Ineos Bio

INEOS Bio commences production of commercial scale cellulosic ethanol. Int. Sugar /., 115, 608. 

For the higher alcohols the gasification routes are not so common. Ethanol being the second largest alcohol produced is mainly produced via fermentation of sugars and for a smaller part via direct hydrolysis of ethylene. The latest development comprises the realization of a pilot synthesis gas to ethanol plant via fermentation by Ineos Bio. Ineos Bio is further optimizing the world s first synthesis gas fermentation plant to ethanol in their facility in Vero Beach, Florida. If it is successful, this technology... 

The first two production routes are based on biological or biocatalytical pathways and do not involve synthesis gas as an intermediate although the Ineos Bio process forms the exception for ceUulosic ethanol production as discussed earlier. The last route, chemically synthesized ethanol, is mainly produced via direct hydrolysis of ethylene into ethanol. Ethylene (C2H4) reacts with water to form ethanol via a catalytic addition reaction. The yield of ethanol production is determined by the equilibrium of the reaction ... 

Laboratory for Cryochemistry of (Bio)PoIymers, A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Scitaices, Vavilov Street 28, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation e-mail Ioz ineos.ac.ru... 

In the long-term research perspective, hydrogen is produced from electrolysis via solar or wind power and this hydrogen reacts with CO2 to either form synthesis gas, methane, or (biologically) converted into ethanol (the Ineos process). In conclusion, it can be said that methanol production via the synthesis gas route will remain the dominant route for the next 10—20 years, but greening this process is being introduced via the use of bio-based feedstocks in the gasification step. 

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