Fulcrum successfully starts its Sierra biofuels plant operations

Fulcrum BioEnergy announced the completion of commissioning and the initial operations of its Sierra biofuels plant - the world’s first landfill waste to renewable transportation fuels plant.
The Sierra Biorefinery began operations, processing prepared waste feedstock and successfully producing the high-quality hydrocarbon synthetic gas, or syngas, which is ideal for conventional Fischer-Tropsch fuel production.
Sierra plant operations will now move on to the final step in Fulcrum’s waste to fuels process, converting the syngas into liquid fuel.
“This operations achievement at our Sierra plant is a real breakthrough step in making waste to fuels a reality. This is a tremendous moment for our company and a major milestone for our construction management, operations and engineering teams who have worked tirelessly to integrate more than 30 different plant systems in Fulcrum’s unique and patented process,” said Eric Pryor, Fulcrum’s president and CEO.
“Fulcrum is launching an entirely new source of low-cost, domestically produced, net-zero carbon transportation fuel, which will contribute to the aviation industry’s carbon reduction goals, US energy security and address climate stability.”
The Sierra BioFuels Plant, located outside of Reno, Nevada, includes both a Feedstock Processing Facility and a Biorefinery with the capacity to convert approximately 175,000 tons of prepared landfill waste into approximately 11 million gallons of renewable syncrude annually, which will then be upgraded to renewable transportation fuel.