27 June 2012
Details
Sundrop Fuels, Inc.
has finalized a licensing agreement to use
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company's
(EMRE) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology
to be incorporated into
the first U.S. "green gasoline" production facility.
Location : near Alexandria, Louisiana, USA.
Capacity : up to 50 million gallons of
renewable gasoline annually
Schedule : To break ground late this year on
inaugural commerical plant
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About Green Gasoline's production process
- Sundrop will use a multi-phase process
to convert sustainable forest waste into
clean, affordable bio-based "green gasoline"
for use in today's combustion engines.
- A gasification process will convert
* the forest waste combined with
* hydrogen from clean-buring natural gas
into a synthesis gas, which will then be
converted into methanol.
- The methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) synthesis process
works by feeding the methanol into a
fixed-bed reactor system, turning it into
hydrocarbons and water.
- The end product is
zero-sulfur, ultra-low benzene gasoline
that can be used directly or blended with
petroleum-based gasoline-both compatible with
the existing fuel distribution infrastructure.
- The Sundrop Fuels installation represents
the first commercial production of biofuels using the
MTG process developed in the 1970s and was
successfully commercialized for a large-scale
natural gas to gasoline plant during the 1980s in
New Zealand.
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Plans
- Sundrop Fuels' first facility will provide an
operational platform to begin field integration of
its proprietary RP reactior
radiant particle heat transfer gasification technology.
- The super-efficient, ultra-high temperature process will
drive Sundrop Fuels' future massive-scale biofuels plants,
which produce more than 300 million gallons of
renewable, drop-in biofuels annually.
- Plans are for Sundrop Fuels to achieve
a combined production capacity of
more thane one billion gallons by 2020-
a significant percentage of the cellulosic advanced biofuels
goal set by the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)
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Backing and investors
- Signifcant backing for Sundrop Fuels comes from
Chesapeake Energy Corporation,
* the largest producer of natural gas in
northern Louisiana's Haynesville Shale Field
* and second-largest producer in USA.
- Chesapeake invested US $ 155 million in
Sundrop Fuels in mid-2011
- Sundrop Fuels' investors also include
two of the world's premiere venture capital firms
* Oak Investment Partners
* Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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