Koch subsidiary signs EPC contract to build Renewable Fuels facility at Louisiana port

Optimized Process Designs, an affiliate company of Koch Engineered Solutions, has signed a definitive Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) agreement with Fidelis New Energy for its renewable fuels processing facility along the Port of Greater Baton Rouge

The EPC firm will handle construction on the Grön Facility and related infrastructure for supporting the GigaSystem carbon negative renewable fuels facility. The GigaSystem uses Carbon Capture and Sequestration with Carbon Negative Power and facilitates the production of carbon negative renewable fuels.

"OPD truly lived up to their name 'Optimized Process Designs' by working collaboratively with Fidelis PMO to implement the Fidelis RACER framework to fully optimize energy efficiency, reduce carbon intensity, and maximize the circularity of the facility,” Bengt Jarlsjo, Fidelis Co-Founder, Partner, and President said. “For example, the Fidelis PMO worked closely with OPD to maximize the use of steam generated by waste heat capture for emissions-free power generation and incorporated a renewable natural gas production facility that will use the liquid byproducts of Grön Fuels' highly flexible pretreatment system to produce biogas.”

The biofuels facility is expected to be capable of producing one billion gallons of biofuels and the equivalent of 1,000 MW in electrolyzer-generated hydrogen. Hydrogen does not emit carbon and is seen as creating carbon-negative renewable fuels when combined with carbon capture.

In March, Fidelis selected Babcock & Wilcox to deliver the 200-MW power plant that will provide electricity for the Grön biofuels processing plant.

The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the northernmost port on the Mississippi River which can handle the larger cargo ships from the Gulf.

Koch Engineered Solutions is a unit of privately held Koch Industries.