Comstock marketing cellulosic ethanol production technology for commercial scale facilities

In Nevada, Comstock Inc. announced that it is marketing its cellulosic ethanol production technology for construction of commercial scale facilities, with a focus on upgrading pre-existing first generation corn ethanol facilities to convert forestry residuals and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into cellulosic ethanol at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost when compared to corn.

Comstock’s technology efficiently fractionates wood into purified biointermediates that are uniquely isolated and free of the inhibitors and contaminants that have frustrated prior attempts at broadly commercializing cellulosic fuels technologies. Comstock’s first biointermediate is a purified form of cellulosic sugar that can be used as a chemically identical “drop-in” feedstock in corn ethanol facilities to produce about 80 gallons of advanced cellulosic ethanol per dry ton of woody biomass.