Services
Solutions for Scaling
Technologies
Our partnership provides hands-on support to validate technologies, reduce scale-up risk, and connect innovators with the commercial partners needed to bring solutions to market. Join a team dedicated to proving performance and preparing your innovation for real-world deployment.
Our Processes
How We Help Accelerate Your Tech
Our early-stage laboratory work includes:
- Development and testing support: Our laboratories at the RTI Pilot Xcelerator and the broader RTI campus are available for testing, sampling, analyzing, and troubleshooting early versions of your technology.
- Validation and de-risking: Our technical experts verify whether your technology actually works before you invest in the scale-up process.
- Evaluation: Reviewing technology concept and conducting a needs assessment to ensure fit with RTI Pilot Xcelerator.
- Design: Conceptualizing the architectural blueprint.
- Development: Implementing infrastructure for scaling and handling variables.
- Test Campaign: Coordinating experiments designed to validate technology.
- Reporting: Securing data, documenting, and reporting for technology production readiness.
RTI offers a range of commercialization services to advance your overall business along with your technology, including:
Market Feasibility Assessments
We compare the potential of your target markets by combining social, technological, environmental, and political intelligence with data-driven models and on-the-ground realities to deliver a detailed picture of the market, regulatory, and competitive landscape — along with tactical recommendations to guide your market entry strategy.
Technology Landscapes
Guided by your criteria, we use comparative frameworks, charts, and matrices to evaluate opportunities to support better decision-making. Expert interview summaries and profiles of leading organizations give you the actionable detail needed to move forward.
Technology and Partner Scouting
We provide a data-driven, independent perspective on your innovation challenges through expert intelligence on existing and emerging technical solutions. We map short- and long-term solutions and connect you with technology providers and value chain partners who have the specific capabilities to help solve your challenge.
Techno-Economic Analysis
We conduct rigorous analysis of your technology, processes, input costs, capital expense, and unit production costs, as well as comparison to established commercial benchmark technologies, leveraging longstanding expertise and advanced modeling tools like Aspen+.
Life Cycle Assessment
We have decades of experience in applying DOE’s life cycle assessment (LCA) procedures across different classes of technology (e.g., bioenergy production, carbon capture) and leverage standard LCA datasets (e.g., Ecoinvent) and software (e.g., OpenLCA) combined with secondary and primary research as needed to customize results.
Regulatory Assessment
We have decades of experience in regulatory development and analysis that can be applied to your unique situation to clarify and validate your regulatory strategy.
Why Work With Us
The RTI Pilot
Xcelerator Difference
Gain access to a team of engineers, business developers, and scientists who guide you through every step of the process. We help refine your technology to validate performance at engineering scale and under real-world conditions.
Our team provides strategic guidance and direction to help your innovation meet its growth goals. We advise on managing risks, making high-level decisions, and growing your business. This includes go-to-market consulting, funding guidance, workforce development, and operational assistance.
Our engineers help you demonstrate your technology at pilot prototype scale in our ready-made, technology-agnostic facility so you can quickly get up and running to demonstrate real-world performance.
We Specialize In
Industrial Decarbonization
Mitigating emissions from various sectors, including cement, chemical, paper, and petroleum industries.
Circular Economy
Repurposing recycling waste and materials into new products.
Critical Minerals
Extracting minerals from waste streams, end-of-life batteries, and industrial byproducts for reuse.
Bioprocessing
Transforming raw materials from agriculture, municipal, and textile waste into next-gen fuels.
Energy Production
Developing novel pathways to increase energy production and efficiency to meet the needs of increased global energy demand.Work With RTI
Scaling your technology can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. We are ready to take your technology to the next level. Are you?