Creation of an innovative ethanol production microline enabling the use of agricultural products and the transfer of legal, economic and technological knowledge directed at farm operators

The aim of the project is to adapt the technology to a much smaller scale. To a scale achievable on farms of 1 - 20 ha. There is no description of micro-scale ethanol production using automated micro-lines. The transfer of knowledge related to mashing, fermentation, distillation and rectification assumed in the project will make it possible to obtain high-quality ethyl alcohol from various raw materials, not only starchy but also non-starchy. In addition, there will be a transfer of currently unavailable legal and economic knowledge related to the production of ethyl alcohol by means of microlines.

The aim of the operation is to remove the defined barriers that prevent micro ethanol plants from opening in rural areas, expanding or re-branding farms to produce ethanol from agricultural products and non-commercial agricultural residues.

Project activities

Barriers will be addressed through the creation of an innovative ethanol production micro-line (production of up to 10000 l. per 1 year), using agricultural raw material and non-commercial agricultural residues, for use in the farm segment, together with knowledge transfer on technology, organisational methods, legal aspects of alcohol production.

The main benefits of the project

The benefit for individual farms is the development and improvement of recipes in which no additives are used to improve the processing of agricultural raw materials.

• The improvement of existing solutions can also be considered to be the extension of the knowledge of raw materials envisaged for ethanol production with the use of the microline prototype.
• An improvement can also be considered the creation of teaching materials in paper and electronic versions. These will be presented in the form of multimedia presentations during training and courses for those wishing to broaden the production offer of their farms.

Practice summary

On the commercial market in Poland and Europe there is currently no complete ethyl alcohol production line aimed at individual customers producing small quantities of ethyl alcohol using any agricultural raw material or from commercially unsuitable agricultural residues of selected raw materials (from which, of course, a product can realistically be obtained).

• The innovative microline will produce ethyl alcohol according to the guidelines of Annex I of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and meet the requirements of nomenclature 22.08 and 22.09. In addition, the raw material for production for the microline is also a product included in Annex I of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.