The US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has ordered an Avantium Flowrence™ parallel fixed bed reactor system to accelerate its catalyst research for infrastructure compatible biofuels and bioproducts. The new system will be housed in the Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory (BSEL). BSEL is a multipurpose research and development facility that includes operating space for all activities required to advance the science and engineering of processes for bio-based product manufacture.

The building is located on the campus of Washington State University Tri-Cities Campus in Richland, Washington, approximately one mile south of the main campus of PNNL.

Tom van Aken, Chief Executive Officer of Avantium: "The sale of Flowrence platforms to a world leading research center such as PNNL is a recognition of the value of Avantium’s proprietary high-throughput R&D technology. We are proud to provide our unique Flowrence technology to PNNL to help increase PNNL’s R&D productivity significantly with our methodology."