A: Virent is developing production capabilities for biogasoline, sugar-based diesel, bio jet fuel, and hydrogen.
Q: What is the status of your liquid fuels development program?
A: Virent has demonstrated viable yields of biogasoline from glycerol, sorbitol, glucose, corn syrup, and sucrose feedstocks. Virent has also converted mixed sugar streams, including C5 C6 and complex sugars, from cellulosic biomass into biogasoline. We have a non-exclusive development and license agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to jointly advance the BioForming process for production of liquid fuels.
Q: What is the status of your hydrogen development program?
A: Shell Hydrogen and Virent announced a strategic joint development agreement in May 2007 to develop and deploy hydrogen generation systems for filling station applications. The pilot of a distributed hydrogen generation system started in July 2007. Larger scale systems for centralized hydrogen applications are planned.
Q: What is the status of your propylene glycol development program?
A: Virent has begun development to optimize yields of propylene glycol from biodiesel-generated glycerol after being awarded a $2 million USDA-DOE competitive grant in late 2006.
Q: Is it possible to use Virent’s technology to convert glycerol to electricity?
A: While Virent developed a prototype system to convert glycerol to 10kW of electricity for our local utility, this is not a current development focus of the company.
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