The semi-commercial scale facility uses a proprietary biomass fractionation process to convert agricultural waste, including rice straw, wheat straw, banana stems, bagasse, Palm EFB, Brachiaria (Brazil), and hemp, into materials like lignin, cellulose, biobased silica, and hemi-cellulose.
The facility is biomass agnostic with near-zero liquid discharge, making it an environmentally friendly and waste-free operation.
According to Navin Singhania, founder of Barracuda Technologies, the modular biorefinery concept “changes the entire scenario on long standing bottlenecks concerning supply chain & logistical issues associated with low-density feedstocks and CAPEX.” The Barracuda process is low cost, clean and circular, Singhania, who is nicknamed “Fiberman,” added.