{"id":20212,"date":"2014-05-06T03:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=20212"},"modified":"2014-05-05T09:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T07:09:55","slug":"proterro-reaches-sugar-making-milestones-scalability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/proterro-reaches-sugar-making-milestones-scalability\/","title":{"rendered":"Proterro reaches sugar-making milestones for scalability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proterro has reached its Q1 sugar-production pilot milestones,\u201d CEO Kef Kasdin reported at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/advancedbiofuelssummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference<\/a>, in Washington, D.C. \u201cIn four months of continuous operation at our pilot plant in Orlando, Florida, our robust photobioreactors \u2013 key elements in our patented sugar-making process \u2013 yielded results verifying that our process is scalable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Proterro announced that the USPTO had issued a notice of allowance for a patent protecting the novel photobioreactor, which cultivates Proterro\u2019s patented, sugar-producing cyanobacteria, the other key part of the company\u2019s sugar-making process.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the pilot study are leading to improvements in the next-generation photobioreactor being developed with ILC Dover (ILC), the NASA spacesuit maker that specializes in advanced fabrics and engineered inflatables, Kasdin said, adding that an updated iteration of the photobioreactor is due for installation later this quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proterro has reached its Q1 sugar-production pilot milestones,\u201d CEO Kef Kasdin reported at the recent Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, in Washington, D.C. \u201cIn four months of continuous operation at our pilot plant in Orlando, Florida, our robust photobioreactors \u2013 key elements in our patented sugar-making process \u2013 yielded results verifying that our process is scalable.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[6918,4281,3026],"class_list":["post-20212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ilc-dover","supplier-proterro-inc","supplier-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=20212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}