The transportation from the workshop of the 21 meters high and five meters wide units was an exciting event. Without mishaps all three towers with process equipment were successfully put in place and secured within twelve hours.“The successful mounting of the units was the most important milestone in the construction phase of the project,” says project leader Fredrik Granberg at Chemrec. “The following days we also put the gas flare in place and the construction now reaches as high as 31 meters into the air, resembling a northern version of the Statue of Liberty! A very small gas safety flare will burn there permanently.”The process units have been assembled indoors complete with steel structure, process vessels, piping, valves, instrumentation and cabling to field boxes. Also pipe bridges have been erected in the same way – complete structures with piping, insulation and tracing have been delivered to site to be lifted in place."The next step is to put the remaining components and interconnections of the plant in place, continues Fredrik Granberg. "Late July the plant will be ready for commissioning and start-up." After mechanical completion all pipes will be cleaned, valves, pressure indicators and flow meters etc will be tested and finally the whole system will be run using water. Before the final bio fuel production start-up during September, the reactors will be filled with catalysts that are used to create the bio fuel.Reducing green house gas emissions by as much as 95 percent, the

renewable automotive fuel Bio DME is indeed liberating the world when

it comes to environmental threats. Chemrec’s Bio DME plant is the first

in the world and will have a production capacity of four tons per day.