PureVision Technology: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
PureVision Technology
Based in: Colorado
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Front-end Biomass Fractionation for production of inexpensive sugars for the biofuels fermentation industry. The company extracts separate sugars and lignin streams from biomass for downstream conversion to cellulosic ethanol, butanol, next-generation drop-in biofuels or biochemicals
Model: Equipment and process sales, licensing and sublicensing fees, and royalty licensing per thousand dry tonnes of biomass fractionated
Past milestones:
1. First sale of equipment.
2. Formation of spin-off companies for marketing PureVision technology.
3. Purchase and operation of pilot Fractionator at 0.5-ton/day
Future milestones:
1. Round A financing.
2. Integrated demonstration at 20-ton/day.
3. Design of commercial-scale plant at 250-ton/day
Metrics: Commercial target of 10-cents per dry pound sugar. Projected impact on downstream cost of biofuels is a 10-20% reduction per gallon, with an expansion in feedstocks to all cellulosic material. At pilot stage, with a working 1/2-ton per day scale Fractionator producing data to be used in the design of a 20-ton per day scale Fractionator in 2010. A commercial-scale 250-ton per day Fractionator is scheduled for 2012, with first units shipped in that year. Projected revenues for 2009 are $250,000.
Pure Vision quotable quotes:
“PureVision Biomass Fractionation Process effectively and efficiently separates lignocellulosics biomass into useful intermediate components including cellulose fiber, xylose-rich syrup, lignin and biogrowth media. The high purity, high yeild cellulose fiber is available for pulp applications or efficient hydrolysis to glucose. The energetically-dense glucose and xylose syrups can be converted, via thermochemical or biocatalytic routes, to ethanol, butanol, and many other chemicals. The sulfur-free, highly-depolymerized, energetically-dense lignin can be converted to biofuels or used directly as boiler fuel. The low-toxicity extractives-rich liquor is a suitable biogrowth media to produce yeast feed protein or for biocatalyst propagation. The flexibility of the front-end PureVision Biomass Fractionation Process to produce diverse fractionated product streams provides a hedge against the volatile fuel market; and allows for future technological upgrades to higher-value fuels and chemicals.”
“Century Extrusion is a strategic manufacturing partner with the ability to rapidly build and ship finished units worldwide. ICM has filed for a DOE grant with PureVision as a sub-contractor to provide front end fractionation for a pilot plant. An agreement is in place regardless of grants to co-locate a PureVision Fractionator at their facility in St. Joseph, Missouri. Gevo has also filed for a DOE grant with PureVision to provide commercial demonstration of an integrated biorefinery with cellulosic feedstock. Microbiogen Pty Ltd. is the world’s leading non-GMO yeast developer and has an agreement with PureVision to co-develop an integrated process for maximizing yields from the PureVision process for multiple cellulosic feedstocks. Numerous other strategic partnerships are in process with technology companies, energy companies and foreign governments and companies to provide front end fractionation for cellulosic feedstocks.”
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