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Construction Completed in November 2021, SGF’s plant is operational running woody biomass feedstock with a nominal production capacity of 30 barrels per day. Steeper’s current Hydrofaction® Standard Modular Plant Design (SMPD) incorporates parallel 200 bpd processing lines, so an example commercial plant, say with 10 lines, would have a nominal 2,000 bpd capacity. The Tofte demo plant is a single-line configuration and from an applied science and engineering complexity perspective, materially approximates a full-scale Steeper Plant, confirming the viability of Steeper’s full commercial-scale plant designs. Steeper clients and project owners will be able to choose and apply any multiple of parallel lines in a facility to achieve production levels far in excess of 2,000 bpd if required.
Construction Completed in October 2021, SGF’s plant is operational running woody biomass feedstock with a nominal production capacity of 30 barrels per day. Steeper’s current Hydrofaction® Standard Modular Plant Design (SMPD) incorporates parallel 200 bpd processing lines, so an example commercial plant, say with 10 lines, would have a nominal 2,000 bpd capacity. The Tofte demo plant is a single-line configuration and from an applied science and engineering complexity perspective, materially approximates a full-scale Steeper Plant, confirming the viability of Steeper’s full commercial-scale plant designs. Steeper clients and project owners will be able to choose and apply any multiple of parallel lines in a facility to achieve production levels far in excess of 2,000 bpd if required.
SGF is a partnership between Statkraft, a Norway-based company leading in hydropower internationally and Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, and Sweden’s Södra, a cooperative of 50,000 forest owners with extensive forestry operations and a leading producer of paper pulp, sawn timber and bioenergy. SGF selected Steeper’s Hydrofaction® against over 40 competing technologies to be the platform for this important industry-leading initiative.
The SGF Demo plant is accessible by Steeper as a sister operation to the Pilot Plant, to prove viability of feedstocks, test process optimizations with the goal of advancing Steeper’s technology portfolio to optimize solutions for future clients.
