PureVision Begins Assembly of New Fractionation Reactor
October 7, 2008PureVision Technology, Inc. (PureVision), a technology developer in the emerging biorefining industry, accepted delivery today of a major component of their new pilot plant at its Fort Lupton, Colorado headquarters. The new equipment will replace the smaller process development unit utilized by PureVision from 2004-2008.
PureVision has been developing and scaling up its unique biomass fractionation technology since 1999. This new half-ton per day reactor is the fifth and largest reactor developed and built by PureVision since conceiving the fractionation technology. The patented PureVision technology rapidly converts cellulosic biomass, including corn stalks and corncobs, wheat straw and woody biomass into industrial raw materials for making many bio-based products including ethanol and other biofuels.
The new PureVision continuous pilot plant will have a throughput capacity of approximately 1,000 pounds of dry biomass per day. PureVision and its clients will use the fractionation pilot plant to undertake countercurrent studies on various cellulosic feedstocks. Once completed, the new equipment will be able to convert cellulosic biomass into sugars and purified cellulose, which can easily be converted into glucose, a fermentation sugar used to make biofuels and other industrial chemicals.
“This is a significant milestone for our company”, stated PureVision’s president and CEO Ed Lehrburger. “During the last two years, we have developed the necessary technical data to scale up our technology to process 10 times the amount of cellulosic feedstocks compared to our first continuous reactor.” he said.
PureVision expects the new biomass fractionation pilot plant to be fully operational by December 2008.
For more information, contact Ed Lehrburger at 303-857-8530 or by
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