Local palm oil producer Sime Darby together with the Japanese company Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (MES) installed a pilot plant for second generation (2G) bioethanol in Tennamaram, Malaysia. Based on technology licensed from the Danish company Inbicon the plant produces bioethanol from empty fruit bunches that are left over from palm oil production.
The cellulosic mash is distilled and rectified in a unit supplied by Vogelbusch. This skid mounted facility was preassembled and tested in Austria, shipped to Malaysia in 2 containers and finally installed on site within only a few days in 2011.
D|R Pilot Plant in Tennamaram
SIME DARBY | MITSUI ENGINEERING - Tennamaram, Malaysia
