February 23, 2010 Biorefinery Demonstration Plant Begins Operations. THOMASTON in UPSON County - Diamond Alternative Energy (owner) and American Process Energy Recovery (operator) began operation at the biorefinery demonstration plant, located out Highway 36 in the old Crown building. read more
December 21, 2009 Biorefinery Demonstration Plant Planned for Upson County. ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that Thomaston in Upson County will be home to a new biorefinery demonstration plant, the result of a partnership between Diamond Alternative Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, and American Process, Inc. (API). The opening of the new facility, expected around the first quarter of 2010... read more
December 6, 2009 Alpena Prototype Biorefinery Awarded DOE Grant. American Process, partnered with Valero Energy Corporation, has been awarded an $18M DOE grant for the development of the Alpena Prototype Biorefinery (APB) to be built at the Decorative Panels International mill in Alpena, Michigan. The project has also received a $4M state grant from the Michigan Center of Energy Excellence. The purpose of the APB project is prove in a pilot-scale the conversion of a waste stream to cellulosic ethanol. The APB project, to be completed by the end of 2011, will produce 894K gal/yr of cellulosic ethanol, will result in retaining 200 jobs, and adding 10 permanent jobs.
October 14-16, 2009 2009 TAPPI International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference. Memphis, TN USA Theodora Retsina will chair the 2009 TAPPI International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference.
March 11, 2009 American Process has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Sniace Group in Spain to study the viability of producing second generation ethanol (cellulosic ethanol) in the cellulose pulp mill plant that Sniace owns and operates at Torrelavega, Spain. The final aim of this collaborative agreement is the construction of an industrial plant to produce second generation ethanol.
December 16, 2008 TAPPI Biorefinery Committee Meeting Atlanta, GA Theodora Retsina chaired the Biorefinery Committee Meeting to discuss 2009 plans and technical conference.
December 2-3, 2008 2ND Annual Biorefining for the Pulp and Paper Industry 2008 Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Helsinki, Finland The Helsinki-hosted event will feature a session led by TAPPI Biorefinery Chair Theodora Retsina. The session will cover developments in North America. read more
August 27-29, 2008 2008 International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference Doubletree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center Portland, Oregon
August 27, 2008 1:30 – 3:00 PM EPE/IBBC Bridge Session 1 Theodora Retsina, API, and Tom Amidon, SUNY, are Conference Co-Chairs.
August 28, 2008 8:30 – 10:00 AM Session 5: Biorefining Drivers, Challenges, Opportunities "Overview of Biorefining Technologies and Challenges" Speaker: Vesa Pylkannen
August 28, 2008 3:30 – 5:30 PM Session 9: Biorefining Technology–II "American Value Added Pulping (AVAP) Technology and Systems Update" Speaker: Theodora Retsina
August 29, 2008 Noon – 12:30 PM Session 14: Wrap-up Session Speaker: Theodora Retsina
June, 2008 Professor Hemant Pendse of University of Maine, Dick Arnold of Red Shield Environmental and Theodora Retsina of American Process Inc, in front of the Old Town mill at the occasion of the project kickoff meeting. View picture
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American Process Inc, founded in 1994, has offices in Atlanta (USA), Athens (Greece), and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
American Process Inc has become the premier consulting firm for the application of thermal Pinch technology, the ultimate methodology to identify energy savings. We boast the world’s largest experience list and have completed over 200 studies and identified potential annual savings of US$500 million for our clients. Although best known in the pulp & paper sector, we offer Pinch / energy optimization to various industries.
We provide a full range of engineering services including project implementation. Our references include co-generation plants for which we also provided O&M services. read more
American Process Inc is prominent in the cellulosic biorefinery field. Our proprietary process co-produces chemical feedstock for ethanol or chemicals and cellulose for pulp and paper. We are a member of several consortiums comprised of major academic institutions and corporations in the forest products industry giving us access to leading technologies and testing facilities. read more
To support our mission for reducing energy and operating costs, we have developed a suite of proprietary software products, including closed loop optimization, energy monitoring, process simulation, and benchmarking, to further help our clients realize and maintain these reductions.
We also develop software applications to client’s specifications. read more