Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd (SIMPL) announced that will use the site of its new Technology Centre in Bangalore, India, to install a 5 tonne/day IH2 Technology demonstration plant. The biofuel plant will be entirely built by SIMPL, which will also own the demonstration scale IH2 plant.
IH2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermo-chemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks.
Shell’s Catalyst business, CRI Catalyst Company, will further develop the IH2 technology which was originally developed by US-based Gas Technology Institute in 2009. While the Basic Engineering Package for the plant will be provided by Zeton, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, CRI will supply the proprietary catalysts for the unit.
The facility in Bangalore will be configured as to allow a variety of feedstock, since the IH2 technology converts a wide range of residual biomass, such as residual woody biomass and select agricultural and municipal residues. Still, regardless of the feedstock, the IH2 hydrocarbons produced span the gasoline, jet and diesel range.
The hydrocarbons produced by this technology, using lignocellulosic biomass feed, meet all the necessary criteria of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) for road transport fuel, , positioned for the US market as an E10 gasoline fully renewable product and as a 100% fully renewable on-road diesel.
Also, Testing of the neat kerosene (R100) cut indicates that the material meet specifications for global jet fuel specifications for Jet A-1/JP8 for those properties tested to date. Ongoing research indicates a high probability to achieve European Union (EN) specification fuels.
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