Tunable Separations, Inc

Location:30305, US
Speaker:Michael Kotelec
Title:Founder & CEO
Primary Industry:Energy
Executive Summary:COMPANY: Provide Membrane Systems for Liquid Separations University of Colorado/Colorado School of Mines Incubated Technology CUSTOMERS: Biorefineries, Petrochemical Refineries, Water Treatment Wastewater Treatment, etc. MARKET: Ethanol: 5.6B gal/yr US 2007 36 B gal/yr 2022 OPPORTUNITY: Membrane Solution that Enables Continuous Batch Operations in Ethanol Plants Potential market size $1-$2B BENEFITS: Higher Yield Per Input Corn/Cellulose Requires Fewer Fermenters & Delivers More Efficient/Lower Cost Purification – Eliminates Distillation Capital Cost reduction by 50% to $1.00/Gallon Energy Cost Reduction by 66% to $0.07/Gallon CAPITAL NEEDS: $3M for 24 Months Build Commercial Prototype Technology Validation/Customer Engagement
Venture is:Seed Level

HIGHLIGHTS
Merck
Corporate Symposium
Harvard OTD
Partner Sponsor

2008 Corporate Presentations
Air Products
Boeing
BP
Cabot
Honda
Kodak
Medtronic
Merck
  • BASF
  • Genzyme
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Sanyo

Event Sponsors
Univalor
AzTE
Jackson Walker

Collocated Events

June 1-5, 2008
Nanotech 2008
Clean Technology 2008
BioNano 2008

Press Sponsor
Business Wire

Commercialization Partner
BusinessWeek

Media Sponsors
(joint with Nanotech 2008) Nature
Science
Red Herring

Supporting Organizations
Boston University
Midwest Research University Network
piribo

 

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