Company Name
American Process, Inc.

Company Web Site
http://www.americanprocess.com/

Headquarters
Atlanta, GA

Latest News
December 2, 2009
American Process will receive an $18 million grant from the Department of Energy. This project will produce fuel and potassium acetate, a compound with many industrial applications, using processed wood generated by Decorative Panels International, an existing hardboard manufacturing facility in Alpena. The pilot plant will have the capacity to produce up to 890,000 gallons of ethanol and 690,000 gallons of potassium acetate per year starting in 2011.

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Flambeau River Biorefinery, LLC of Wisconsin has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with American Process Inc to provide project management and engineering services for its cellulosic ethanol project at Park Falls, Wisconsin. The new biorefinery will be constructed adjacent to the Flambeau River Papers facility in Park Falls, Wisconsin.

Funding
No funding data.

Technology
American Process Inc is prominent in the cellulosic biorefinery field. Its proprietary process, AVAP (American Value Added Pulping), co-produces pulp and ethanol from wood in an integrated biorefinery application.

AVAP utilizes alcohol sulfite cooking liquor to fractionate softwood chips into three lignocellulosic components. An addition of alcohol speeds the pulping, while preserving the cellulose strength. Volatile cooking chemicals are stripped and reused in the cooking process at a high recovery rate. Lignosulfonates are precipitated and burned to produce process energy. The remaining liquid fraction contains hydrolyzed hemicelluloses. This sugar rich solution is fermented to yield annually up to 22.6 million gallons of bioethanol from a mill produciing 500 tpd of pulp. The value of converted hemicelluloses is 4-5 times greater for society as ethanol than as presently burned. Biomass from the surrounding wood processing plants as well as logging residues can provide energy self-sufficiency for the mill.

Process integration and efficient recovery of chemicals are the cornerstones for the low overall cost. Because ethanol processing occurs concurrently with pulping, the heat and chemical input are split between the two products, without sacrificing the yield on either product. Flexibility to swing yield between the two products provides financial stability over the market conditions. Additional biofuels and chemicals are obtainable from the process if the economics are favorable.