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Templar.
The treatment of waste and other organic feedstock often results in a biomass stream that can be used to produce renewable energy by anaerobic digestion. Conventional digestion, however, cannot recover that significant proportion of the energy in biomass which is locked into cellulose and cannot be converted to methane without prior hydrolysis. Enpure has a development programme for enhanced energy production, or ”EEP”, from digestion. The resultant process provides additional feedstock for the digestion process, thereby increasing the energy yield by up to 40%.
There is a wide interest in hydrolysing cellulose to sugars as a precursor to fermentation for the ethanol vehicle fuel market. There is a high level of knowledge on the basic process, both in the public domain, and as proprietary knowledge. The majority of this work has concentrated on maximising the yield of sugars, since the hydrolysis products of sugars can not be fermented to ethanol. If, however, the objective is to produce methane, either as a primary fuel for road vehicles or other purposes, or as a means of generating electricity, the degree of hydrolysis is less critical, since sugars themselves are further hydrolysed as part of the methanogenesis. Templar is the means to optimise this hydrolysis process.
