Are any waste products produced with the licensed process?
The licensed process has been consciously designed to be “zero-discharge” from a process view. This means that, to the extent possible, the BlueFire Ethanol process recovers and recycles all reagents used to effect the hydrolysis of cellulose. Virtually everything that comes into the plant as feedstock leaves the plant as valuable output product. However, as with any process that handles biomass, there are certain “fugitive” particulate emissions. In the BlueFire Ethanol process, these types of emissions are extremely limited and of no significant consequence.
