Mercurius
Biofuels
turning biomass into value...
Latest News
8/18/11
Mercurius publishes Summer 2011 edition of the Mercurius Times Read More
6/15/11
Mercurius Biofuels is mentioned in SAFN Report Read More
6/7/11
Mercurius Biofuels technology featured in Biorefinery Magazine Read More
4/22/11
Mercurius Biofuels featured at TriplePundit on Earth Day! Read More
Welcome to Mercurius!
Mercurius Biofuels was founded in 2008 and later incorporated into Mercurius Biorefining to commercialize an exclusively licensed novel bio-refinery process patented by the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota. The process uses a novel catalytic approach that produces fuels (diesel and jet) and green chemicals from cellulosic material including municipal wastes, agricultural, forestry and paper production residues or any source made up of cellulose or hemi-cellulose.
Fuels Development
Mercurius is developing transformative cellulosic diesel technology.
We are concurrently developing technology to produce a cellulosic jet fuel.
Why the Name Mercurius?
Who was Mercurius Ter Maximus and why was he chosen as a symbol to represent the goals of a company? He is a combination of the gods of writing and of magic in their respective Greek and Egyptian cultures. Thus, the Greek god of interpretive communication was combined with the Egyptian god of wisdom as a Roman god of astrology and alchemy. His divine influence over alchemy, which had the goal of turning a plentiful element (lead) into a precious rare element (gold), seemed to fit neatly into the goal of Mercurius Biofuels to commercialize an exclusively licensed process using a novel catalytic approach that produces diesel, jet fuel and green chemicals (gold) from cellulosic material including municipal wastes, agricultural and forestry production residues or any source that is made up of cellulose or hemi-cellulose (lead).