A different future for carbon wastes and transportation fuels
Waste has more to give.
Bioroot Energy is developing pathways to turn discarded carbon materials, such as plastics and woody wastes, into higher mixed alcohols: clean, powerful liquid fuels and chemical building blocks for a world that still runs on liquids.
Our purpose
Make more from materials we all throw away.
Municipal waste, woody biomass, and other carbon rich streams present a vast resource challenge. Bioroot Energy works to connect waste management with the production of versatile alcohol molecules.
Our focus is higher mixed alcohols: a family of water-soluble, biodegradable liquid compounds with myriad uses in transportation fuels, electrification, heating, and chemical manufacturing.
The approach
From discarded carbon to useful liquids.
01 / INPUT
Recover carbon streams
Identify suitable waste and biomass feedstocks that can be processed at scale.
02 / CONVERT
Produce synthesis gas
Thermochemical conversion creates a carbon monoxide and hydrogen intermediate syngas for further processing.
03 / SYNTHESIZE
Produce 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
Go deeper
Explore the science and the people behind it.
How gasification works
Understand the conversion step
Mixed alcohols and ethanol
Read the existing comparison
Meet the leadership
Learn about founder Jay Toups