| Project Owner... |
Tesoro
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| Project name |
former Virent Eagle Demonstration Plant
|
| Status |
cancelled
|
| Startup |
2009
|
| Country |
United States
|
| City |
Madison
|
| State |
Wisconsin
|
| Type |
TRL 6-7 Demonstration
|
| Technology |
Other Technology
|
| Raw Material |
other
|
| Input 1 |
Cane sugar, beet sugar, corn syrup, hydrolysates from cellulosic biomass including pine residues, sugarcane bagasse and corn stover
|
| Output 1 |
diesel-type hydrocarbons (30 t/y
)
|
| Partners |
Virent Inc.
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| Technology Brief |
Virent™s BioForming® platform is based on a novel combination of Aqueous Phase Reforming (APR) technology with modified conventional catalytic processing. The APR technology was discovered at the University of Wisconsin in 2001 by Virent™s co-founders. The BioForming platform expands the utility of the APR process by combining APR with catalysts and reactor systems similar to those found in standard petroleum oil refineries and petrochemical complexes.
The BioForming process converts aqueous carbohydrate solutions into mixtures of drop-in hydrocarbons. The process has been demonstrated with conventional sugars obtained from existing sugar sources (corn wet mills, sugarcane mills, etc.) as well as a wide variety of cellulosic biomass from nonfood sources. A key advantage to the BioForming process is the ability to produce hydrogen in-situ from the carbohydrate feedstock or utilize other sources of hydrogen such as natural gas for higher yields and lower costs.
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| Additional Information |
Tesoro acquired Virent to proceed with the technology development but obviously the facility is idle.
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Last Update: 2022-07-26 13:15:02
