INEOS JV awards ultrafiltration supply contract for waste-to-fuel facility in Florida
A joint venture between INEOS Bio and New Planet Energy has awarded Membrane Specialists with a contract to supply a membrane ultrafiltration plant to the venture’s new facility in Vero Beach, Fla., the first in the US to produce advanced biofuels from waste.
The membrane filtration system will assist in the purification of the final ethanol product, the companies said. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The facility is slated to be operational in mid-2012.
“INEOS is breaking new ground in alternative fuel production,” says Lewis Pain, one of the Membrane Specialists principals, “and we are very excited to be selected to help demonstrate the tremendous potential that exists for membrane filtration technology in the bio-energy industry.”
The Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach will convert yard, vegetative and household wastes into 8mn gal/year of cellulosic ethanol and enough renewable electricity to run the plant and power approximately 1400 homes in the local community.
The waste-to-ethanol technology was developed by INEOS Bio, a part of INEOS - the world’s fourth-largest petrochemicals company.
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