Company initiatives
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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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Bio-acrylic acid development milestones
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Hello blog readers. I just came back from China and will fly tomorrow to St. Charles, Illinois, to give a presentation at Roquette’s Green Chemistry & Fermentation symposium. I will be tweeting via @DGreenblogger on Sept. 16-17 under the hashtag…
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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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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,…