1. NER300 - BEST Project - IBP SpA
Stefania Pescarolo
Head of Public Funding
Roma, 11/12/2014

2. M&G - Our Group M&G Group: about us
Mossi Ghisolfi is a multinational, family-run business established in 1953
by Vittorio Ghisolfi and Domenico Mossi.
It is one of the world’s leading producers of PET resin
It is Italy’s 2nd largest chemical company.
It is a forward-looking company that is continuing to invest significant funds into bio-fuels and green chemistry research and development as part of its commitment to sustainability
Biochemtex is the M&G global engineering and technology company

3. Medium scale prototype
Development Timeline
TRL5
Medium scale prototype
Crescentino Plant
Start-up
Official opening October 9, 2013
Q1-2013
Crescentino Plant
Collaboration Agreements with leading partners
Pilot plant construction & start up (Jun 2009)
Pilot Plant operation and data gathering
Test of Plant flexibility using multiple biomasses
Scouting of Technologies
Generation of key inventions
Proof of UNIT OPERATION in the labs
TRL 7
Demo
> 130 times scale-up

4. BEST Project - Crescentino
World’s first advanced BIOETHANOL
demonstration industrial facility

5. 40 ktpa Ethanol plant LayoutB O I E L R S
CHILLER
&
COMPRESSOR A B O I E L R S
CHILLER
&
COMPRESSOR A

6. NER300 BEST Project – Bioethanol plant
The Crescentino Plant is the first in the world to be designed and built to produce bioethanol from agricultural by-products or biomass not suitable for food consumption.
This has been made possible thanks to PROESATM technology,
developed in the Biochemtex R&D centers.
The expertise developed in Crescentino will enable similar plants to be built in Europe, USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
The project was supported by European Commission as part of its Seventh Framework Programme for research and development

7. ProesaTM - The Technology
Steam
Enzymes
Ethanol
Hydrolysis & Fermentation
Biomass
Smart Cooking
Viscosity Reduction
Distillation
Lignin for Energy Block
ProesaTM Technology benefits:
Feedstock flexibility
Continuous process No chemical addition
Optimal sugar extraction with low enzyme dosage
Fully integrated process design using continuous equipment to enable large scale plants
Best in class technology with lowest capex and opex backed with performance guarantees

8. Crescentino Fast Facts

9. Crescentino - Development Timeline
Apr 2011
Sept 2011
Nov 2012
Dec 2012
The project started in 2010, the construction began in 2011, inaugurated on October 2013
Today

10. NER300 BEST Project – RES – BIOg
BEST PROJECT – Second generation bioethanol process – demonstration scale of innovative and sustainable biotechnologic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol on a 51 million litres per year plant
Category RES (RENEWABLES) – BIOg (BIOENERGY – Lignocellulose to ethanol)
Date of entry into operation: 01/06/2013 (5y duration)
Legally Binding Instrument signed on April 2014 with the Italian Minister of Environment
Project Sponsor: IBP SpA (main EPC contractor: Biochemtex SpA)
NER300 contribution 28.4 millions Euro (for renewable energy of MWh related to ethanol production = tons in five years

11. BEST Project – RES – BIOg
General comments
NER300 can be a kind of incentive to mobilize investments, especially if timing (call, project selection and approval, …) is efficient
In most cases does not solve the debt financing issue, but can help by improving the overall business plan: it does help new technologies to cover a gap of costs vs. more established technologies
Clear/stable policy framework is today of most importance

12. The concept of Biorefinery
PROESA® Cellulosic Sugar Technology
Pre-Treatment Section
Enzymatic Hydrolysis Section
BIOFUELS
BIOCHEMICALS
LIGNIN CHEMICALS
Ethanol
Bio-Jet
Butanol
Marine Diesel
Green Diesel
Fatty Alcohols
1,4 Butanediol
Farnasene
Acrylic Acid
Succinic Acid
Bio-ethylene
Bio-PE
Bio-EO/EG
Others
Phenols
Xylene
Terephthalic Acid
Aromatic Aldehydes

13. for this reason our future is already in good hands. »
« The future depends only on us,
for this reason our future
is already in good hands. » 13 13 13