BC International Corporation Announces New Product and Process Development Lab at University of Florida.Business/Technology Editors DEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000 BC International Corporation (BCI BCI Bat Conservation International BCI Brain-Computer Interface BCI Business Continuity Institute BCI Business Cycle Indicators BCI Banco de Credito e Inversiones (Chilean bank) BCI Bell Canada International ), a company specializing in cutting-edge biomass waste to ethanol technology, today announced the start up of its New Product and Process Development Laboratory at the University of Florida's Sid Martin - Biotechnology Lab in Alachua, Florida Alachua is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. According to 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city's population was 7,554.[2] The city is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to 243,985 people. . This Laboratory will serve as a critical component in the development and viability of wide-scale biomass ethanol facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Dr. Gregory W. Luli has been appointed as Laboratory Director and Principal Investigator Noun 1. principal investigator - the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project PI scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences . Dr. Luli has more than twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of industrial experience in fermentation technology and new product and process development. According to Dr. Joseph Glas, Vice President of BCI, Dr. Luli will lead research teams pursuing two primary missions: (1) sustaining and improving BCI's current cost advantage in the production of ethanol from agricultural and forest product wastes; and (2) developing fermentation processes for high value chemicals and intermediates that take advantage of low cost sugars generated using BCI's proprietary processes. Dr. Luli's initial focus with BCI will be the development of a commercially viable process that uses cellulase cel·lu·lase n. Any of several enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose. enzymes to recover sugars from cellulosic wastes to achieve significantly higher yields and reduced by-product by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. by-product Noun 1. wastes. Simultaneously, he will initiate research to develop fermentation processes for targeted high value chemicals and intermediates. The project is partially supported by a $455,000.00 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (NREL NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) ) located in Golden, Colorado. The NREL grant is one of the first steps taken by the Administration to support private sector initiatives in response to the President's August 27, 1999 Executive Order: As the President noted, the Executive Order Developing and Promoting Biobased Products and Bioenergy is to help "further the development of a comprehensive national strategy that includes research, development, and private sector initiatives to stimulate the creation and early adoption of technologies needed to make biobased products and bioenergy cost-competitive in national and international markets." BC International Corporation is a biotechnology startup company dedicated to early commercialization of its proprietary technologies for the production of high value chemicals, beginning with ethanol, at its Jennings, Louisiana plant site. For more information about BC International please visit the company's web site at www.bcintlcorp.com. |
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