The Secret Sauce: Industry Partnerships Key to Advancing Bio-Based Chemicals and Fuels Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers worked with industry partners to successfully develop chemicals and fuels from renewable and underutilized carbon sources. Since the dawn of the industrial age, petroleum-based chemicals and fuels have driven countless inventions and products used every day. Over the past decade, researchers at PNNL have developed valuable chemicals and fuels using underutilized and renewable carbon sources. PNNL researcher helped develop a process that converts ethanol to jet fuel. What is the key to PNNL's success? Expertise in thermal, chemical, and biological catalysis, and working closely with industry partners—early and often—to determine the critical science questions and achieve incremental advances at various scales. Partnering with Archer Daniels Midland, PNNL developed a catalyst to make propylene glycol, a common chemical found in common household products. With Genifuel Corporation, PNNL created a high-quality biocrude using wet plant and waste sources, compressing nature's oil-making timeline from eons to minutes. And with LanzaTech, PNNL created a catalytic process to create diesel and jet fuel blends out of ethanol captured from industrial gas emissions, leading to the first-ever transatlantic flight on the jet fuel blend by Virgin Atlantic Airlines. Learn more about PNNL's partnerships with industry. | 
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