NNE5-2001-00685 Project for the Production of 200 Million Litres of Bioethanol in Babilafuente (Salamanca) from Cereals and Lignocellulose - BABILAFUENTE

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Type of Project	Demonstration
Contract No	NNE5-2001-00685
Total Cost
EC Contribution
Start Date	2001
Duration	48 months
Scientific Officer	Kyriakos Maniatis

Abstract

This project relates to the construction of a bioethanol plant in Babilafuente (Spain) that will represent a significant change in the ethanol production system. The new process, using biomass as feedstock, will provide a number of benefits and short-term solutions. These are:

• enhancing the security and the diversity of European agriculture
• reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants
• creating energy from wastes
• creating new jobs in an under-developed region of the EU
• reducing the EU#s trade deficit in animal feed
• contributing to the goals of the 1997 Renewables White Paper, the 2000 Green Paper for energy supply security, and the EC action plan of November 2001 to foster the alternative uses of transport.

The aim of this project is to reduce the costs associated with lignocellulosic bioethanol technology, by creating the first plant of its kind within the EU. It will try to demonstrate the integration of the existing technology and practices with quickly delivered research and new technological developments throughout the entire product chain, from feedstock production to final use.

Consortium

The project brings together partners from the research community (University of Lund, Sweden and Ciemat, Spain), industrial companies (Biocarburantes de Castilla y León S.A., Spain, Ecoagrícola S.A, Spain, Novozymes A/S, Denmark and Repsol-YPF S.A., Spain), with a construction company as a major sub-contractor to create an integrated fuel bioethanol chain.

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• Carmen MILLAN / Abengoa SA SPAIN