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AUGUST 11, 2009

Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010. Carbon conversion and sulfate reduction in this process is near 100%. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

The products in red would be produced by synthetic biocatalysts, while those in black—ethanol, acetic acid, and 2,3 BDO—can be produced by the LanzaTech native microorganisms. Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. Source: LanzaTech.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

A Navy ship has, for the first time, operated on a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) completed final-phase testing of a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel as part of the Navy’s MILSPEC qualification program. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Specifically, the team will explore recent advances in scalable thermochemical conversion technologies, which enable the production of advanced liquid biofuel and co-products on-site. There are many benefits to using beetle-killed wood for renewable fuel production. Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Fuels'

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JUNE 26, 2010

Sustainable tri-reforming uses CO 2 , renewable energy and CH 4 (or biogas) to yield syngas and, ultimately, synthetic fuels and commodity chemicals. In addition, the provision of hydrogen production, distribution and refuelling facilities will necessitate enormous investments for this completely new infrastructure base. Jiang et al.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

LanzaTech uses non-food renewable resources to produce ethanol and also 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels. Its crude steel production for 2010 was 33.7 billion in 2010. million tons. of consolidated revenue: US$476 million of US$28.1 —Dr Holmgren.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. —Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager for Renewable Energy & Chemicals at Honeywell’s UOP.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The findings offer one way to alleviate a growing demand for minor metals such as cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements that are used in “clean” energy products such as electric cars, solar cells, and electricity-generating windmills. This research was supported by the US Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Production was achieved at lab scale, with pilot development slated for early 2011. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

DuPont has made substantial investments in renewable fuels and has committed more than $200 million to the Nevada biorefinery, which will utilize corn stover. DuPont began developing an integrated solution for the commercial scale production of second generation ethanol from biomass in 2008.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018. In July 2010, USDA, Airlines for America, Inc.

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MARCH 20, 2012

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake has awarded a contract to Albemarle Corporation to complete the first biojet fuel production run based on bio n-butanol provided by Cobalt Technologies. Key to the cost-effectiveness of ATJ is reducing the production cost of the alcohol, as well as of the ATJ process itself.

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JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Joule’s SolarFuels meet today’s vehicle fuel specifications and infrastructure; the company expects to achieve widespread production at the energy equivalent of less than $50 per barrel.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

The strategy of direct use of the lignocellulosic biomass for the large-scale production of 5-HMF and its derivatives would be ideal. Moreover, it points out obstacles described in the studies presented and discusses perspectives in the application of ionic liquids to the conversion of biomass-derived carbohydrates. Małgorzata E.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) by heterogeneous catalysts without using external hydrogen. Qing-Xiang Guo (2010) Conversion of Levulinic Acid and Formic Acid into ?-Valerolactone

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JUNE 7, 2013

Overview of the Cobalt/Navy pathway for converting butanol to renewable jet fuel (alcohol-to-jet, ATJ). The project, which will convert biomass into sugars for fermentation into butanol with subsequent conversion of that intermediate into JP5 jet fuel, is one of four biorefinery projects funded recently by the DOE. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) 2010) “Binary Mixtures of Branched and Aromatic Pure Component Fuels as Surrogates for Future Diesel Fuels,” SAE Int.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Biofuel ISOCONVERSION Process comprises: ARA’s Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) process for the conversion of plant oils into a high quality crude oil intermediate. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. The final products are all fungible and nearly identical to petroleum-derived fuels. a CB&I Company.

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MARCH 14, 2010

The platinum-rhenium catalyst showed the highest conversion, along with high selectivity for C 18. The products have a high cetane number (above 98), compared to a petroleum diesel cetane number of around 50. This was run with a jatropha-catalyst weight ratio of 1; practical commercial production would require a higher ratio (i.e.,

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JANUARY 29, 2013

announced that Wuhan Kaidi, which purchased a Westinghouse Plasma gasifier design, and plasma torch systems, from Alter NRG in 2010, has successfully completed the commissioning of the unit at its demonstration facility in Wuhan, China. Alter NRG Corp. Under the contract, Alter NRG has access to operational data from the Kaidi facility.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Integrated conceptual lignocellulosic biorefinery for the production of renewable chemicals and liquid fuels. The process is an extension of early work by Huber and James Dumesic that first presented a catalytic process for the conversion of biomass-derived carbohydrates to liquid alkanes (C 7 –C 15 ). Source: Xing et al.

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billion into bio-based materials and chemicals (BBMC) startups since 2010, reflecting the drive for sustainability, performance, and alternatives to petroleum feedstocks. The top five VC investments—Zymergen, Gingko Bioworks, Twist Bioscience, Elevance Renewable Science and Bolt Threads—reveal an emphasis on automating synbio.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Lifecycle GHG emissions of renewable gasoline from the IH 2 process (GTI RG) compared to petroleum gasoline and diesel. High-quality renewable gasoline and diesel products are produced. Fast Pyrolysis Oil IH 2 product. Compatibility with crude oil or refinery products. Source: GTI. Click to enlarge. Heating value.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

This process uses no fossil fuels, and every step is biologically-friendly, from fatty acids in plant oils through the end product, which is a versatile, 100 percent biodegradable plastic. Gross (2010) Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils. —Richard Gross. Wenhua Lu, Jon E.

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MARCH 27, 2010

Air Products has signed a contract with SK Energy to construct a hydrogen fueling station for a novel energy project to be based in World Cup Park in Seoul, South Korea. The hydrogen fueling station to be onstream in July 2010 will supply hydrogen produced solely from landfill gas to fuel a fleet of vehicles. million barrels per day.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Joule, a bioengineering startup, is developing its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. The plant will be operational within the first half of 2010. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Researchers at TU Delft (The Netherlands) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) have developed a new concept to increase the efficiency of the catalytic cracking of unsaturated vegetable oil to greatly increase the production of gasoline and light olefins (propene and butenes). A paper on their work is published in the journal ChemSusChem.

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MAY 7, 2009

The budget picture for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. FY 2010 Budget requests are in green, the FY 2009 additional appropriation (Recovery Act funding) is in red. President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 $26.4 However, the FY 2010 budget complements the $38.7 Click to enlarge. billion for DOE.

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MAY 4, 2010

Reaction pathway for conversion of GVL to liquid transportation fuels. In a new paper, published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry , Dumesic and colleagues focused on the production of alkenes in the range of C 18 –C 27 from the oligomerization of C 9 alkenes produced from biomass-derived GVL. 2010, doi: 10.1039/c001899f.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. billion gallons of ethanol.

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Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. The search for a commercially viable process for renewable isoprene is not new.

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JULY 16, 2010

A new plant being built by Dynamic Fuels —a joint venture between Syntroleum Corporation and Tyson Foods for the production of synthetic fuels from animal fats and greases ( earlier post )— is mechanically complete , and work is now underway to prepare for the start of operations.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Reaction pathways for conversion of GVL to butenes and CO 2 , and the integrated conversion of GVL to both a liquid stream of alkenes for use in transportation fuels and a gaseous stream rich in CO 2 that is appropriate for further processing options. Credit: Bond et al., Click to enlarge. Bond et al.

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