MixAlco® – Overview
MixAlco® is an advanced bio-refining technology that 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 gasoline fuels.
Through an advanced bio-refining technology, MixAlco® converts materials such as municipal solid waste (MSW), sewage sludge, forest product residues such as wood chips, wood molasses and other wood waste, and non-edible energy crops such as sweet sorghum into a wide array of chemicals and secondary alcohols that can be further refined through separate, well-established processes to produce renewable gasoline, jet fuel or diesel. The gasoline produced through the MixAlco® technology is not ethanol. In fact, it has a higher energy value than ethanol and can be blended directly with gasoline produced from hydrocarbons.
MixAlco® Process Flow Diagram
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Fast Facts
Our Strategic Partners:
- Waste Management Inc.
- Valero Energy Corp.
- Texas Emerging Technology Fund
- Texas Systems & Controls
- CRI Catalyst Company
- Logos Technologies
Our Technologies:
Our Timeline:
- 1995: Terrabon founded
- 2009: Demonstration plant constructed
- 2011: Break ground on first bio-refinery
- 2013: Bio-refinery fully operational
