Solazyme Opens Algae-to-Oil Plant in Illinois
DomesticFuel.com,
July 3, 2012
Solazyme has
announced the commissioning of its first fully integrated biorefinery in
Peoria, Illinois, to produce oil from algae. Solazyme has been running
routine fermentations at commercial scale since 2007 and began running
fermentation operations at the Peoria facility in Q4 2011. With the
successful production of algal oil from the integrated facility this
month, Solazyme has met its start-up goals for the facility on schedule.
The IBR was partially funded with a federal grant that Solazyme received
from the U.S. Department of Energy in December 2009 to demonstrate
integrated commercial-scale production of renewable algal-based fuels.
The demonstration/commercial-scale plant will have a nameplate capacity
of two million liters of oil annually and will provide an important
platform for continued work on feedstock flexibility and scaling of new
tailored oils into the marketplace. Solazyme acquired the facility in
May 2011.
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