• Premium Hydrocarbon Products:
  Virent’s renewable hydrocarbons can be used as chemicals or blended in high concentrations to make premium quality gasoline, diesel, or jet fuels with global market acceptance. These products can readily enter the market using existing pipelines and fuel pumps to power today’s vehicles at high blends.

• Feedstock Flexible: 
Sugar mixtures, including 5 and 6 carbon sugars, disaccharides, and other water soluble polysaccharides derived from sugar and energy crops, as well as agricultural and forestry residues, are possible feedstocks.  This flexibility translates into more biomass options and lower input costs.

• Low Carbon Fuels: 
The process is CO2 neutral, water positive, and has low life cycle emissions.  This energy efficient, exothermic process yields more net energy than corn ethanol as it runs under moderate conditions, requires no external energy inputs, and its products separate naturally from water.

• Robust Catalytic Process: 
Catalysts provide increased productivity due to faster chemical reactions, proven process reliability, reduced energy requirements, and demonstrated scalability to large production volumes.  In contrast to biological processes which depend on living enzymes or microbes, catalysts are capable of utilizing variable feedstocks and producing a range of molecules.

• Cost-Competitive Biorefinery Solution: 
Feedstocks and end products can be optimized based on local market conditions.  The low energy requirements of this fast and continuous process reduce operating costs and the technology manufactures products for use at high blends with petroleum fuels in existing distribution infrastructure. Together, these attributes provide a biorefinery solution that is economical and provides a broad mix of high value products.

Virent’s BioForming technology is transforming how biofuels and bioproducts are sourced, produced, and transported.   It’s the sustainable and economical solution to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.  It’s the BioForming difference.