This is especially for Ian Bungy and those other that are concerned with the environmental effects of Ethanol Production as well as its effect on food prices due to increased demand for corn, sugarcane etc. Yes and also for all of you who want to know a little about what is behind all this “Gasohol discussion”
St1 Biofuels Oy, a joint venture of St1 and VTT in Finland. ST-1 is a petrol distributing company from Finland with petrol stations all over Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Poland all stations being self service stations, no employees at the stations. It is a very young company, established in 1999 but is already the biggest petrol distributor in Fnland after buying all EXXON outlets in Finland two years ago as well as the Norwegian government owned Staoil/Hydro outlets in Sweden and Norway . It has no refinery but buy all the stuff on the spot market and only stock the gasoline and distribute it through their own unmanned petrol stations. The company is regarded as a “maverick’ who killed the gasoline oligopoly in Finland. VTT is the Technical Research Center of Finland, a government agency.
The company has started to manufacture Ethanol to be used blended with gasoline sold as E95 and E85, the latter only for special flex fuel cars. The names are a little miss leading. But the point is not that.The point is that the Ethanol is not made from anything that can be used for food but from something that is left when you make food. The food processing industry, maybe potatoes for french fries, beer or chicken processing factories they all produce waste, a waste that is expensive to get rid of, and if the waste can be dumped at land filling sites, the waste will create more carbon dioxide gases, also called green house gases, causing the warming of our globe. Mostly the waste is toxic and thus cannot be dumped at land filling sites but must be destructed and processed in different ways at high cost.
What St1 Bio fuels now offers is a way for food processing factories and a likes to get rid of their waste at a lower cost by providing a small scale Ethanol factory to the premises were the waste is. The ethanol manufacturing unit is a small modul unit, where the moduls are a mass produced standard parts and by adding more moduls the capacity can be increased to suit any sized food processing company. This method makes ethanol production profitable even on a small scale.
These small ethanol factories are unmanned and controlled by a remote control room. No employees are needed at the ethanol factory.
The chemical process is based on a fermentation process associated with an evaporation process producing an ethanol/water concentration of 50%-85% at a plant installed in the place of origin of the waste. By-products include water, solid waste and a liquid which can be used in soil conditioning, for example. Depending on the raw materials used, other by-products are suitable for use as animal feed, fertilizer, or feedstock for anaerobic digestion.
The ethanol mixture is then transported to St1’s dehydration units, where it will be refined to a purity of 99.8%, mixed into the fuel and distributed to the petrol stations. The transports from the ethanol units to the dehydration stations are handled by the empty gasoline tank trucks going back to pick up new loads of gasoline, thus not causing any new environmental load.
The amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere during the production process has been minimized by generating the energy needed for running the process using heat from the “mother factory’s" industrial installations or renewable sources of .In logistics they take, as already told , advantage of the empty tankers returning after having refilled the petrol stations.
St1's ethanol plants in the future will use also cellulose based wastes e.g. packaging waste straw in ethanol production and probably in the future waste from our huge paper pulp industry.
St1 Biofuels now have 3 ethanol plants and 3 more will be ready at the end of the year. By the end of next year 50% of all ethanol needed for fuels in Finland will be produced by St1 and from waste from the food processing industry. That is 50% of all ethanol produced in Finland. If I remember right the first factory runs on Bakery Waste, the next one on potato waste and the third on beer production waste.
The Kyoto Protocol and the European Union’s directives on fuels and waste management forced Finland to take radical measurements in order to be able to reach the goals.
St1’s ethanol production will represent around two percent of the total volume of petrol sold in Finland. Alone, it is enough to meet over half of the goals that the Ministry of Trade and Industry are thinking of setting in relation to the use of bio fuel components in Finland
Finland is supposed to use bio fuel 1% in 2008, 2% in 2009 and 3% in 2010. of all fuels. St1 will meet 50% of that target next year, by making Ethanol from garbage…
The Kyoto Protocol imposes binding emission reduction requirements on industrialized countries for the years 2008-2012. It compels the countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 5.2% from the level of 1990 between 2008 and 2012.
Depending on nation-specific circumstances, countries can strive to meet the reduction requirements by imposing corresponding regulations on the energy and traffic sectors and waste management, for example.
The Kyoto protocol took effect in 2005 and it was ratified by all EU-states in 2002. USA has not ratified it. As far as I know Thailand have.
Because of the Kyoto protocol The European Union set up rules that the minimum content of bio fuels and other renewable fuels in the petrol and diesel used in vehicles must be 5.75% by the end of 2010. Probably Finland has been able to meet the KYOTO agreement with less bio fuels because they have so much environmentally friendly water power and Nuclear Power.
Anyhow this is not only a question of using more green gasoline, it is also a question of waste management. We cannot any more just send our rubbish to the land filling sites. Our environment cannot take it any more.
The EU have made up regulations in 1999 that are gradually coming into effect.
In Finland this means that only 75% of the amount of biodegradable waste recorded in 1994 could be taken to landfill sites in 2006, and in 2016 the figure is only 35% of the level of 1994. In 2016, no more than 25% of biodegradable communal waste generated in that year can be taken to landfill sites.
The annual costs of managing biodegradable communal waste in Finland alone are expected to increase from about 280 million EUR in 2008 to about EUR 430-480 million The additional costs will be offset with waste management fees imposed on waste producers, and these are expected to increase by over 70%. This makes ethanol production from waste even more profitable
The European Union directive on promoting the use of bio fuels and other renewable forms of energy was released in May 2003. The directive aims at increasing energy-related self-sufficiency, reducing dependency on oil and the volume of carbon dioxide emissions, preserving agriculture and jobs. According to the directive, the minimum content of bio fuels and other renewable fuels in the petrol and diesel used in vehicles must be 5.75% by the end of 2010.
On the longer run the goals are even more ambitious.The Commission’s Communication emphasizes the goal presented in the Green Paper entitled “Towards a European strategy for the security of energy supply”, according to which 20% of road traffic fuels should be replaced by alternative fuels by 2020.
Of course this happens in Finland with a population of 5 million. But it can be transformed into any country, you eat and drink in comparision as much, it is just a matter of increasing the scale. ST1 is already selling the concept to other countries.
To visualize the concept I post some promotion pictures I found
HIKO
St1 Biofuels Oy, a joint venture of St1 and VTT in Finland. ST-1 is a petrol distributing company from Finland with petrol stations all over Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Poland all stations being self service stations, no employees at the stations. It is a very young company, established in 1999 but is already the biggest petrol distributor in Fnland after buying all EXXON outlets in Finland two years ago as well as the Norwegian government owned Staoil/Hydro outlets in Sweden and Norway . It has no refinery but buy all the stuff on the spot market and only stock the gasoline and distribute it through their own unmanned petrol stations. The company is regarded as a “maverick’ who killed the gasoline oligopoly in Finland. VTT is the Technical Research Center of Finland, a government agency.
The company has started to manufacture Ethanol to be used blended with gasoline sold as E95 and E85, the latter only for special flex fuel cars. The names are a little miss leading. But the point is not that.The point is that the Ethanol is not made from anything that can be used for food but from something that is left when you make food. The food processing industry, maybe potatoes for french fries, beer or chicken processing factories they all produce waste, a waste that is expensive to get rid of, and if the waste can be dumped at land filling sites, the waste will create more carbon dioxide gases, also called green house gases, causing the warming of our globe. Mostly the waste is toxic and thus cannot be dumped at land filling sites but must be destructed and processed in different ways at high cost.
What St1 Bio fuels now offers is a way for food processing factories and a likes to get rid of their waste at a lower cost by providing a small scale Ethanol factory to the premises were the waste is. The ethanol manufacturing unit is a small modul unit, where the moduls are a mass produced standard parts and by adding more moduls the capacity can be increased to suit any sized food processing company. This method makes ethanol production profitable even on a small scale.
These small ethanol factories are unmanned and controlled by a remote control room. No employees are needed at the ethanol factory.
The chemical process is based on a fermentation process associated with an evaporation process producing an ethanol/water concentration of 50%-85% at a plant installed in the place of origin of the waste. By-products include water, solid waste and a liquid which can be used in soil conditioning, for example. Depending on the raw materials used, other by-products are suitable for use as animal feed, fertilizer, or feedstock for anaerobic digestion.
The ethanol mixture is then transported to St1’s dehydration units, where it will be refined to a purity of 99.8%, mixed into the fuel and distributed to the petrol stations. The transports from the ethanol units to the dehydration stations are handled by the empty gasoline tank trucks going back to pick up new loads of gasoline, thus not causing any new environmental load.
The amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere during the production process has been minimized by generating the energy needed for running the process using heat from the “mother factory’s" industrial installations or renewable sources of .In logistics they take, as already told , advantage of the empty tankers returning after having refilled the petrol stations.
St1's ethanol plants in the future will use also cellulose based wastes e.g. packaging waste straw in ethanol production and probably in the future waste from our huge paper pulp industry.
St1 Biofuels now have 3 ethanol plants and 3 more will be ready at the end of the year. By the end of next year 50% of all ethanol needed for fuels in Finland will be produced by St1 and from waste from the food processing industry. That is 50% of all ethanol produced in Finland. If I remember right the first factory runs on Bakery Waste, the next one on potato waste and the third on beer production waste.
The Kyoto Protocol and the European Union’s directives on fuels and waste management forced Finland to take radical measurements in order to be able to reach the goals.
St1’s ethanol production will represent around two percent of the total volume of petrol sold in Finland. Alone, it is enough to meet over half of the goals that the Ministry of Trade and Industry are thinking of setting in relation to the use of bio fuel components in Finland
Finland is supposed to use bio fuel 1% in 2008, 2% in 2009 and 3% in 2010. of all fuels. St1 will meet 50% of that target next year, by making Ethanol from garbage…
The Kyoto Protocol imposes binding emission reduction requirements on industrialized countries for the years 2008-2012. It compels the countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 5.2% from the level of 1990 between 2008 and 2012.
Depending on nation-specific circumstances, countries can strive to meet the reduction requirements by imposing corresponding regulations on the energy and traffic sectors and waste management, for example.
The Kyoto protocol took effect in 2005 and it was ratified by all EU-states in 2002. USA has not ratified it. As far as I know Thailand have.
Because of the Kyoto protocol The European Union set up rules that the minimum content of bio fuels and other renewable fuels in the petrol and diesel used in vehicles must be 5.75% by the end of 2010. Probably Finland has been able to meet the KYOTO agreement with less bio fuels because they have so much environmentally friendly water power and Nuclear Power.
Anyhow this is not only a question of using more green gasoline, it is also a question of waste management. We cannot any more just send our rubbish to the land filling sites. Our environment cannot take it any more.
The EU have made up regulations in 1999 that are gradually coming into effect.
In Finland this means that only 75% of the amount of biodegradable waste recorded in 1994 could be taken to landfill sites in 2006, and in 2016 the figure is only 35% of the level of 1994. In 2016, no more than 25% of biodegradable communal waste generated in that year can be taken to landfill sites.
The annual costs of managing biodegradable communal waste in Finland alone are expected to increase from about 280 million EUR in 2008 to about EUR 430-480 million The additional costs will be offset with waste management fees imposed on waste producers, and these are expected to increase by over 70%. This makes ethanol production from waste even more profitable
The European Union directive on promoting the use of bio fuels and other renewable forms of energy was released in May 2003. The directive aims at increasing energy-related self-sufficiency, reducing dependency on oil and the volume of carbon dioxide emissions, preserving agriculture and jobs. According to the directive, the minimum content of bio fuels and other renewable fuels in the petrol and diesel used in vehicles must be 5.75% by the end of 2010.
On the longer run the goals are even more ambitious.The Commission’s Communication emphasizes the goal presented in the Green Paper entitled “Towards a European strategy for the security of energy supply”, according to which 20% of road traffic fuels should be replaced by alternative fuels by 2020.
Of course this happens in Finland with a population of 5 million. But it can be transformed into any country, you eat and drink in comparision as much, it is just a matter of increasing the scale. ST1 is already selling the concept to other countries.
To visualize the concept I post some promotion pictures I found
HIKO
