Biorefining

    Biorefining

    A biorefinery is a facility that integrates biomass conversion and fractionation processes to produce fuels, power, goods and chemicals. The biorefinery concept is analogous to today's petroleum refineries, which produce multiple fuels and products from oil. By producing multiple products, a bio-refinery can take advantage of the differences in biomass components and constituents, and maximize the value derived from the biomass feedstock.  

    Neste Jacobs has accumulated vast experience and have a substantial library of  several refining and fractionation projects in the field of Biorefining and Life Sciences. The technology of the refining processes involves the capability to model the mass and energy balances, select the main equipment and to rate the thermal and hydraulic performance of the process.

    A biorefinery concept could be built on three main initial "platforms" to promote different product slates.

    • The sugar platform is based on biochemical conversion processes and focuses on the fermentation of sugars extracted from biomass, including  lignocellulosic material.
    • The SynGas platform is based on thermochemical conversion processes and focuses on the gasification of variable biomass feedstocks.
    • The constituent platform, based on fractionation processes, focuses on the separation of valuable biomass constituents

    Renewable Diesel

    Neste Jacobs has participated in the development of the NExBTL process  for production of renewable diesel together with Neste Oil. Neste Jacobs has done the engineering of the NExBTL plants in Porvoo and was the main contractor for these plants. Furthermore Neste Jacobs made the Process Design Package and the Basic Engineering Package for the NExBTL plants in Singapore and Rotterdam and has prepared the operating manuals for the plants and arranged the operator training.

    NExBTL 1 ja 2

    Bioethanol 

    Neste Jacobs has since decades been involved in ethanol projects both from grain but also from lignocellulosic feedstocks. The extensive knowhow of ethanol processes contain all steps from pretreatment to fermentation, distillation, drying and feed production.

    Biogas 

    Neste Jacobs competences within biogasification  (digestion) of biomasses combined with competence from industrial projects puts Neste Jacobs in a unique position when it comes to execution of larger industrial biogasification projects.