Mark Lenhart
Chicago, IL (USA)
Role(s):
AlterVia Fuels
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Location:
Chicago
Industry:
Energy
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
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Description:
AlterVia Fuels is a privately-held, pre-revenue early stage entity, currently located at the University Technology Park at IIT in Chicago, Illinois. AlterVia Fuels transforms both the conversion of corn and cellulose biomass into ethanol through a series of patent pending technologies ranging from the advanced utilization of a supercritical binary fluid process (the Thermafficient Process) to efficiently, and cost effectively produce ethanol and high value co-products while concurrently producing cooling, heating and electricity.
The further use of nanoscale materials accelerates the pretreatment process for ethanol. Integrating these technologies and patent pending thermodynamic and catalytic processes results in greater ethanol yields at greater energy efficiencies. The combinati