The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Advanced Energy Materials LLC, doing business as Adem, a $175,000 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA #10.212). The funding will support the company's research and development to demonstrate the production of methanol from biogas. Specifically, Adem will study the feasibility of its proprietary catalyst and process for converting biogas to syngas, and then reforming the syngas to methanol. The goal is to develop an economically viable modular process to produce 3,000-5,000 tons of methanol per year. This work aims to address the challenge of finding practical uses for biogas, which is often just flared or used in low-value applications, by converting it into a higher-value chemical product through Adem's innovative catalyst and process technologies.
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