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VIDEO: Bioplastics and Bioeconomy in Italy
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Here is a cute infographic video from Novamont about bioplastics and bioeconomy in Italy. It shows the Italian case study in the promotion of a new model of economic development focused on the creation of integrated supply chains, the start-up of biorefineries and the diffusion of separate waste collection systems connected with the use of…
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VIDEO: Corn Grain Fiber to Cellulosic Ethanol Technology
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I am currently trying to catch up on a lot of emails and news and hoping to post some of them. In the meantime, this caught my attention about a fiber separation technology from ICM Inc. I don’t usually cover biofuels but I am trying to understand what are the challenges upstream in producing cellulosic…
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Winners
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This year’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Winners awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included Solazyme and Amyris. Solazyme won the 2014 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award for its microalgal fermentation-based tailored oils. Solazyme’s engineered microalgae can produce oils tailored to customers’ needs that can mimic or enhance properties of traditional vegetable oils (or animal…
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AkzoNobel in cyanobacteria-based chems
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AkzoNobel has partnered with cleantech company Photanol to develop a process via Photanol’s modified cyanobacteria technology that uses light to directly convert CO2 into chemicals. The aim is to produce “green” chemical building blocks that will eventually replace raw materials AkzoNobel currently obtains from fossil-based production. AkzoNobel’s chemicals are used extensively by the chemicals, detergent,…
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P&G to use DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol in Tide
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I don’t know much about liquid detergent formulation other than detergent is largely composed of surfactants so I am surprised that it also uses ethanol (or also called ethyl alcohol) as a solvent. Procter & Gamble said ethanol has long been a key ingredient in the Tide® formulation, allowing for stability of the detergent formula 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 20 million gallons/year plant (expandable to 25 mgpy) located in Emmetsburg, Iowa, has now officially…
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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 such as wood chips or grasses, into transportation fuels. Researchers used computer simulations to explore…