- Thermal-mechanical pre-treatment
- Enzymatic hydrolysis
- Co-fermentation of C5 and C6 sugars
- Distillation and evaporation
- Solid separation
- Dehydration
- Energy integration which results in plants that:
- Are adjustable to most feedstock
- Achieve high C6 and C5 sugar conversion rates
- Are highly energy efficient
- Require lower specific CAPEX and have lower OPEX
- Are environmentally friendly - requiring very low or no dilute acids depending on feedstock
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Focusing on effective pre-treatment and conversion to sugars via enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation makes our patent pending process ideal for combination and integration with other technologies and industrial processes.
The front end technology of our process can be combined with established starch based ethanol plants and sugarcane mills as well as the emerging sugar to diesel and chemical technologies.
Sugars and lignin can be converted into a wide range of value added products such as butanol organic acids, and biodegradable resins.
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