Reliability through experience
ALCO BIO FUEL Bioethanol Plant, Belgium
2008
Turn-key construction from greenfield of a bioethanol production plant
Customer
Alco Bio Fuel – Ghent – Belgium
General contractor
De Smet Engineers & Contractors
Scope of works
Turn-key supply of a complete wheat based bioethanol production plant
Industrial operation
2008
Plant capacity
150,000 m³ per year of bioethanol
Processing units
- Wheat milling
- Mash preparation, liquefaction, saccharification
- Mash fermentation
- Alcohol distillation
- Alcohol dehydration
- Stillage separation
- Stillage concentration
- DDGS drying
Utilities
- Water cooling
- Steam production
- Electricity transformation and distribution network
- Compressed air production
- Effluent water treatment plant
- Fire fighting system
Auxiliaries
- Chemicals and enzymes storage
- Ethanol buffer storage
- Ethanol pipeline
- DDGS pelletizing unit
- Laboratory
- Control room
- Administration building
