CLEAN-VANTAGE LLC

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Clean-Vantage, a new company based in Richland, Washington, works on their patent protected BioChemCat TM process. The company uses wet oxidation pretreatment technology, an environmentally friendly process where no chemicals are added. Fermentation is done by a consortium of bacteria without adding enzymes, and where a high yeild of platform molecules are produced and recovered during the fermentation process. Catalysis is used to upgrade the intermediate products into the desired product. The overall process is a full concept with all parts of the biomass and process water recirculated and nutrients are recovered. The process is feedstock agnostic and allow for the conversion of any lignocellulosic biomass material. For an industrial plant a final fuel price of $2.33 has been calculated with a raw material price of $60 per metric ton (pricing data from 2007)