Biomass Conversion Division - Sugar

Concentrated sugar syrup is an important element in producing chemicals and fuel, in a cost effective manner.

Current process involves distilled diluted sugar from cane sugar, beets, and enzymatic hydrolysis.

AST has developed a proprietary process to produce concentrated sugar syrup from lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks which are not part of the nation's food supply and are readily available. This process reduces the production cost of sugar syrup, reduces the use of external energy, reduces the amount of water and expensive distillation setup.

Most of the feedstock used by our units come from paper mill and logging waste, which if they are processed efficiently, can produce great profit for both the paper mills as well as the biomass plants.

AST has proven technologies to produce sugars (the same sugar being used to produce-ethanol, butanol, hydrocarbon fuels, and other valuable chemicals) from paper mill sludge.

AST also has a patented process to break down wood chips to hemicelluloses, celluloses, and lignin. The advantage in this process is that all the fractions are collected separately and utilized separately to make this process profitable.