Selected showcase projects in Europe

Lantmännen Agroetanol assigned VOGELBUSCH with the basic engineering of the distillation and dehydration for their new bioethanol plant in Norrköping. 
Agroetanol opted for Vogelbusch’s MULTIPRESSURE© distillation/rectification and dehydration system because it is the most energy efficient process on the market. It minimises the use of fossil fuel and therefore reduces CO2 emissions.
The facility will processes wheat for the most part, and with an output of 470,000 litres of bioethanol per day.

Euro Ethyl’s molecular sieve system was supplied preassembled by Vogelbusch USA and a performance test was successfully completed in November 2006. The plant has a rated capacity of 120,000 litres of dehydrated alcohol per day. The integration of the molecular sieve with the existing plant required additional distillation equipment to increase capacity, and Vogelbusch USA assisted Euro Ethyl with the procurement and installation of used equipment from US sources.

The 800,000 litre/day plant is the largest bioethanol facility in Europe. It is designed for multiple grain sources together with by-products of beet sugar processing, and is highly advanced in terms of energy saving and environmental protection. Vogelbusch contributed process design for the raw material processing, continuous fermentation, distillation and molecular sieve dehydration stages, as well as DDGS drying.

"The plant, which was commissioned in the spring of 2005, is outstanding thanks to its efficient continuous fermentation method coupled with an integrated, optimized energy concept."
Press Release of Südzucker AG, 1.09.2006

The plant in Leopoldov produces extra neutral alcohol for beverage alcohol. In the destillation and rectification unit provided by Vogelbusch 30,000 liters of alcohol per day are distilled from alcoholic mashes from molasses and grain.