Our Plants

Range Fuels began operating a first-of-its-kind fully integrated thermo-chemical conversion pilot plant at its Development Center in Denver, Colorado in the first quarter of 2008, successfully converting wood from Colorado pine beetle kill and Georgia pine and hardwoods into renewable fuels using a two-step process. The process converts non-food biomass into a synthesis gas or syngas using heat, pressure and steam, after which the syngas is passed over a proprietary catalyst to yield cellulosic biofuels. These cellulosic biofuels can then be separated and processed to yield a variety of low carbon biofuels, including cellulosic ethanol and methanol, which can be used to displace gasoline or diesel transportation fuels, generate clean renewable energy or be used as low carbon chemical building blocks. In addition, clean renewable power is produced from energy recovered in the conversion process.