Bioethanol Production Plant

Bioethanol Plant, which has a 84 million liter per year capacity, has been designed to make production from sugar beet molasses, directly from beet or sugar. Bioethanol, produced at the plant, is used as a fuel blending product for devices and also used in the printing sector. This investment, made by Konya Seker, to utilize the molasses, which come out as a by-product, and to turn them into a product, which has high economic value, is one of the largest investments in our country in the field of renewable energy in our country. The plant, which has 56 per cent of installed capacity of bioethanol in our country, supplies products to large fuel companies.

Use of bioethanol is mandatory and widespread due to environmentalist approaches in developed countries. Bioethanol, which can be used up to 85 per cent in hybrid vehicles, is supported in the framework of UN Climate Change Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, signed by our country, because it reduces exhaust gas emissions up to 74 per cent according to its proportion of use. In addition to its environment friendly characteristics and making use of the advantages, Kyoto Protocol’s regulations, we are obliged to abide, provide for Carbon trade, what makes biofuels important is that they are alternative and domestic sources of energy.

In this framework, import reducing contribution of the Bioethanol Plant, which has an effect of increasing agricultural production volume and decreasing payments, made for energy raw materials imports, and therefore reducing the foreign budget deficit, is 15.5 million $ in full capacity, for the country’ economy.

The reason for bioethanol use becoming widespread rapidly is because it gains value economically and its use does not have any negative effect for the environment. We can list main reasons for bioethanol production as follows:

- Decreasing environmental impact, caused by fossil fuels,
-CO2 emission values being low,
“1 liter of Bioethanol prevents 2.9 kg of carbondioxide emission during the process from growing of sugar beet to its use as energy. Sugar beet produces three times more oxygen than a pine forest, which covers the same size in area.
- Obtained energy being extremely reliable,
- It will reduce foreign dependency for energy,
- Since it is a domestic product, eliminating price uncertainties of other fuels,
- Other fuels being in the process of depletion,
- Improving agricultural development because it is made of sugar beet,
- Supporting sustainable agriculture by directing surplus agricultural product risk to energy agriculture.

LIQUID CARBONDIOXIDE AND DRY ICE PRODUCTION UNIT

Carbondioxide, which is a by-product in the production process of ethanol during fermentation process and is normally emitted to the atmosphere, is processed at the Purification and Liquidization Facility. Liquid carbondioxide is used for the fields of cooling, food logistics and preservation, water purification, iron-steel, polimeric material processing, fire extinguishing, colloidal sedimentation in sugar factories and green housing. Dry ice, which can be produced in different size pellet and block, is used for the purposes of cooling, food logistics and cleaning.