Terrabon, Inc.

Formed in 1995 to fund biofuel research at Texas A&M University, Terrabon, Inc is a technology transfer company that is commercializing three sustainable businesses that offer sensible, high-profit solutions to biofuel, water desalination and bio-product challenges:

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. The biomass used as feedstock includes 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. The process is very robust and requires no sterility, which significantly lowers capital costs.
AdVE™ (Advanced Vapor-Compression Evaporation) desalinates brackish and salt water with a low-cost, high-capacity process and a high-efficiency compressor and non-fouling heat exchangers. The technology operates at higher pressures and temperatures than traditional reverse osmosis (RO) and mechanical vapor-compression desalination technologies, thus making it significantly less expensive to build and operate.
SoluPro™ is an innovative bio-products chemical process which converts inexpensive protein waste material (poultry feathers, shrimp heads, distiller's dry grains, etc.) into commercial bio-adhesives and high-protein animal feed. This technology was created as a spin-off of the MixAlco® pre-treatment technology, which employees lime to increase biomass digestibility.

Terrabon, Inc.

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