In 2014, Dong's management decided to shut down the Inbicon facility in Kalundborg, which affected the planned demonstration campaign for Terranol's semi-continuous fermentation protocol. Instead, the project was carried out in the Inbicon GMO approved pilot plant in Skærbæk. The refill test in pilot scale yielded an excellent result of 93%. Both Inbicon and Terranol were invited to speak at a conference in San Diego to share their joint results. The final report for the project can be found in the provided link.
Dong's management decided in autumn 2014 to shut down the operation of the Inbicon facility in Kalundborg in 2015 and therefore the second planned demonstration campaign could not run in Kalundborg, where Terranol’s developed semi-continuous fermentation protocol with replenishment should have been demonstrated. In this process 75% of the fermentation broth is directly after the first fed batch period transferred to an empty tank, where the fermentation is finished, after which the filling continues from 25% to 100% in the first tank, without adding a new yeast. Instead, this part of the project, following approval by EUDP, was performed in the Inbicon GMO approved pilot plant in Skærbæk in 300L scale with the Terranol yeast strain, cV-110. An excellent yield of 93% was obtained in the refill test in pilot scale.
Both Inbicon and Terranol were invited to speak at the conference “37thSymposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, San Diego, USA, April 27-30, 2015”, which was an excellent opportunity to share the joint results.