tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32961289.post-73396715708888622212008-01-08T14:31:00.000-08:002008-01-08T14:34:57.481-08:00Novus Energy, Oxford Catalysts building pilot plant<br />January 8, 2008. By David Ehrlich, cleantech.com <br /><br />The above companies are working on the production of cellulosic ethanol made from organic waste. <br /> <br />Cellulosic ethanol is getting a new team with Minneapolis, Minn.- based Novus Energy joining up with the U.K.'s Oxford Catalysts for a pilot plant that will produce the next generation fuel from organic waste.<br /><br />The new 100 gallon per day facility is expected to be up and running in the spring of this year.<br /><br />"We're in the final stages," John Offerman, president of Novus Energy, told Cleantech.com. "We're fabricating the components right now to do the biogas to liquid fuels process."<br /><br />Offerman said Novus has been working on the project with the U.S. Department of Energy for the past three years and has already run the process at a room-size scale.<br /><br />The company, which is in the middle of raising a $7.5 million C round from angel investors, plans to use an anaerobic bio-digester to process waste, setting up plants on-site at food and agricultural processors, landfills and municipal wastewater treatment plants.<br /><br />Novus' system will produce methane-rich biogas, and then use Oxford Catalysts' technology to convert the biogas into feedstock for fuel-grade alcohol.<br /><br />The pilot plant will go up in Laramie, Wy., at the Western Research Institute, which is affiliated with the University of Wyoming.<br /><br />But Novus isn't the only company trying to get ethanol from waste.<br /><br />Broomfield, Colo.'s Range Fuels, which started work on a planned 100 million gallon per year plant in Georgia in November, also expects to be able to use a similar assortment of feedstocks for its process (see Range Fuels' Mitch Mandich breaks ground). <a href="http://media.cleantech.com/2265/novus-energy-oxford-catalysts-building-pilot-plant" rel="nofollow">More...</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit the <a href="http://www.anaerobic-digestion.com">Anaerobic Digestion</a> Community web site, for the growing buzz around biogas digesters.<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32961289-7339671570888862221?l=anaerobic-digestion-news.blogspot.com'/></div>Steve Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760237819154188738noreply@blogger.com0