Iro’s planned Leandros Biofuels Project in Gladstone will initially produce up to 1 billion litres of transport diesel synthesised from up to 2 million tonnes of sugar cane tops and leaves, and hydrogen extracted from gas.
The Leandros production facility will be sited within an established industrial precinct in Gladstone to access skilled labour and a steady gas supply via the Queensland Gas Pipeline.
Iro’s friendlier diesel will be manufactured for supply to Australian aviation and mining industries using the proven Fischer-Tropsch process technology. Our fuels will be competitively priced against conventional, high carbon fuels which have more than double the greenhouse gas emissions.
Iro plans to initially source and pre-treat feedstock each year in sugar communities such as Mackay and Bundaberg before trucking it to Gladstone. Canegrowers have the potential to secure a new and reliable source of income for formerly worthless waste, traditionally discarded and ploughed back into the fields.
The Fischer Tropsch process
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The Fischer-Tropsch Process has been known since the 1920s in Germany and is an advanced technology used to convert biomass (green waste) to liquid fuel. Other than sugar cane fibre, any type of biomass can be used as a feedstock, including woody and grassy materials and agricultural and forestry residues. The biomass is gasified to produce synthesis gas (syngas), which is a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2), before being produced into liquids comprised of very clean hydrocarbon fractions, that can be converted further to automotive fuels.
