Terrabon’s sewage-to-fuel plan wins investment from Waste Management
From Green Right Now Reports
Terrabon LLC, a Houston company that’s been investigating making fuel from waste for more than a decade, announced this week that waste collection giant Waste Management of Houston will become an investment partner.
WM, along with existing investment partner Valero Energy Corporation, hopes to make Terrabon’s vision of producing gasoline from waste a viable green alternative fuel within about two years.
Terrabon, unlike ethanol producers, will make its fuel, called MixAlco, from sewage, human solid waste and organic food garbage, not food stock. And it’s output will be a virtual chemical match (but at a higher octane) for the stuff that’s already powering your car or truck, not a gasoline additive. This key difference means that the Terrabon fuel can be added directly to the existing gasoline fuel stream, a convenience that the company is promoting as an easy, green way to reduce US reliance on foreign oil.
MixAlco - so the plan goes - could displace some yet undetermined percentage of crude oil in gasoline without any special infrastructure, once it’s distilled from the sewage or organic waste that serves as its “feeder stock” or base material.
The company has been developing this proprietary technology by supporting research led by chemical engineering professor Dr. Mark T. Holtzapple at Texas A&M University since the 1990s. It hopes to have a fermentation facility up and running at Port Arthur in 2011.
We asked Terrabon CFO Malcolm F. McNeill to …
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