Under the 18-month contract, the customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s demonstration facility in Texas.
The facility is expected to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s advanced bio-refining technology MixAlco, in preparation for commercialization of this technology.
MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels.
DARPA is an agency of the US Department of Defense, and the customized production process for DARPA has started in April of this year.
Logos Technologies CEO Greg Poe said an important focus of this DARPA effort is to produce a sustainable, cost-effective, non-fossil-fuel-based solution to support the military’s jet fuel needs.
