Biorefining

Sustainable Process Technologies for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals

Harris Group's biorefining unit provides full-service engineering and consulting services in the production of energy and chemicals from renewable feedstocks through sustainable technologies. Our experience encompasses developing biomass processes that convert industrial, agricultural and municipal feedstocks into ethanol, biodiesel, biogas (methane), commodity chemicals, and other saleable products and byproducts.

Harris Group has worked alongside industry innovators, national laboratories and our customers to deliver process and design improvements for a variety of applications. Our goal is to make end products like ethanol, biodiesel and biogas highly competitive with fossil fuels and other comparable products.

Harris Group Inc. provides strategic support from feasibility through plant start-up with a core service of engineering and plant design. Specialty services include process conceptualization and development, research management and coordination, basic and detailed engineering, owner's engineering, due diligence and independent engineering, feasibility evaluation, process improvement and control systems integration.

*To learn how Harris Group integrates the critical components of alternate fuels projects, please view the PDF file "Turning Dreams Into Reality," found below.

*A recent article in Ethanol Producer Magazine highlights the risks and rewards of a future ethanol producer using rice straw as a feedstock. The company is Colusa Biomass, for whom Harris Group conducted a three month preliminary engineering study. For the full story, reprinted with permission, please follow the Ethanol Producer Magazine Reprint link below.

*Program Management Services
Program management is the ability to lead the coordinated and efficient execution of all phases of a project, from the concept stage, through to commercial operation. This incorporates many of the duties led by traditional organizations with large internal project engineering resources. For a more detailed description of Program Management, please click here.

Biorefining White Papers
Ethanol Producer Magazine Reprint
Turning Dreams Into Reality
Alternative Fuel Plant Optimization - Part 1
Alternative Fuel Plant Optimization - Part 2

 

Feedstocks:

Corn and Other Grains
Wheat Straw
Corn Stover
Sugar Cane
Municipal Sludge
Industrial Sludge
Food and Beverage Waste
Seed Oil
Municipal Solid Waste
Manure
Rice Straw
Stillage
Switchgrass
Wood Waste
Distiller's Grains (also called DDG's)

Products and Co-products:

Ethanol
Biogas (methane)
Biodiesel
Electric Power
Citric Acid
Animal Feed
Nutra-ingredients
Carbon Dioxide
Fiber

Process conceptualization
Feasibility studies
Business plans
Research management and coordination
Owner's engineering
Due diligence consulting
Process development
Process improvement
Process troubleshooting
Basic & detail design
Control systems integration
Construction oversight engineering
Start-up assistance

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Bob Harris
Founder/Chairman
206.494.9401
robert.harris@harrisgroup.com

Doug Dudgeon
Manager
206-494-9519
doug.dudgeon@harrisgroup.com

John Jobe
Director, Capital Projects
800.488.7410
john.jobe@harrisgroup.com