DRD for bioethanol plant in Zhaodong

Vogelbusch was employed by COFCO Bioenergy Zhaodong to build an energy efficient distillation, rectification and dehydration system with the aim to replace two existing old and energy intensive units.
The order’s scope included the basic engineering of the unit as well as technical assistance during procurement of critical items such as distillation trays, molecular sieve internals and factory acceptance test of software of process control system. In Q4 2018 the commissioning start-up was supervised and the client’s operators were trained on the job.
Design capacity of the plant is 1,100,000 liters per day producing fuel alcohol as per Chinese standard. A high degree of thermal integration including latest developments in connection with selected molecular sieve materials made the unit setting new benchmarks regarding energy efficiency in China.