Biobased Fuels

Traditionally ethanol is produced by the microbial fermentation of the starch or sugar derived from corn or other food based crops. New interest has aligned in the area of cellulosic ethanol, where the cellulose portion of a plant is broken down to sugars and subsequently converted to ethanol. The infrastructure and technology to produce cellulosic ethanol has yet to scale sufficiently to meet the demands of the marketplace as well resolve the debate on fuels and food. Capital market constraints are effecting the development of cellulosic ethanol plants as the market supports the existing ethanol infrastructure already deployed.

Uniquely, GlycosBio has discovered a biological process to convert feedstocks that contain glycerin, such as the thin stillage or condensed syrup from the existing ethanol production process that can immediately be leveraged to provide existing ethanol plants access to advance ethanol as well an ability to create new profit streams from the glycerin embedded in the existing thin stillage located at the plant.