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RENEWABLE IONIC LIQUIDS For Biomass Pretreatment BERKELEY LAB EXPERTISE NANOTECHNOLOGY ©Nanosys, Inc. BIOENGINEERING PAIN POINT BIO-BASED FUELS AND CHEMICALS Although biomass pretreatment with ionic liquids increases sugar monomer yield, the high cost to manufacture ionic liquids necessitates almost 100% recovery across the pretreatment process. SEMICONDUCTORS SOLUTION A Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) technology converts chemicals derived from lignin – a low cost feedstock readily available from the biomass saccharification process – into ENERGY EFFICIENCY ionic liquids. Photo Courtesy of Nanosys, Inc. APPLICATIONS • Biofuel production • Catalysis HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING • Manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, polymers, lithium ion battery additives, and other products • Paper pulping BATTERIES ADVANTAGES • Facilitates cost effective use of ionic liquids for biomass pretreatment • Enables commercially viable ionic liquid biorefineries LIFE SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT STAGE Researchers generated four new room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) capable of solubilizing STATUS Patent pending. Available for licensing or collaborative research. For more details on this technology, go to http://ipo.lbl.gov/lbnl2013-042/ REFERENCE NUMBER 2013-042 CONTACT Peter Matlock, JBEI Director of Commercialization [email protected] 510-486-5803 L AWR E NC E BE R KELEY N ATI O N A L LA B O RATORY • [email protected] All photos ©The Regents of the University of California through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, except as noted. lignin for the pretreatment of lignocellulose. SENSORS/DETECTORS BIO-BASED FUELS & CHEMICALS IMAGING SOFTWARE SUBSURFACE