Process commercialization for renewable hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals. learn more
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Opportunity
Methane derived from renewable biogas and natural gas will be a major and increasingly important feedstock for transportation fuels and chemical intermediates in the 21st Century. The total market for these products is enormous. For example, the U.S. market for transportation fuels is approximately 300 billion gallons per year, 65% of which is currently derived from foreign imports of crude oil and finished products.
There is a rapidly growing demand for sustainable advanced renewable fuels that can replace a meaningful fraction of crude oil-derived fuels. GRT provides a new cost-effective technology solution that can meet this demand. Utilizing biomass resources currently available in the U.S. the GRT technology could displace 100 billion gallons per year of gasoline currently produced from crude oil. learn more
Technology
GRT has developed a highly flexible technology that converts methane to gasoline or other hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals. Low cost methane can be obtained from several sources, including biogas produced using anaerobic digestion of renewable biomass and stranded natural gas. GRT's technology will allow over one billion tons of non-food biomass to be converted to a drop-in replacement or blendstock for gasoline or jet fuel that is fully compatible with exisiting engines and the fuel distribution infrastructure. The process uses bromine to convert the relatively inactive feedstock to an active intermediate. Selective reaction of this intermediate over proprietary catalysts is then used to form the desired products. GRT has shown that the same basic process can be applied to make a wide variety high volume chemicals and liquid fuels including olefins, aromatics, and high octane gasoline blend stocks. learn more
Who We Are
GRT, Inc. is a privately held technology company established in 1999 with the goal of developing and commercializing a transformational gas to liquids (GTL) process applicable to small to medium sized gas resources. GRT jointly developed its core technology with the University of California, Santa Barbara, with GRT holding the exclusive license. Working in collaboration with our strategic partners from the petroleum, chemical, and agricultural industries, GRT has successfully operated the technology at the pilot plant scale. GRT's immediate goal is the demonstration of our Biomass to Fuels Process at the multiple barrel per day scale, to be followed by commercial operations. about us