Recover carbon streams
Identify suitable waste and biomass feedstocks that can be processed at scale.
A different future for carbon waste
Waste has more to give.
Bioroot Energy is developing pathways to turn discarded carbon materials into higher mixed alcohols: liquid fuels and chemical building blocks for a world that still runs on liquids.
Our purpose
Make more from materials we throw away.
Municipal waste, woody biomass, and other carbon rich streams present a resource challenge. Bioroot Energy works to connect waste conversion with the production of versatile alcohol molecules.
Our focus is higher mixed alcohols, not biogas: a family of liquid compounds with potential uses in transportation fuels, heating, and chemical manufacturing.
The approach
From discarded carbon to useful liquids.
Produce synthesis gas
Thermochemical conversion creates a carbon monoxide and hydrogen intermediate for further processing.
Make alcohols
Convert cleaned synthesis gas into a mixture of alcohols for fuel or further separation into individual chemicals.
The product
One platform. Multiple uses.
Higher mixed alcohols bring together familiar liquid fuel handling with a broader range of molecular products.
- Liquid fuel blends for transportation and stationary uses
- Individual alcohols as chemical intermediates
- Potential value from feedstocks now treated as disposal problems
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