Premium Liquid Fuel Products: The technology produces a wide range of high quality hydrocarbon fuels that have no barriers to full market penetration.  With the same composition and energy content as petroleum fuels, these biofuels can be distributed through existing pipelines and fuel pumps, and used at high blends with, or as drop in replacements for, petroleum fuels in today’s engines.  They can also work in applications currently without viable biofuel solutions, such as air travel. 

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 waste, 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 runs under moderate conditions and requires no external energy inputs.  The process yields 30% more net energy than corn ethanol due to the natural separation of gasoline from water (ethanol distillation requires energy inputs of nearly 50% of its final energy content).

Improved Land and Resource Utilization: Use of non-food feedstocks and non-inflationary energy sources can provide more value to farmers without reducing available food supplies. Also produces water as a byproduct, providing a potential resource for agricultural and industrial applications.

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 of producing a range of molecules.