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Ethanol (G2.0)

G2.0 ethanol and high-value co-products, with no food vs fuel debate

Feedstocks
Biomass, agricultural waste, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, sweet sorghum bagasse, wood chips, forestry and paper waste
Products
Cellulosic ethanol, with biogenic CO₂ as co-product plus lignin and syrup as biofuel for cogen
Maturity
Commercial
Ethanol (G2.0)

Cellulosic, or second-generation (2G), ethanol turns non-food biomass into low-carbon ethanol, the feedstock that powers Petron’s renewable chemicals and fuels without competing with food crops.

Petron’s solution & differentiators

Licensable, state-of-the-art biomass-to-ethanol technologies, commercially proven, highly integrated, and with the best yields in the current market.

Applicable feedstocks & products

Agricultural crops and crop residues, biomass and forestry residues, dairy waste, and other cellulosic feedstocks (including sugarcane and sorghum bagasse, corn cob and stover, wood, and agricultural wastes like rice and wheat straw, husk, and bran) can all be efficiently used as raw materials in Petron’s 2.0 generation technologies. These processes produce ethanol of all grades for biofuels, green chemicals and polymers, and a wide range of industrial, pharmaceutical, food, and alcoholic-beverage applications. Biogenic CO₂ is generated from fermentation, and Generation 2.0 plants generate lignin and syrup, which are used internally as fuel to supply the heat and power required by the process.

Commercial maturity

Commercially deployable; a cornerstone of the integrated biorefinery offering.

Full technical brief in preparation with the Petron technology team.

How it works

Process block diagram

G2.0 ethanol process: cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wood and energy crops through pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation, and distillation and dehydration to cellulosic ethanol, with biogenic CO2 from fermentation and lignin and syrup for bioenergy as co-products.
Fig. 01 G2.0 ethanol process

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