The Pleasanton, California, company reports a demonstration-scale operation in which municipal solid waste is turned into synthesis gas, or syngas, which is then converted to fuel-grade ethanol through an “alcohol synthesis process” licensed from Nipawin Biomass Ethanol New Generation Co-operative and Saskatchewan Research Council.
The results are from the company’s TurningPoint Ethanol Plant. The technology “is ready for deployment at our first large-scale project, the Sierra BioFuels Plant”, states chief executive E.
