tonnes/day of straw from within a 100–120 km radius to produce about 70 million litres/year of ethanol. Phase two of the development would double that capacity. In contrast to Iogen, Lignol, of Burnaby, British Columbia, is currently focused on forestry waste and pine-beetle-killed wood as its feedstock, al- though it has worked with feedstocks like agricultural residues and bioen- ergy crops in laboratory tests. Lignol has a very small pilot plant that tests volumes of up to 20 litres/day and has recently scaled up to a larger pilot plant with a capacity of 100,000 litres/year. This pilot plant completed its first end-to-end production of cellulosic ethanol from wood chips in June 2009 and will continue testing various nonfood feedstocks under a wide range of operating conditions. Lignol uses a proprietary process to solubilize and separate the cellu- lose, hemicellulose, and lignin that does not involve acid hydrolysis or steam or ammonia explosion, says Ross MacLachlan, president and CEO. “This leaves us with the pure cellulose, which allows the enzymes to break it down much more efficiently.” The hemicellulose and high-purity lignin are removed and used for other commercial applications, generating ad- ditional revenue streams. ChaLLeNges Despite the advances of these Canadian industry leaders, there have been other proposed and initiated projects that are discontinued or postponed because of the difficulties involved in breaking into the Enerkem’s gasification to ethanol process is feedstock flexible, but the company currently focuses on waste wood and sorted municipal solid waste. Photo: Enerkem Material Handling for Woody Biomass U Biomass Handling Equipment Complete Engineered Systems Pulverized Coal Boiler Conversions CFB Boiler Feed Systems UNITED STATES D STATES CCANADA AN A SWEDEN SWEDEN Silos Wood Hogs Disc Screens Open Storage Closed Storage Truck Dumpers Chain Conveyors Bucket Elevators Screw Conveyors Screw Reclaimers Pneumatic Conveying See our Biomass video at www.jeffreyrader.com/videoB USA: CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS Jeffrey Rader Corporation 398 Willis Road Woodruff, SC, USA 29388 Phone: 864.476.7523 Fax: 864.476.7510 CANADA: Montreal, Quebec Jeffrey Rader Canada 2350 Place Trans-Canadienne Dorval, Quebec H9P 2X5 Canada Phone: 514.822.2660 Fax: 514.822.2699 CANADA: Vancouver, BC Jeffrey Rader Canada Unit 2, 62 Fawcett Road Coquitlam, BC V3K 6V5 Canada Phone: 604.299.0241 Fax: 604.299.1491 SWEDEN: Stockholm Jeffrey Rader AB Domnarvsgatan 11, 163 53 SPÅNGA Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 56 47 57 47 Fax: +46 8 56 47 57 48 For information on how Jeffrey Rader Corporation can solve your Biomass Handling needs, visit us at www.jeffreyrader.com/bio2 canadianBIOMASS 13
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