Biofuels & Ethanol Industry Solutions

Optimize product quality & increase productivity

The growing demand for biofuels and ethanol is a worldwide trend. Increasing productivity and ensuring a quality product are some of the biggest challenges for ethanol plants to meet domestic and export markets. For this reason, the constant maintenance of equipment and the search for highly effective solutions are critical to increasing competitive advantages.

SUEZ is uniquely positioned to deliver the solutions need by the biofuels and ethanol industry to create more sustainable water usage, design more efficiency ways to produce water and install water solutions to improve efficiency, water recycling and reuse.

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Overview
Applications
Products & Services
Case Studies

Overview

Biofuels and ethanol – a growing industry

The growing demand for renewable fuels has stimulated investments in various regions, including Brazil, Columbia, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. With expansion projects already underway in the biofuels and ethanol sector, investments in new power plants should continue in the coming years and are expected to increase the trade of ethanol as an alternative source of fossil fuels.

With this favorable scenario, the industry must be prepared to meet the expected growth. Contributing to the success of the biofuels and ethanol industry, SUEZ develops and offers products and services-present from the beginning to the end of the process-that are highly efficient and of excellent quality.

SUEZ is uniquely positioned to deliver the solutions needed by the biofuels and ethanol industry to create more sustainable water usage, design more efficient ways to produce water and install water solutions to improve efficiency, water recycling and reuse.

Applications

Boiler Water Treatment Chemicals & Services

Prolong the life of your physical assets and maximize process productivity by optimizing…

Cooling Tower Water Treatment

Corrosion, deposition, fouling, and biological growth can derail your operations. SUEZ’s…

Industrial & Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Whether municipal or industrial, SUEZ understands your challenges and recognizes the…

Monitoring Systems

Physical asset and TOC monitoring to optimize chemical consumption and meet water quality…

Products & Services

Cooling Water Treatment Chemicals

Extend asset life with SUEZ's broad portfolio of cooling water treatments

Boiler Water Chemicals

Driving efficiency, safety and reliability in your steam-generating system

Membrane Chemicals & Pretreatment Products

Protect your RO membranes from scale, bacterial growth and fouling

Wastewater Treatment Chemicals

Creating sustainable solutions for wastewater treatment

Asset Performance Management

Case Studies

Water reuse helps White Energy save over $200,000 per year

White Energy wanted to find ways to reuse water and reduce the plant’s use of increasingly limited municipal water supplies.

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SUEZ technology enables the world’s first zero liquid discharge (ZLD) corn mill

A corn mill in southern India was facing strict government regulations regarding effluent discharge. They needed to remove contaminants and maximize wastewater recycling.

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Ethanol facility increases run-length and production capacity with SUEZ FoodPro*

A large ethanol producer in the mid-west recognized that the ethanol evaporation process from fermented beer mash had a significant fouling potential that could severely impact plant operations.

Ethanol plant’s cooling towers treated with E.C.O.Film* improves corrosion protection and meets stricter phosphorus regulation

The increased concentration of phosphorus in bodies of water leads to unnatural algae growth, upsetting indigenous f

Ethanol Producer Magazine article: Enhanced for ethanol

Learn how a one-step clean-in-place solution designed for ethanol plants decreases chemical usage while cleaning both inorganic and organic compounds.

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