- Solutions for sustainable and cost-efficient production
- Extensive experience in different fields of biofuels and biochemicals
Biofuels and biochemicals
Sustainable and profitable solutions for biofuels and biochemicals
We share your commitment towards a greener environment. Our process solutions are geared to making biofuels and biochemicals both sustainable and profitable.
- For bioethanol
- For biodiesel
- For strong acid hydrolisis
- For edible oil
- For lactic and succinic acid
Key features
Key features
Our process system with heat integration for bioethanol rectification and dehydration offers you low life-cycle costs and a short payback time.
Applications
Sulzer has extensive experience in the following application fields
- Mash / beer column (heavy fouling applications) and rectifier for bioethanol distillation process
- Dehydration of bioethanol by pervaporation / vapor permeation, heat integrated with the overall process
- Liquid-liquid extraction for strong acid hydrolysis route
- Biodiesel: fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) drying, methanol recovery, glycerine drying, glycerine purification
- Free fatty acid removal from edible oil
- Distillation, crystallization and film evaporation technologies for biorefining processes, including production and purification of lactic and succinic acid
Contact the Process plants team