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    POET-DSM starts cellulosic ethanol plant

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    The biofuels world has been been abuzzed recently with the grand opening of POET-DSM’s cellulosic ethanol plant, dubbed Project Liberty, which is considered the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US to use corn waste as a feedstock. The…

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    Renewable Chemical Sustainability Survey

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    Hello from China! I am attending the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference (CPCIC) this week in Tianjin and will give a short presentation about bio-based chemicals commercialization as well as moderate a panel of speakers on September 12.  Unfortunately,…

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    Liquid by-products slow biofuels process – PNNL

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    Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE-PNNL) discovered that water in the biofuel conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions. The study examines the conversion of bio-oil, produced from biomass…

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    Siluria bags $30m funding from Saudi Aramco

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    Siluria Technologies closed a $30 million Series D financing round led by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the venture investment subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. With this initial Series D financing, Siluria has raised just under $100 million since its inception. Siluria is…

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    CO2 to Malic Acid by Industrial Microbes

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    I received this press release in May but unfortunately I was not able to post it until now. San Francisco, California-based Industrial Microbes announced that the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) of Alberta, Canada has selected the company…

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    New catalyst converts CO2 to fuel

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    Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have synthesized a catalyst that improves their system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas, a precursor of gasoline and other energy-rich products, bringing the process closer to commercial viability. Amin Salehi-Khojin,…

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    HallStar acquires Florasolvs® natural esters

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    The HallStar Company, a Chicago-based specialty chemistry company, has acquired the Florasolvs® natural esters product line of specialty ingredients from FloraTech, a global provider of botanically-derived ingredients for personal care products. The acquisition includes the FloraTech trade names and proprietary manufacturing…


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