RE: Lignol DD..Other infoCellulosic ethanol is a clean-burning, fully biodegradable, renewable fuel can be created from a variety of feedstocks that would otherwise be disposed of as waste materials.
The key ingredient is cellulose, a fibrous material that makes up most of the plant matter in biomass such as corn cobs, corn residue, wood chips, trees, municipal solid waste and pulp and paper industry wastes.
Enhanced Environmental Benefits
As well as reducing harmful emissions from vehicles, cellulosic ethanol enhances the many environmental benefits of traditional ethanol by:
helping to solve environmental problems related to waste management by using residual materials that would have decomposed to produce methane, a greenhouse gas
producing as much as eight times more energy than it consumes
requiring minimal amounts of water. Depending on the feedstock, the production process can even become a net producer of water
encouraging the cultivation of bioenergy crops that provide a better environment for wildlife. Their extensive root systems increase nutrient capture, improve soil quality, sequester carbon, and reduce erosion .
produces large quantities of lignin which can be further processed into high purity lignin to replace petrochemicals in many industrial products
The key driver of ethanol yields from cellulsic sources is the pre-treatment process.
Lignol's was acquired from GE and is a modification of that used successfully by Repap.
As far as I can tell, it is best-in-class