Company Profile

Exelus Inc
Profile last edited on: 11/2/16      CAGE: 3N6E8      UEI: F3X4LHJZYT97

Business Identifier: Chemical “cleaner-by-design” technolog
Year Founded
2000
First Award
2000
Latest Award
2019
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

264 Passaic Avenue
Fairfield, NJ 07004
   (862) 210-8924
   info@exelusinc.com
   www.exelusinc.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 11
County: Essex

Public Profile

Exelus Inc develops and licenses “Cleaner-by-Design” chemical technologies to produce a vast array of products and materials used in consumer products, transportation and food processing. The company’s green technologies are based on proprietary engineered-catalytic systems that can achieve a quantum performance jump over conventional catalysts. Exelus is working to permanently reduce the dependence on foreign oil and hopes that within five years its contribution will be a biofuel made from switchgrass, 7 foot stalks that grow wild in North American prairies and resemble weeds. Scientists for Switchgrass research haven’t been able to find a yeast or catalyst to break it down fast enough; however they have claimed to have solved that problem using a chemical reaction that converts switchgrass into fuel quickly. A full-size reactor can churn out 4,000 gallons a day. For the conversion process to remain efficient, plants would need to be no more than 15 miles away from switchgrass crops. Exelus’s estimates that the facilities would cost about $45 million to build, a fraction of what it would cost for a typical ethanol plant or oil refinery. Exelus focuses on research and development, then licenses its work to companies with the capital to build plants. Exelus researchers say their process can churn out 140 gallons of fuel with one ton of swi

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
10-14
Revenue Range
1M-1.5M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
1-4

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2019 1 DOE $150,000
Project Title: Mixed Metal Oxide Catalysts for the Production of Aromatic Derivatives
2013 1 DOE $150,000
Project Title: Safe and Renewable Plasticizers from Cellulose
2012 1 DOE $150,000
Project Title: Structured Catalyst for Efficient Production of Renewable Jet Fuel
2011 2 DOE $1,100,000
Project Title: Low temperature oxidation of alkanes to alcohols
2011 1 USDA $100,000
Project Title: New Drop-in Biofuel to Meet Renewable Fuel Standards

Key People / Management

  Mitrajit Mukherjee -- President

  Amit Goyal

  Narendra Joshi

  James P Nehlsen

  Richard Porcelli -- Senior Business Advisor

  Sankaran Sundaresan -- Director of Research & Development

  Vamsi Vadhri