Mar 23 2010
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has awarded a contract to Pall Corporation to develop a vital filtration and separation processes for an advanced biofuels project of U.S. Department of Energy. Pall Corporation is a world leader in filtration, separation and purification technology. By winning the contract, Pall Corporation has become a part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC). It is an initiative from the federal government under the ARRA (American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) to advance the creation of biofuels industry in the country, to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and to generate jobs.
Pall Corporation will develop separation technologies that will allow fungible biomass-based fuels to be incorporated into the existing hydrocarbon fuels infrastructure. The program aims to evaluate six processes involved for the production of biofuel and Pall Corporation will an engineering partner for all the processes. Catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, fermentation, hydropyrolysis, catalytic conversion, and one-step syngas-to-distillates process are the six processes for biofuel production.
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing of Pall Energy, Greg Heilbrunn, said the company is delighted to be a part of this key research collaboration. The company’s expertise in both alternative and conventional energy applications in separation technologies will enable a positive outcome of the consortium’s research, Heilbrunn said.
The other consortium members in the $46 million project in addition to Pall Corporation include Amyris Biotechnologies, Albemarle Corporation, Argonne National Laboratory, Washington State University, BP Products North America Inc., Catchlight Energy, LLC, Colorado School of Mines, Iowa State University, Virent Energy Systems, Tesoro companies, Inc., Los Alamos National Laboratory, RTI International, University of California- Davis, and UOP LLC.
Source: http://www.pall.com