellulosic gasoline and diesel, from lignocellulosic biomass.

“Our biomass-to-cellulosic fuel technology platform combines our proprietary catalyst systems with fluid catalytic cracking processes that have been used in crude oil refineries to produce gasoline for over 60 years,” Kior said.

The 28 June shipment was the first the facility had made since March, and it is now making regular shipments of both cellulosic gasoline and diesel.

Kior's plant achieved a scaled-up output capacity of more than 13mn USG/yr, or 850 b/d.

“With the facility operating stably and producing cellulosic gasoline and diesel at commercial scale, we believe we are on track to achieve steady-state operations before the end of the calendar year and to demonstrate improving performance metrics over that timeframe,” Kior chief Fred Cannon said.

The company's renewable blendstocks can also be combined with conventional gasoline and diesel fuels by refiners and oil companies. Customers include Hunt Refining and Catchlight energy, a 50:50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Chevron and Weyerhaeuser, both of whom have signed offtake agreements for products from Kior's Columbus plant. Alternatively, Kior blendstocks can also be sold to distributors of finished products, such as terminal or rack owners, or end users. One such client is global shipper FexEx.

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