In Florida, Blue Biofuels said it has been awarded a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy amounting to $1.15 million.
The firm said that this funding will support the final stages of scaling the company’s patented Cellulose-to-Sugar (CTS) process, a technology that efficiently converts plant-based cellulose into sugars, which are fermented into ethanol to be used as sustainable biofuels. This Phase 2 grant follows the successful completion of Phase 1, where Blue Biofuels demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of its CTS process, paving the way for this Phase 2 grant, the company added.
The awarded grant will be utilized to complete the scaling of the CTS process, enabling Blue Biofuels to move forward with commercial deployment. With the successful completion of the Phase 2 project, all stages of the process—from biomass collection to ethanol production—will be fully integrated, optimized, and scaled up.
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Tags: Blue Biofuels, Cellulose-to-Sugar, ethanol, Florida
Category: Fuels
