LS9 working with HCL Cleantech on DOE-funded $9M project for biomass to renewable fuels
18 July 2011
LS9 Inc., a synthetic biology company producing renewable fuels and chemicals directly by microbes, is working with HCL Cleantech on a $9-million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to improve and to demonstrate an integrated process to convert biomass feedstocks into fermentable sugars and then into drop-in diesel and other renewable fuel and chemical products. (Earlier post.)
As part of the DOE grant, LS9 and HCL CleanTech are combining their proprietary technologies to produce advanced drop-in biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals from wood waste and other agriculture waste.
The project is to develop and demonstrate process improvements for pretreatment, conversion to sugars, and subsequent conversion of those sugars to fuels. The complete integrated process will use concentrated hydrochloric acid hydrolysis to convert pre-extracted biomass feedstocks including wood waste into fermentable sugars (HCL’s part), and then further convert the sugars into diesel products (LS(’s part).
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