Business GuidenessG D I E S M A N U FAC T U R I N G FEROTEC 35390 Grand Fougeray - FRANCE T. +33(0)2 99 08 32 34 F. +33(0)2 99 08 32 19 contact@ferotec.fr www.ferotec.eu For the pelleting of wood, biomass, animal feed, 22 years of know-how in the manufacturing of dies and spare parts at your service We are your competent partner for spare and wear parts around pelleting. Our expertise Sunfire produces first synthetic diesel from solar power In April, German company sunfire, in partnership with Audi, succeeded in producing ecofriendly synthetic diesel from air, water and solar-powered electricity using its demonstration rig for power-to-liquids. The rig was inaugurated by the German Minister of Education and Research, Johanna Wanka in November 2014. The plant recently reached its full operating state and now produces synthetic diesel fuel. An in- dependent laboratory confirmed that the characteristics of the fuel are superior to the properties of fossil fuel. sunfire, one of the top 100 companies in clean technologies worldwide, is supported by several corporate venture capital companies and funds, including Bilfinger Venture Capital, Total Ventures, KfW and Electranova Capital, a venture capital funds financed by Allianz and EDF. The synthetic sunfire diesel does not contain any sulphur or fossil oil 30 Bioenergy International No 80, 4-2015 and service range from feed to the wood pellet industry. ‡ dies and rolls ‡ beaters and sieves and PDQ\RWKHUSDUWV‡ technology consulting Everything from a single source! Made in Germany: precision down to the last detail dĞĐŚŶŽůŽŐŝĞƐĨŽƌƉĞůůĞƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚŝŽŶ WĞůůĞƚŵŝůůƐ tŽŽĚĐŚŝƉƉĞƌƐ ZŽƚĂƌLJĚƌLJĞƌƐ ĞƚĐ͘ ǁǁǁ͘ĚŽnjĂŐƌĂŶ͘ĐŽŵ ĞdžƉŽƌƚΛĚŽnjĂŐƌĂŶ͘ĐŽŵ нϳ;ϴϯϭͿϰϯϮϲϱϬϬ ZƵƐƐŝĂ͕EŝnjŶŝLJEŽǀŐŽƌŽĚ 30 Bioenergy International No 80, 4-2015 and thus is particularly ecofriendly. – The engine runs quieter and fewer pollutants are being created, said sunfire CTO, Christian von Olshausen. The cetane number is very high (roughly 70) and ensures a cleaner and better combustion as a blending component for conventional diesel fuel. The power-to-liquids technology reaches system efficiencies of about 70 per cent. The new fuel is a synthetic diesel distillate based on “Blue Crude” (hydrocarbons). The scalable power-to-liquids demonstration rig is able to produce up to 160 L (42.2 US gallons) of “Blue Crude“ per day. In the next step a bigger plant should follow. –If we get the first sales order, we will be ready to commercialise our technology, von Olshausen said. BI80/4898/JH
Bioenergy no 4 july 2015
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