Fiberight, Catonsville, Md., has ordered from Andritz, Graz, Austria, equipment, engineering, and field services for its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Blairstown, Iowa. Startup is planned for the first quarter of 2015.

 

The Andritz technology will be used for continuous pre-treatment of municipal solid waste feedstock that will then be converted into cellulosic ethanol using Fiberight’s existing fermentation and distillation processes. Andritz’s technology uses a unique steam heating concept to continuously preheat and cook the feedstock at elevated temperatures, producing an average of 200 bone dry metric tpd of pre-treated material.

 

 

 

Fiberight focuses on transforming post-recycled municipal solid waste and other organic feedstocks into next-generation renewable biofuels, with cellulosic ethanol as the core product.