Biorefinery enables cost effective feedstocks Groene chemie, Rotterdam, 1 November 2011 Johan Sanders Professor Valorisation of Plant Production Chains Wageningen University and Research center

Qualitative example of Biorefinery Rotterdam (700PJ) corn wheat corn wheat cassava chips diesel fuel DDGS soybeans rapeseed jatropha seed soybeans rapeseed jatropha seed Medium protein 1 st residues - DDGS Medium protein 1 st residues - DDGS starch C6 sugars oil glycerol biodiesel press cake (high protein) press cake (high protein) protein lignocellulose (LC) lignocellulose (LC) C6 sugars C5 sugars O-chemicals fermentation products lignin animal feed N-chemicals fuel ethanol lactic acid 49.6 Mt raw materials converted to: - fuels = 12.5 Mt - chemicals = 9.5 Mt - animal feed 2 Mt - syngas 3 Mt - electricity 3800 MW electr. plant oils ethanol ethylene propylene fuel ethanol ethanol glycerol methanol torrefied LC pyrolysis oil syngas MW 3000 MW 800 MW O D D D O R R O O O’ O O: operation D: development R: research

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Different options for optimisation of agricultural waste streams Protein content 05 %15 %35 %50 % Examples Wheat straw Cocoa husks Corn stover Sugarcane leaves Coffee pulp Rape straw Beet leaves Rape mealSoy meal Costs(€/ton) Value (€/ton) as raw material: electricity ethanol ethanol + protein idem + hemicell.+ lignin idem + hemicell.+ minerals

The route to NMP, new vs conventional New route Conventional route Glutamic acidNMP Amino acids contain N and O.  Less steps (= factories) & energy for the same product! step 1step 2

N-ergy Waste  aspartic + arginin Chemicals Food

Multiproduct second generation biorefinary Income per tonne rape meal (€/ton) ProductMassIncome € Protein Amino acids10030 Animal feed Ethanol(200)(20) Fibres10020 PO Lignocellulose20010 Total Costs rape meal = 180 €/tonne

Integrated production of chemicals & power Rape meal Protein + K Agricultural residues NaOH Ca(OH) 2 95 °C 1 day Fibres Amino acids Lignocellulose Amino acids + phosphate Recalc.lignocellulose Ca(lactate) 2 heat Ferm Ca(lactate) 2 Recalcitrant Lignocellulose CaO Heat Cellulase Ferm Ethanol CHP Prec Electricity Waste paper/CaCO 3 BBE parc Cuijk & Renkum

36 kton glutamic acid  23 kton NMP (~2500 € / ton) = 58 M€/y 500 Million liters bioethanol (~ 400 kton) =200M€ 360 kton DDGS (~130 € / ton) = 46M€ Biobased NMP, an example

Our daily food needs a twenty fold higher energy input NL fossil PJ EU fossil PJ Dutch Agriculture 475 Net Import 160 Greenhouses/Food 100 Transportion Food Other Agriculture 60 Household 165 Food Industry kcal/day = 55 PJ 100 Biomass NL 635 PJ EU PJ Fossil NL 575 PJ EU PJ EU PJ

Development of Dutch BbE can be build on Dutch pilars: Agriculture, Chemistry, Ports.

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Glutamic acid – industrial raw material Diaminobutane Acrylonitrile N-Methylpyrrolidone N-Vinylpyrrolidone Glutamic acid NWO-ACTS (ASPECT)

Glutamic acid in byproduct streams

Output (kton/y) Investment (M€) Turnover (M€/y) Investment/ton (€) Turnover/investment (€/€) Neste Oil nd generation ethanol nd generation multi product Small scale can be competitive