{"id":97,"date":"2022-12-12T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-02-13T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:29:43","slug":"trillium-awarded-doe-funding-for-biobased-acrylonitrile-demonstration-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/2022\/12\/12\/trillium-awarded-doe-funding-for-biobased-acrylonitrile-demonstration-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillium awarded DOE funding for biobased acrylonitrile demonstration plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>New award will enable Trillium and its project partners (Solvay, Koch Modular, MATRIC) to demonstrate sustainable production of acrylonitrile at scale.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Knoxville, December 5, 2022<\/strong><br>Trillium Renewable Chemicals has been selected by the Department of Energy\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Office to receive $2.5 million to accelerate commercialization of Trillium\u2019s process to manufacture bio-based acrylonitrile product. Trillium and its development partner (MATRIC) are currently operating a pilot plant in Charleston, West Virginia. This nondilutive funding, in combination with Trillium\u2019s recent Series A closing of $10.6M, provides funding to Trillium and MATRIC to design, build, and operate a market demonstration unit \u2013 the next step in Trillium\u2019s commercialization plan. Trillium will provide product to Solvay for validation of the product for use in manufacturing of carbon fiber. Solvay will also perform an independent ISO 9001 lifecycle analysis of Trillium\u2019s product. Koch Modular will provide a front-end loading engineering design of a first commercial plant.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acrylonitrile is a chemical intermediate typically made from petroleum-based feedstocks like propylene and is a key raw material used in the production of carbon fiber, acrylic fiber, acrylamide, ABS plastic, nitrile butadiene rubber, and other valuable products. Trillium\u2019s BioACN\u2122 process delivers acrylonitrile from plant-based feedstocks like glycerol with a lower carbon footprint. By starting with biobased raw materials, Trillium\u2019s product offers the potential to decarbonize a wide range of industrial and consumer products.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDemonstration of the Bio-ACN\u2122 process at larger scale is an exciting next step,\u201d explains Corey Tyree, CEO of Trillium. \u201cThanks to the Department of Energy, this project brings together participants across the supply chain to accelerate progress by supporting our next major commercial milestone. The unit will produce the volumes needed to qualify as a supplier. And it will provide the information we need to further de-risk and design a commercial plant. Trillium is proud to be amongst the awardees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Relations<br><\/strong>Corey Tyree<br>+1 (205) 757-5938<br>ctyree@trilliumchemicals.com<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elena Brennan<br>+1 (865) 329-0553<br>elena@piper-communications.com<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter @TrilliumChem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT TRILLIUM RENEWABLE CHEMICALS<br><\/strong>Trillium is replacing oil and gas with plant-based feedstocks in the manufacturing of green,<br>drop-in molecules. Trillium has developed proprietary thermochemical technology to<br>convert plant-based feedstocks like glycerol into valuable chemical intermediates<br>(acrylonitrile and acetonitrile). Acrylonitrile is used to manufacture a wide-range of<br>materials (e.g., acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plastic, carbon fiber, acrylic fiber,<br>nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), acrylamide, specialty amines). As the worldwide demand for<br>these chemicals increase, Trillium is providing a green alternative. Learn more at<br>www.trilliumchemicals.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trillium Renewable Chemicals has been selected by the Department of Energy\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Office to receive $2.5 million to accelerate commercialization of Trillium\u2019s process to manufacture bio-based acrylonitrile product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,10,9,6,7,5],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-acrylonitrile","tag-department-of-energy","tag-doe","tag-feedstocks","tag-glycerol","tag-plant-based-feedstocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trilliumchemicals.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}