BioGasol: Global R&D Headquarters

Highly educated personnel and innovative skills are key elements to why this company chose Denmark

Why Denmark?

“BioGasol is working with new and innovative process technologies for cost effective production of biofuels such as bioethanol, hydrogen and methane. We have high ambitions and to reach our goals we require highly educated scientific personnel and engineers with innovative skills. In Denmark these demands can be fulfilled. The Copenhagen Area has a highly active cluster of international biotech companies and an excellent potential for co-operations in research fields. Besides that the Copenhagen Area has a strategic location and efficient infrastructure. Together, these factors make a dynamic environment for BioGasol.”
Professor Birgitte K. Ahring, CEO, BioGasol ApS

The reasons for choosing Denmark:

• Access to highly educated scientific personnel and engineers with innovative skills
• Dynamic environment with excellent language skills
• Access to an excellent research community and a strong biotechnology cluster – for example in the enzyme area we have Novozymes and Danisco
• An excellent potential for professional networks and strategic co-operation in the biotech field
• The supportiveness of the local education community
• An efficient agriculture sector with excellent experience and logistic skills in collecting biomass
• Qualified and good network of component supply in the engine and plant fields
• Highly developed infrastructure with easy access to domestic and international destinations

Global R&D Headquarters

The overall process outline for BioGasol is to yield the maximum amount of biofuels per unit of raw material and to increase the process benefit by utilization of the residues for further energy conversion and by-product refining. The main product from BioGasols technology is bioethanol - but the focus on production of other biofuels such as methane, hydrogen and other valuable by-products add full value to the overall process benefit. The result is a cost price competitive with gasoline and an environmentally friendly way of producing bioethanol where recirculation and reuse of all streams produced in the process have been fully integrated.

BioGasol ApS was established in January 2006 and is headquartered in Lyngby at the Technical Universityof Denmark. BioGasol develops new technology solutions for cost effective lignocellulose based bioethanol production – also called the 2nd generation bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass materials such as wheat straw and corn stover.