Comments on: Enerkem Heads to Mississippi for Biofuel Plant http://gigaom.com/cleantech/enerkem-heads-to-mississippi-for-biofuel-plant/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Trash to Fuel: Enerkem Lands $51.5M Led by Waste Management http://gigaom.com/cleantech/enerkem-heads-to-mississippi-for-biofuel-plant/#comment-21049 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:49:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=26460#comment-21049 [...] isn’t limiting its sights to Canada. In March it said it was eyeing a 20 million gallon per year, $200 million plant in Pontotoc, Miss., again adjacent to a municipal waste dump. In December it got news of a $50 million Department of [...]

]]> By: Mida http://gigaom.com/cleantech/enerkem-heads-to-mississippi-for-biofuel-plant/#comment-21048 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:22:37 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=26460#comment-21048 What happens to the creosote and other pollutants associated with C&D, Utility Poles and other less clean feedstocks that Enerkem uses. I’ve yet to be satisfied with any answer and I’ve asked many industrialists involved with gassification, pyrolysis, plasma arc, etc

It’s gotta go somewhere…

]]> By: Marie-Helene Labrie http://gigaom.com/cleantech/enerkem-heads-to-mississippi-for-biofuel-plant/#comment-21047 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:34:56 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=26460#comment-21047 Just a quick note to clarify that our 1.5 mgy plant is not a pilot plant – but a commercial plant. This commercial plant entered start-up phase last January with the production of our premium syngas which will then be converted into ethanol. More information on our first commercial plant can be found on this page: http://www.enerkem.com/index.php?module=CMS&id=11&newlang=eng

For your information, our pilot plant is located not far from our first commercial plant and has been in operation since 2003. It has logged more than 3,500 hours of operation.

]]> By: LittleWally http://gigaom.com/cleantech/enerkem-heads-to-mississippi-for-biofuel-plant/#comment-21046 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:28:59 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=26460#comment-21046 Don’t expect jobs anytime soon. Of all the possible routes to cellulosic, this one has the highest hurdles – mostly because of the variability of feedstocks. Bluefire was chosen by DoE 2 yrs ago as the ‘best of show’ in the waste-to-ethanol category, and given $70+ million grant, but they have not come close to even getting final permits for construction, much less actually beginning to build. Either has anyone else. After the ceremonial spade-turning, it is a full 2+ yrs to production, and it will probably take 2 years to optimize for these first generation plants. Do a story on this time-line, talk to real world Chem Engineers, and show your readers how far away this ‘dream’ really is. Enerkem will need to show investors at least 1-2 yrs of economical performance of their 1.5 mgy pilot plant before anyone will begin to put $$ towards any kind of commercial scale facility.

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