Mercurius
Biofuels
turning biomass into value...
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4/22/13
Mercurius chosen for DOE grant! Big News Page
6/26/12
Mercurius is featured in the BiofuelsDigest again! Here
8/18/11
Mercurius publishes Summer 2011 edition of the Mercurius Times Read More
6/15/11
Mercurius Biofuels is mentioned in SAFN Report Read More
6/7/11
Mercurius Biofuels technology featured in Biorefinery Magazine Read More
Welcome to Mercurius!
Mercurius Biofuels was founded in 2008 and later incorporated into Mercurius Biorefining. Our mission is to produce profitable drop-in fuel (Jet Fuel and Diesel) from non-food biomass feedstocks including waste from municipalities, forestry, and agriculture. Through a process of novel applications of existing technologies, Mercurius is developing a method of producing drop-in biofuels. Mercurius uses Renewable Acid-hydrolysis Condensation Hydrotreating (REACH) technology, a patent pending technology to make profitable drop-in hydrocarbon liquid fuels.
Fuels Development
Mercurius is developing transformative cellulosic diesel technology.
We are concurrently developing technology to produce a cellulosic jet fuel.
Why the Name Mercurius?
Who was Mercurius Ter Maximus and why was he chosen as a symbol to represent the goals of a company? He is a combination of the gods of writing and of magic in their respective Greek and Egyptian cultures. Thus, the Greek god of interpretive communication was combined with the Egyptian god of wisdom as a Roman god of astrology and alchemy. His divine influence over alchemy, which had the goal of turning a plentiful element (lead) into a precious rare element (gold), seemed to fit neatly into the goal of Mercurius Biofuels to commercialize an exclusively licensed process using a novel catalytic approach that produces diesel, jet fuel and green chemicals (gold) from cellulosic material including municipal wastes, agricultural and forestry production residues or any source that is made up of cellulose or hemi-cellulose (lead).