CELLULOSIC ETHANOL 101
CONSOLIDATED BIOPROCESSING
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
BEYOND ETHANOL

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Consolidated Bio-Processing

Harnesses the power of nature’s best cellulose utilizing and ethanol fermenting microbes and allows nature to do the majority of the work resulting in a simpler process consisting of a mild pretreatment followed by the introduction of microbes that both hydrolyze and ferment the sugars into ethanol;

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Gasification and Catalysis

Gasification is a capital intensive process, which can utilize cellulose as well as non-cellulose materials (tires) in an energy intensive deconstructive step which generates large amounts of excess and unrecoverable heat to produce syngas which is reacted with a catalyst to produce a mixture of alcohols including ethanol.  These alcohols then go through a separation sequence in order to obtain pure ethanol;

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Traditional Processes

In various stages of development for decades, these processes aim to unlock the sugars from cellulosic biomass through an expensive multistep processes that can include harsh mechanical or chemical pretreatment followed by the addition of externally produced enzymes prior to lignin filtration and separate fermentation of the sugar to ethanol;