Research facilities

At Inbicon we have made a strategic decision to open our test facility to selected companies who are working to develop new technologies for the biomass-to-ethanol business.

We believe that by allowing access to our pilot plant for other companies, we can help accelerate the global challenge of developing the biomass-to-ethanol technology to a fully commercial scale.

At our R&D site, we have a large scale pilot plant and a well equipped laboratory. The pilot plant consists of two lines for hydrothermal pretreatment: one with a capacity of 100 kg lignocellulosic material per hour, and another with a capacity of 1000 kg lignocellulosic material per hour. The pilot plant, which has been operated and optimized for five years, also features new continuous and energy efficient technology developed for liquefaction and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.

Enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation is conducted in hydrolysis reactors, which enable a process at very high dry matter content (> 25% insoluble DM). We can conduct hydrolysis and fermentation in a scale up to 5.5 tonnes of pretreated lignocelluloses material. We use industrial yeast that only ferments C6 sugars.

For the purpose of testing C5 organisms, we offer access to our laboratory, which includes a 10 kg scale 6 chamber reactor, also suitable for work with GMO organisms. This is the smallest scale that mimics full scale production, at high dry matter content.

Our lab facilities allow relevant HPLC analysis, as well as general chemical and microbiology work.