Finland’s St1 to open central dehydration plant to serve more than 20 ethanol plants across the country
In Finland, St1 will open a 12 Mgy dehydration plant in Hamina, that will serve to dehydrate ethanol produced at multiple Etanolix waste biomass plants in Lappeenranta and Närpiö. St1 expects to open twenty units in Finland in the next two years that convert waste biomass, including waste from candy factories and bakeries, into 85 percent ethanol, which will now be dehydrated in Hamina.
Finland background
In January, UPM-Kymmene and waste management company Lassila & Tikanoja announced that, in conjunction with the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), they had developed an ethanol and energy generation concept using paper, cardboard, wood and plastic, and would begin testing at VTT’s Rajamaki unit.
Finland’s Neste Oil recently announced a plan to construct the largest biodiesel plant in the world, in Singapore. The 430 Mgy plant would be completed by the end of 2010. The plant would use palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Estimated project cost is $814 million. Singapore is considered ideal for palm oil biodiesel because of its proximity to the feedstock plantations in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand as well as its world-class fuel terminal facilities.
Neste also recently announced that it will launch the “Neste Green Diesel” line of hydrotreated vegetable oils and said that the fuel will be suitable for all diesel vehicles despite a biofuel content of more than 10 percent. The company said that its hydrotreatment proces, where vegetable oils and hydrogen are blended, made it possible to exceed the 5 percent biodiesel blend limit that it currently considered safe for all diesel vehicles by vehicle makers.
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