據(jù)烴加工網(wǎng)站7月23日?qǐng)?bào)道 New Energy Blue計(jì)劃在愛荷華州建設(shè)一個(gè)生物質(zhì)煉油廠，旨在生產(chǎn)可再生的碳負(fù)汽車燃料，取代汽油。

　　首席執(zhí)行官托馬斯·科勒表示：“我們?cè)趷酆扇A州的項(xiàng)目每年可以防止100萬(wàn)噸二氧化碳進(jìn)入大氣層（類似減少陸上20萬(wàn)輛汽車）。預(yù)計(jì)未來(lái)的煉油廠規(guī)模將是第一家煉油廠的兩倍。”

　　該公司正在愛荷華州梅森市附近一個(gè)占地155英畝的地方開發(fā)New Energy Freedom生物質(zhì)煉油廠。27.5萬(wàn)噸農(nóng)作物殘?jiān)ㄓ衩捉斩捄望溄眨⒃诋?dāng)?shù)夭少?gòu)，然后轉(zhuǎn)化為2000萬(wàn)加侖纖維素乙醇和95噸木質(zhì)素，這是一種固體生物燃料和天然粘合劑。溫室氣體減少的一半來(lái)自于替代石油產(chǎn)品，另一半來(lái)自于通過(guò)最佳耕作方法隔離土壤碳。

　　“我們的纖維素燃料可以超過(guò)加州的低碳燃料標(biāo)準(zhǔn)政策和嚴(yán)格的空氣質(zhì)量要求，其他國(guó)家繼續(xù)采取類似政策，推動(dòng)全球?qū)μ钾?fù)交通燃料的需求不斷增長(zhǎng)。”

　　馬斯·科勒表示：“預(yù)計(jì)該煉油廠的木質(zhì)素需求也將強(qiáng)勁。采用清潔工藝生產(chǎn)，可代替油瀝青作為瀝青的粘結(jié)劑，一種更環(huán)保的道路鋪設(shè)和屋頂。”

　　New Energy Freedom是美國(guó)最早的負(fù)碳煉油廠之一，也是丹麥以外首次大規(guī)模使用Inbicon生物轉(zhuǎn)化技術(shù)。New Energy Blue團(tuán)隊(duì)是這項(xiàng)技術(shù)發(fā)展的副產(chǎn)品，該公司于2019年從奧斯特購(gòu)買了煉油廠特許經(jīng)營(yíng)權(quán)和擴(kuò)建權(quán)。Freedom的資本支出約為2億美元，與Inbicon 15年發(fā)展的投資金額大致相同。奧斯特建立并運(yùn)營(yíng)了一個(gè)示范煉油廠五年，向丹麥加油站供應(yīng)2G乙醇。

　　New Energy Blue已經(jīng)完成了圍繞幾種不同原料的工藝設(shè)計(jì)，目前正在完成明年在愛荷華州建設(shè)的現(xiàn)場(chǎng)具體設(shè)計(jì)，該公司計(jì)劃在未來(lái)6年內(nèi)再建設(shè)4個(gè)生物質(zhì)煉油廠。

　　王磊 摘譯自 烴加工

　　原文如下：

　　New Energy Freedom refinery to produce carbon-negative fuel

　　New Energy Blue planned construction in Iowa of a biomass refinery designed to produce renewable carbon-negative automotive fuel, which replaces gasoline.

　　"Our Iowa project can keep one million tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year–like taking 200,000 cars off the road," says Thomas Corle, CEO. "Future refineries are expected to be twice the size of the first."

　　The company is developing New Energy Freedom biomass refinery on a 155-acre site near Mason City, Iowa. 275,000 tons of crop residue (cornstalks and wheat straw) will be locally sourced, then converted into 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol and 95 tons of lignin, a solid biofuel and natural binder. Half the greenhouse-gas reduction comes from replacing petroleum products, the other half from sequestering soil carbons through best farming practices.

　　"Our cellulosic fuel can exceed California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard policy and its rigorous air quality requirements," says Corle. "Other states continue to adopt similar policies, which drive the growing global demand for carbon-negative transportation fuels."

　　Strong demand is also expected for the refinery's lignin. Produced by a clean process, it can replace oil-derived bitumen as the binder in asphalt. "A greener way to pave roads and shingle roofs," Corle says.

　　Besides being one of America's first carbon-negative refineries, New Energy Freedom represents the first large-scale use of Inbicon bioconversion technology outside of Denmark. New Energy Blue's team is a spin-off of the technology's development. The company purchased exclusive rights to license and build-out refineries from ?rsted in 2019. Freedom's CapEx is about $200 million, about the same amount invested in Inbicon's 15-year development. ?rsted built and operated a demonstration refinery for five years, supplying 2G ethanol to Danish petrol stations.

　　New Energy Blue has completed process engineering around several different feedstocks and is now completing a site-specific design for construction next year in Iowa. The company plans to build four more biomass refineries over the next 6 years.