Gevo announces production milestones achieved at Luverne isobutanol plant
In Colorado, Gevo provided an update on the operations of its production facility in Luverne, MN for the fourth quarter of 2016.
Key highlights for the quarter included:
- ¥ Produced approximately 190,000 gallons of isobutanol, the highest quarterly production level in Gevo’s history, representing an annualized rate of over 750,000 gallons per year;
- ¥ Demonstrated an isobutanol fermentation production capacity of approximately 1.5 million gallons per year based on the results measured across the last 6 weeks of production in the quarter;
- ¥ Produced a record number of batches in a quarter since switching the Luverne Plant to the Side-by-Side mode of production (“SBS”), achieving Gevo’s targeted back-to-back 5-day turnaround batch times over much of the quarter;
- ¥ Surpassed production cost targets, demonstrating variable costs of production of less than the targeted $3.00-3.50 per gallon; and
Ethanol production continued to operate well in the SBS configuration of the plant, with 2.8 million gallons of ethanol produced in the quarter.
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