RE: PLET More Advanced than LEC?...M101, I'm not a biochemist, but looking at other producers of
'high quality' lignin products, I think that there are other accepted pretreatments and fermentation of the pulp prior to extracting the lignin & hemi-cellulose & commercial grade cellulose.
PLET seems to be well ahead of Lignol and its processes are patented and they've done all the necessary studies and seem on their way to getting their technology commercialized via both their own biorefinery and licensing agreements.
The link below is a must read IMO:
https://issuu.com/illinoisvoice/docs/bfa.committed.to.innovation.5.1.11
PLET is planning to roll out it's technology across the US and globally.
It boasts extraction of high purity lignin in the 83% range with processes that can raise the purity to between 95% to 99%.
It's projecting production from their commercial biorefinery when complete, of 15 million gallons cellulosic ethanol with a conservative price of $1.83 per gallon, 93000 tons of High Quality Lignin, and 15 megawatts of electricity generated and sold into the grid.
After reading this, it looks as though Lignol has its work cut out in playing catch up. I was led to believe that LEC's technology was superior and no other company was as close to production as Lignol.
It now seems that isn't all true.
Besides PLET, there are others. Just google "high quality lignin" producers to find more.
Hope things work out for the best. Again, there is always room for competition, but being the first to market counts as well. atb