NERL will use the equipment in its research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) work to support the national transportation fuel diversification objectives, which focus on the development of advanced technologies that make fuel ethanol from cellulosic biomass.

This, on the long run, will help achieve advanced biofuels goals under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

AdvanceBio Systems, which secured the contract through a bidding process under the Resource Recovery Act of 2009, will design and manufacture the entire system, utilizing AdvanceBio Systems’ proprietary technology, Ohio.

AdvanceBio Systems provides consulting services and technology to companies with regard to the development of new projects in the biofuels industry and biochemical sector. The company also develops new technologies to help its clients utilize renewable resources including starch-, sugar- and lignocellulosic-based bioethanol.