{"id":1844,"date":"2013-10-10T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T11:45:35","slug":"beta-renewables-biorefinery-plant-inaugurated-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/beta-renewables-biorefinery-plant-inaugurated-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta Renewables biorefinery plant inaugurated in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crescentino-Plant-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1880 alignleft\" title=\"Crescentino Plant view\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crescentino-Plant-view-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crescentino-Plant-view-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crescentino-Plant-view-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crescentino-Plant-view-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The world\u2019s first commercial-scale plant for the production of bioethanol from non-food biomass sources was officially inauguratedin Crescentino (Vercelli &#8211; Italy) on 9 October. The Crescentino biorefinery, a 150 million euro capital investment, is owned by Beta Renewables, a joint venture between Biochemtex, a Mossi Ghisolfi Group engineering company, the American fund TPG (Texas Pacific Group), and the Danish company Novozymes, a world leader in bio-innovation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The project was supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The bio-refinery, with a footprint of 15 hectares, will have a positive economic impact in the region, employing directly a staff of approximately one hundred and creating more than 200 indirect jobs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Started up in January 2013, the facility has a production capacity of 75 million litres a year of second generation bioethanol intended for the European market. The plant is entirely self-sufficient in terms of energy consumption (13 MW of electricity produced from lignin) and does not discharge any wastewater, ensuring 100% water recycling. Construction of the plant required 1,500 tons of steel, 1,400 tons of pipes and valves and 18 km of underground pipes. 370 machines were used in the process.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betarenewables.com\/press-release-detail\/2\/crescentinos-biorefinery-grand-opening\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first commercial-scale plant for the production of bioethanol from non-food biomass sources was officially inauguratedin Crescentino (Vercelli &#8211; Italy) on 9 October. The Crescentino biorefinery, a 150 million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}