Our Plants
Range Fuels has been operating a first-of-its-kind fully integrated thermo-chemical conversion pilot plant at its Development Center in Denver, Colorado since 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 mixed alcohols. These alcohols are then separated and processed to maximize the yield of ethanol of a quality suitable for use in blending with gasoline to fuel vehicles.
The pilot plant is being used to optimize the thermo-chemical conversion process Range Fuels will employ at its first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant being built near Soperton, Georgia.