The technology is expected to enhance ethanol yields and to undertake large-scale commercial testing of Edeniq’s cellulosic ethanol pathway platform.
The Keyes facility generates about 60 million gallons of ethanol a year with the cellunator technology expected to enable better conversion of feedstock particles from corn and other plant materials to produce sugars.
Additionally, the pathway platform integrates enzymes with the cellunator to produce cellulosic ethanol from existing plant infrastructure.
Aemetis chairman and CEO Eric McAfee remarked that this partnership will allow the company to expand advanced biofuels production.
"The addition of Edeniq’s technology is expected to immediately improve our ethanol yield, and allow us to produce cellulosic ethanol at commercial scale by upgrading of existing corn ethanol production facility.
"Edeniq’s technology will help us lead the transition to next generation, lower carbon, lower cost biofuels derived from a variety of renewable feedstocks such as grasses, agricultural residues, and purpose-grown energy crops," McAfee added.
