Ineos Develops Waste-to-Ethanol Process (green innovation edition)

  Ineos in the past few weeks unveiled plans to produce bioethanol, which could be used to fuel vehicles, from biodegradable household waste.    The technology is based on a simple three-stage process: In the first step municipal solid waste, or other waste such as forestry or agricultural waste is gasified under a high temperature to generate syngas. The gases are then “bubbled into a pot” containing anaerobic bacteria. In a fermentation process the bacteria consume the syngas and “very selectively” convert it into ethanol...

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