Fiber and Chemical Division, Business Unit BioFuel
BioFuel Equipment - derived from Pulp & Fiberboard applications
for Ligno-Cellulosic BioFuel & BioChemicals Technology
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Company profile
A world market leader in most business areas
HYDRO PULP & PAPER SEPARATION METALS FEED & BIOFUEL
40-45%* 30-35%* 10%* 10%* 5%*
Electromechani- Systems for the Equipment for the Systems for the Systems for the
cal equipment production of all mechanical and production and production of
for hydropower types of pulp and thermal solid/ processing of animal feed
plants (mainly tur- of certain paper liquid separation stainless steel pellets (pet and
bines and genera- grades (tissue, for municipalities and carbon steel fish food) and
tors); pumps; cartonboard); and various strips; industrial biomass pellets
turbo generators boilers industries furnaces (wood, straw)
* Long-term average share of the Group’s total order intake
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ANDRITZ global presence:
Over 16,700 employees - 180 service and manufacturing sites around the globe
Helsinki, FL
GlensFalls, NY
Vienna, AUT
Graz (Headquarters), AUT
Roswell, GA
Foshan, CN
Curitiba, PR
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Complete Solutions for Pulp and Paper
for chemical pulp
for mechanical pulp
for recycled fibers
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ANDRITZ biomass technologies
Ways of converting biomass into heat, electricity and fuels Market
expectations
Biomass Biomass boiler Heat/electric
preparation power
Drying Pelletizing Households Heating
warm water
Integrated gasification Heat/electric
combined cycle power
Gasification Syn-gas Synthetic natural gas Biofuel
Bio-Diesel
Fischer-Tropsch Biofuel
Solid Thermo- Dimethylether Biofuel
biomass chemical
conversion
Pyrolysis Heat/electric
Pyrolysis Oil boiler
oil power
Fermentation of Bio-Ethanol 1st
starch based Biofuel
generation
Bio-chemical Biomass
conversion
Pretreatment fermentation Bio-Ethanol 2nd Biofuel
of cellulosic Biomass generation
Mechanical-chemical Pressing of oil out of seeds Bio-Diesel 1st
and oil rich plant + conversion Biofuel
conversion generation
Process offered by ANDRITZ
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ANDRITZ in 2nd Generation Ethanol and Butanol Production
Typical 2nd Generation Ethanol/Butanol Mill
Andritz areas of interest
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Energy and Biomass
ANDRITZ in 2nd Generation Ethanol Production
Andritz equipment for Ethanol processes
Biomass reactors
Liquid/solid separation
Drying
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Energy and Biomass
ANDRITZ in 2nd Generation Ethanol Production
¾ Non-food raw materials only (Wood chips and residuals, Energy woods, Cereal
Residues, Sugar Production Residue, Forages & grasses)
¾ Focus on Biochemical pathway using chemical pre-treatment and enzymatic or
bacterial generation of sugars for fermentation to ethanol and butanol
¾ ANDRITZ is working with this emerging industry on customized demo scale and
commercial production systems based on established Andritz know-how in
¾ Biomass handling
¾ Reactor design for pre-treatment and enzymatic hydrolysis
¾ Liquid/Solids Separation, including pressing, filtration and evaporation
¾ 12 lab/pilot/demo systems (Springfield, Forintek, IHD Dresden, Glens Falls, QUT
Queensland, Zeachem, Borregaard and others)
9 ¾ 2 commercial system (M&G Chemtex, Italy, undisclosed)
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Feed-Stock Handling
Stoker Silo (moving floor) Stacking & Blending
Portal Cranes
Reclaiming
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Reactor & Gasifier Feed Equipment
Plug Screw Feeders, MSD’s & Rotary Valves
Rotary Valves / Rotary Feeders
This is an Andritz Plug Screw Feeder running at
well over 1500 bdmt/d of wood chips
MSD Impressafiners, a high compression screw device,
feeding various reactors with low and high density feed-stocks
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Plug Screw Feeder / MSD
Physical Principle of Operation
Inlet Housing
Material Handling
Flow of material
Compression
Screw 3D-Design Housing
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Pressurized Steam / Chemicals Mixing Screw
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Andritz Biomass Reactors
Chemical Pulping Digester at Fibria,
Tres Lagoas, Brazil. Start-up April 2009.
Diam. 10.7m by 58m high
Processes 7200 BDt/d of eucalyptus
wood chips (~31 m3/min)
BioFuel Pretreatment Reactors
presently built are > 30m high
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Advanced Steam-Ex Pretreatment - Inclined Drainer
for dissolved pressurized C5 sugar hydrolyzate removal
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Hydrolyzate Evaporation
(to increase C5 Sugar Concentrations / remove acetic acid)
Segregation → good
condensate quality
Spray nozzle liquor distribution
→ no plugging
Constant circulation flows
independent of capacity
Easy access in case
mechanical cleaning is
required (internal platforms) Example – Black Liquor Evaporation
Special design of discharge at Bowater, Calhoun - I Effect
points of transfer piping to
prevent accumulation of
suspended materials and fibers
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Horizontal / Steam-Ex Reactor (Pretreatment)
Vertical Discharge Device
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Horizontal / Steam-Ex Reactor (Ligno-Cellulosic Ethanol Pretreatment)
Hydrolyzer / Reactor Discharge - Details
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Pretreatment Steam-Ex Reactor Discharge
SED HP-Reactor Vertical Discharge Device
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Pressurized Cyclone after SteamEx
(Ligno-Cellulosic Ethanol Pretreatment )
Steam out
SteamEx’ed
Feedstock and
Steam in
Pretreated Mat’l to
Enzymatic Hydrolysis
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View of a commercial scale PreTreatment System
(Advanced SteamEx)
1st Stage Pre-Hydrolysis
2nd Stage SteamEx
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Screw-, Belt-, Filter Presses and Centrifuges
for Washing / Dewatering Applications & Slurries / Residual after Bio-Reactors
Slurry In
Filtrate Out
Residual Out
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Biomass dryers
Pneumatic Dryer Drum Dryer Belt Dryer Fluidized Bed Dryer
with integrated mill and Single or Triple Pass drying using Low Temperature Drying and Granulation
sifter or Waste Heat
9 Biofuel for kiln firing 9 All types of 9 All types of 9 dried distiller’s
biomass and wood- biomass and wood- grains
waste waste 9spent grain from
bio-ethanol
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Biomass Boilers
Andritz BFB Boilers, Green Power up to 100 MWe
Ence Navia, Spain
Steam flow 120 t/h
Start-up in October 2008
Ence Huelva, Spain
Steam flow 195 t/h
Start-up in 2011
Portucel Cacia, Portugal
Steam flow 58 t/h
Start-up December 2009
Portucel Setubal, Portugal
Steam flow 58 t/h
Start-up December 2009
Fortum Pärnu, Estonia
Steam flow 94 t/h
Start-up in December 2010
EPS Pulpaca, Venezuela
Steam flow 50 t/h
Start-up in 2011
Segezha, Russia
Steam flow 238 t/h
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Biomass Gasification (ThermoChemical Route)
Delivery Portfolio for Gasification
Equipment for Biomass Belt and Drum Dryers CFB Gasifiers
Preparation and Handling
• air blown
• for boilers
and kilns
10 – 150 MWth
BFB Gasifiers BFB Gasifiers
- low pressure, air - high pressure, air/oxygen Gasifier Gas Cleanup
Clean gas to • diesel for BFB Gasifiers
• ethanol
• engines • Partial cooling, filtering
• gasoline
• boilers • SNG - for turbines and boilers
• Tar reforming, gas cooling,
• IGCC filtering
10 – 50 MWth - for engines and BTL
<150 MWth
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Pelletizing Equipment – Solid BioFuel
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Patented Advanced Steam-Ex™ Process Concept
for commercial scale systems Andritz is building
180 - 225ºC
130 - 170ºC (~10 – 25
(~2.5 – 8 bar) bar)
30-60 min 1-2 (3) min
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Example of a Demo Pretreatment System
for SteamExplosion – for ligno-cellulosic Ethanol
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Pretreatment Equipment – derived from Pulp Mill Applications
are Proven in large Scale
-> and minimize Scale-Up Challenges
