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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—The biofuels company Gevo (JEE’-voh) Inc. is working with a petrochemical manufacturer to build a hydrocarbon processing demonstration plant outside Houston.
Englewood, Colo.-based Gevo uses a proprietary yeast to ferment corn sugars into isobutanol, which Gevo says can be used to produce cleaner fuel and products like synthetic rubber.
Gevo and South Hampton Resources Inc. said Tuesday they plan to build a demonstration plant at South Hampton’s facility in Silsbee, Texas. It would process up to 10,000 gallons of isobutanol into renewable hydrocarbon materials including jet fuel for engine testing and isooctane for gasoline. Costs weren’t disclosed.
The demonstration plant should be complete later this year.
