Polish ethanol producer BGW to scale back GHG emissions with Whitefox ICE® BGW.
Sp.z.o.o. continues to spend money on growth and modernisation of its ethanol plant in Poland by putting in the primary large-scale Whitefox ICE® membrane answer in Europe to enhance vitality and water effectivity.
Whitefox Applied sciences is happy to announce that BGW Sp. z o. o. is to put in its Whitefox ICE® membrane dehydration system at BGW’s 108 million litres per 12 months plant in Rąbczyn. The venture entails putting in a Whitefox system designed to provide as much as 400,000 litres per day of anhydrous ethanol. The venture is in building and is because of begin up in the direction of the tip of 2021.
Bartosz Walkowiak, BGW President and CEO, stated in a press release:
BGW is constantly seeking to broaden top quality manufacturing of bioethanol, for industrial and biofuels makes use of to satisfy the rising demand for our merchandise.
“On the identical time, we goal ongoing operational efficiencies to satisfy CO2 targets and cut back prices. Since we first bought the distillery in Rąbczyn in 2002 we’ve got undertaken a number of modernisation initiatives to create a state-of-the-art plant. Whitefox’s membrane answer will assist us take an extra leap in the direction of our total purpose to provide essentially the most vitality environment friendly ethanol in Poland”.
Gillian Harrison, Whitefox CEO stated:
We began to work on this answer with Bartosz and his group over a 12 months in the past and collectively we developed a sophisticated answer to assist BGW set a brand new customary in ethanol manufacturing.
“It’ll even be the primary Whitefox ICE® answer to straight dehydrate ethanol from 50% to 99.9% in the principle manufacturing stream. At Whitefox we’re targeted on utilizing our membrane separation know-how to assist business deal with the challenges of assembly Europe’s NetZero targets.”
Whitefox ICE® is a membrane-based know-how answer that dehydrates water-rich recycle streams to provide high-purity ethanol. Its know-how is already working in 8 US ethanol amenities, eliminating recycle streams from molecular sieves to enhance vitality consumption, carbon emissions and operational prices.
The membrane answer developed for BGW takes the know-how one step additional by being the only real dehydration know-how within the stream, slightly than sitting alongside molecular sieves and thereby offering a step-change enchancment in total plant effectivity.
ABOUT BGW SP. Z. O. O.
BGW Sp. z o. o. was established in 1990, the corporate initially based mostly its actions on buying and selling liquid fuels and engine oils. The Firm has firmly established itself as a pacesetter out there for the manufacturing of animal feed from ethanol co-products from corn based mostly DDGS and corn oil.
Through the years, by fixed investments, it has expanded its exercise to different industries and now the principle path of the corporate’s actions is the manufacturing of ethanol on the Manufacturing Plant in Rąbczyn.
ABOUT WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Established in 2000, Whitefox specialises in know-how improvement and course of integration based mostly on its proprietary membrane options. Whitefox’s Built-in Cartridge Effectivity answer (Whitefox ICE®) is a membrane-based dehydration answer with a small footprint.
Its environment friendly designs assist cut back operation and upkeep prices by simplifying manufacturing, lowering GHG emissions by lowering vitality consumption and enhancing the water steadiness in ethanol and natural chemical manufacturing processes. Whitefox gives options for gas ethanol, different biofuels, and industrial alcohol manufacturing within the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America.
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Polish ethanol producer BGW to scale back GHG emissions with Whitefox ICE® BGW, November 21, 2023
