Rentech’s Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals Facility in Colorado Mechanically Complete
May 14, 2008 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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First Production Expected End of June 2008
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rentech, Inc. (AMEX:RTK) announced today that all systems required to start-up the Company’s Product Demonstration Unit (“PDU”) in Commerce City, Colorado are mechanically complete. Commissioning and start-up of the facility will commence over the next few days.
The PDU is designed to produce approximately 420 gallons per day of synthetic fuels and chemicals including ultra-clean diesel and aviation fuels. Initial production at the facility will be focused on producing jet fuel and specialty chemicals from natural gas. As gasification is added to the PDU, fuels and specialty chemicals could be produced from a wide variety of biomass and fossil resources.
The Company expects to produce syngas at the PDU in the next few days with the balance of the facility to be started-up sequentially over the coming weeks. First fuel production at the PDU is expected around the end of June upon the successful operation of all equipment and processes. Rentech’s PDU will be the only synthetic fuels facility operating in the United States.
D. Hunt Ramsbottom, President and CEO of Rentech, said, “Achieving mechanical completion at the PDU paves the way for the imminent production of clean synthetic fuels and chemicals at the site. We are excited about our potential opportunities with prospective customers, licensees and partners once we begin providing testing samples of our fuels and chemicals.”
About Rentech, Inc.
Rentech, Inc. (www.rentechinc.com), incorporated in 1981, provides clean energy solutions. The Company has developed and patented the Rentech Process which transforms under-utilized domestic energy resources into valuable and clean alternative fuels and chemicals. These energy resources include natural gas, biomass, municipal solid waste, petroleum coke and coal. Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation manufactures and sells fertilizer products including ammonia, urea ammonia nitrate, urea granule and urea solution to the corn-belt region.
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