BioFuels Journal interviewed Craig Stuart-Paul, CEO of Fiberight, Catonsville, MD, May 19, discussing his company's commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Blairstown, IA using municipal solid waste as feedstock.
Highlights From the Podcast
• Commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in operation as of May 18 in Blairstown, IA. Converted a former starch-based ethanol plant.
• Potentially this is a 5-million-gallon-per year commercial-scale plant using municipal solid waste as its feedstock.
• This is located 25 minutes east of Cedar Rapids, within two miles of a landfill.
• The company has experience with both beer beverage alcohol production and recycling municipal solid waste material.
• Paper waste has already been processed once, making it easier to turn into ethanol.
• In 2009, the company rented two ethanol plants in Cedar Rapids, IA to produce cellulosic ethanol.
• Fiberight is estimating the cost per gallon of $1.50 per gallon or as low as $1 per gallon by next year.
• The process utilizes a presort system with a fractionated waste stream into four or five distinct materials such as organic pulp and liquid, plastics and recyclables.
Biography
Prior to founding Fiberight in 2006, Craig Stuart-Paul has been involved in the science, operations and management of both the recycling and brewery businesses for almost two decades.
Stuart-Paul launched the Oxford Brewing Company, Maryland's first micro-brewery.
He segued into the recycling business with the formation of Resource Recovery of Maryland in 1994.
This business focused on processing recycled glass into furnace-ready material for the glass container industry.
Stuart-Paul was an industry pioneer in the use of optical sorting technologies for contaminant removal.
In 1996, he formed Fairfax Recycling, Inc, a company that recycled residential materials collected in central Maryland and Northern Virginia.
He built Fairfax into a large regional recycling center, processing over 150,000 tons of recycled materials annually before the business was sold to a Fortune 50 company in 2004.
Stuart-Paul then formed Atlantic Recycling Technologies, LLC and Fiberight LLC to develop advanced fiber recovery and alternative fuel technologies.
With his specialty expertise, he has also advised design-and-build teams for several large recycling plants in the United States and Europe, that collectively processes over 350,000 tons per year of wastes.
Stuart-Paul holds an HND Business Studies degree from the University of Brighton, Great Britain.
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