About Us

Symbios Technologies, LLC provides best-of-breed technologies for carbon-reducing conversion of waste and biomass to next-generation biofuels and energy. As a value-add service, Symbios provides turnkey solutions for advanced integrated biorefinery design and project development, specializing in an “industrial symbiosis” approach to convert landfill waste and gas, agricultural residues and waste, municipal and industrial waste streams, and forestry waste into biofuels, clean power, and green platform chemicals.

Symbios seeks an “industrial ecology” or “industrial symbiosis” approach in its project and technology development efforts, where one system’s waste becomes another system’s feedstock in innovative, co-located integrated biorefinery applications to produce combined heat and power, fuels, chemicals, fertilizers, clean water, and other products from biomass, especially waste, via both thermochemical and biochemical pathways. The Symbios team has significant experience in R&D, project development, biofuels plant finance and construction, and grants procurement. Our team includes a successful grant-writing and contracts management team, staff chemical engineers, and consulting academic experts.

Symbios performs research and technology development focused on waste biomass feedstock processing, biodiesel cold flow improvement and additives development, glycerin co-product processing, algae processing, combined extraction/transesterification, catalyst development, and fractionation of high-value products from biomass with numerous industry, government, national lab, and academic partners.

Symbios provides consulting engineering services associated with assessment of commercialization of co-products and incorporation of technical developments into integrated bio-refinery projects, as well as ongoing technoeconomic modeling of potential process development scenarios. We have existing proprietary spreadsheet-and Visual Basic-based technoeconomic modeling tools for various unit operations that we are working to connect into an overall integrated biorefinery design optimization tool. In addition, we will be assisting C2B2 institutions in developing the partnerships needed to perform the Phase III pilot trials for various pending projects if funded. Symbios works with C2B2 and industry collaborators to identify the right technologies, identify the right PIs and graduate students to develop those technologies, help fund the research, and then help commercialize those technologies in real integrated biorefineries and clean energy power plants via new C2B2-affiliated company startups. Symbios has more than 30 projects in our pipeline around the U.S. and abroad where C2B2-developed technologies will be deployed.