Biofuel
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US agencies invest in biorefineries
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As part of a 2011 Presidential directive, the Departments of Navy, Energy, and Agriculture announced today that three companies have been awarded contracts to construct and commission biorefineries capable of producing “drop-in” biofuels to meet the transportation needs of the…
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IncBio to supply biodiesel plant in Greece
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IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company, who specializes in state of the art fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has signed a contract with SPA Renewables S.A, to supply an 8,000 ton/year biodiesel plant, to be installed in Corinth, Greece.This plant…
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Pacific Ethanol Sells CO2
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Pacific Ethanol, Inc. announced its agreement with Kodiak Carbonic, LLC to sell CO2 from the Pacific Ethanol Columbia plant located in Boardman, Oregon. Kodiak plans to construct a liquefaction and dry ice processing plant adjacent to the Columbia facility and…
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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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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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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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Dyadic collaborates with CIMV
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Dyadic International has signed a collaboration agreement to commercialize second generation biofuel and bio-based chemical technology with Compagnie Industrielle de la Matière Végétale (“CIMV”). CIMV’s patented approach of separating the three main components of plant material allows both production of…