Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology.

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. (Earlier post.) In January 2011, Terrabon reported exceeding its target yield threshold of 70 gallons of biogasoline per dry ton of garbage. (Earlier post.)

Terrabon was formed in 1995 to commercialize three technologies developed by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, a member of the Texas A&M University System:

• MixAlco;
• AdVe, a water desalination process that utilizes advanced vapor-compression evaporation to desalinate salt water into potable water; and
• SoluPro, a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives.