Technology Holding, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase II: A17A-T011
Technology Holding, LLC — STTR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $505,958
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase II
- Topic
- A17A-T011
- Solicitation
- 17.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- UT
- Period
- 2018-09-28 → 2019-09-28
Description
The strain engineering effort will constitute development of a synthetic biology toolkit applicable for food waste conversion in clostridium. The engineered strain will enable high efficiency conversion of army food waste to fuel. The proposed project will scale up a clostridium based fermentation method to produce fuel from food waste. A batch reactor will be optimized. Overall techno-economic feasibility analysis will be performed to compare costs of manufacturing with traditional chemical processes. The proposed innovation will have commercial civilian applications. A dual commercialization strategy will be pursued.