Shut down demonstration plant Kalundborg

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.

Final report 

final_report.64012-0123.dec_.2015.pdf