Scottish company makes world's first biofuel from whisky waste products

Scottish company makes world's first biofuel from whisky waste products

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/business/business-science-technology/scottish-company-makes-worlds-first-5228025

A Scottish company has become the worlds first to produce viable biofuel from whisky industry waste products.

Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University's Biofuel Research Centre, has spent the last year developing its process as part of a £1 million programme funded by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) from its Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables, in partnership with the Ghent-based BioBase Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP), have now produced the first samples of bio-butanol, a next generation biofuel made from waste products generated from Scotland's £4 billion a year malt whisky industry.

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It will now look to secure funding from the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) £25 million advanced biofuel demonstration competition and, if successful, will move to build its first demonstration facility at the Grangemouth petrochemical plant by 2018.