Bioenergy group Terrabon awarded jet fuel project for US defense agency
7/25/2011 12:00:00 AM
Logos Technologies delivers technology like that of DARPA’s renewable jet fuel initiative for the government and commercial clients, officials said.
DARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense.
Started in April 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s demonstration facility in Bryan, Texas, in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s advanced bio-refining technology MixAlco, in preparation for commercialization of this technology.
“An important focus of this DARPA effort is to produce a sustainable, cost-effective, non-fossil-fuel-based solution to support the military’s jet fuel needs. We thoroughly reviewed many potential processes and solutions for this initiative, and came to the conclusion that this goal can best be achieved with help of Terrabon and their mixed alcohol oligomerization pathway, MixAlco,” said Dr. Greg Poe, CEO of Logos Technologies.
MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels.
“Our country continues to be in need of finding alternative energy solutions to one day achieve independence from foreign resources. Therefore, this project is a major milestone along that journey for DARPA, Logos and Terrabon, and further validates the market demand for companies like ours to assist the government in the creation of innovative and cost-effective biofuel technologies to produce green jet fuel and other hydrocarbons,” said Gary Luce, CEO, of Terrabon.
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