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Pilot Plant Demonstrates the Potential to Co-Process Biomass Streams with Petroleum
It’s Saturday and I am still working on my Biomaterials newsletter (poor me!) but I just want to post this press release from the US DOE as I find this technology very interesting. Cut and paste story below: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), together with leading petroleum refining technologies supplier W.R. Grace, and leading … Continue reading
ExxonMobil establishes biofuels research program
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 … Continue reading
Liquid by-products slow biofuels process – PNNL
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 … Continue reading
BIOME VIDEO: Lignin as bioplastic feedstock
Hello from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Initiative’s (ACSGCI) 18th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering conference. I will be listening this morning to a presentation about lignin bio-oil as styrene alternative from researchers at the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, and I saw this video from UK-based Biome Bioplastics about their lignin … Continue reading