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LanzaTech, IOC-DBT to produce omega-3 fatty acids
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LanzaTech together with a research team from the IOC-DBT Center for Advanced Bio-Energy Research (an entity co-funded by India’s Department of Biotechnology and Indian Oil Corporation Limited) have developed a process that recycles CO2 emissions into omega-3 rich fatty acids. Essential nutrients, omega-3 oils, cannot be synthesized by the human body, and instead must be…
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Biofuel, Biorefinery, Company initiatives, Energy, Feedstock, Government, Investments, News Roundup, PartnershipExpanding cellulosic ethanol production worldwide
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It felt like everybody was in a group hug when I attended a biofuel panel discussion at the recently-held World Bio Markets USA with POET-DSM, GranBio and Abengoa Bioenergy in attendance. Abengoa had its grand opening celebration last month with its new 25 mgpy cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas. The facility is expected to…
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ExxonMobil establishes biofuels research program
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I think it’s a biofuels news kind of day. ExxonMobil Corporation announced last month that it has established an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University. The ExxonMobil Biofuels Program will initially focus on two research projects with Iowa State. The studies are related to the fast pyrolysis of biomass – rapidly heating biomass…
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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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HSBC, Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech in partnership
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The UK’s largest bank, HSBC, is joining the collaboration between LanzaTech, Virgin Atlantic, GE and Boeing to convert waste gases captured from industrial steel production to jet fuel via fermentation and chemical conversions. In addition, Virgin Atlantic announced that the team intends to do a demonstration flight within the next year. LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic have been working…
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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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Stora Enso to build cellulosic sugar demo plant
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Another late news but I was in China at the time that this came out and I was not able to access my google emails and reader… Stora Enso said it is investing EUR 32 million (USD 43 million) in a demonstration and market development plant to be built at Raceland, Louisiana, USA, following its…