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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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JUNE 21, 2010

The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking (JU) has published its 2010 Call for Proposals with a budget of €89.1 Specific topics for the different areas in the 2010 Call include: Transportation and Refuelling Infrastructure (€31.6M). million (US$110 million). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Ford is increasing the use of renewable and recyclable materials such as the soy and bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks on the 2010 Ford Taurus. The 2010 Ford Taurus is the eleventh Ford vehicle to feature bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks. liter V-6 2010 Ford Escape. Ford’s sustainable materials strategy.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First application is on the 2010 Ford Flex’s third-row interior storage bins. The wheat straw-reinforced resin is the BioCar Initiative’s first production-ready application. Seeing this go into production on the Ford Flex is a major accomplishment for the University of Waterloo and the BioCar Initiative. More than 1.5

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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

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JUNE 24, 2010

The bio-based polyurethane foam will be one of the new features in the new Ford Explorer—which will also deliver fuel economy at least 25% better than the current model—which goes in to production later this year. By year’s end, nearly 100% of Ford’s North American vehicle lineup will feature the more eco-friendly material.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

BASF Future Business GmbH and PURAC, subsidiaries of BASF SE and CSM nv, respectively, are cooperating for the joint production development of bio-based succinic acid. Furthermore, low cost succinic acid has high potential as a platform chemical and its downstream products.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Design of the microbial platform for production of biofuels and renewable commodity chemical compounds from macroalgae. An analysis prepared for the US Department of Energy (DOE) reports a macroalgae productivity of 59 dry metric tons/ha/year and an ideal ethanol yield from macroalgae of 0.254 weight (wt) ethanol/wt dry macroalgae.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica is developing and commercializing sustainable basic and intermediate chemicals made from renewable feedstocks including readily available sugars, biomass, and syngas. BDO is used to make spandex, automotive plastics, running shoes, and many other products; it has an approximately 2.8 per million Btu.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals, announced that it has received $30 million in its latest round of funding. The additional funds will be utilized to ready LS9’s lead products for commercial production and support additional development and growth programs.

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MAY 9, 2011

Royal DSM, a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and the French starch and starch derivatives company Roquette Frères today will build a commercial-scale plant for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The new commercial production facility in Italy will be producing fermentation-based bio-succinic acid.

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JULY 24, 2012

BDO, THF and GBL are large-volume industrial chemicals used in a wide range of applications including polymers, paints, adhesives and solvents. The global market for these products currently made from petrochemicals is $4 billion. BioAmber is a leading manufacturer of bio-succinic acid from renewable feedstock.

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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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JULY 11, 2011

The partnership combines Solvay’s leading position in specialty polymers and Avantium’s YXY technology for producing building blocks for green materials. The partnership is targeting new high-performance polyamides produced using renewable, bio-based feedstock. YXY can be implemented in existing chemical production assets.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Planned cellulosic biofuel production by 2015. US Commercial-scale production of cellulosic biofuels reached about 20,000 gallons in late 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Looking forward, important challenges remain for cellulosic biofuel production, the agency noted. Source: EIA.

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JUNE 16, 2011

a developer of integrated renewable products, plans to establish a collaboration with Wilmar International Limited, one of the largest global agribusiness groups. In June 2010, Wilmar entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Amyris, Inc., Earlier post.). (ERS)

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MARCH 25, 2010

and Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, have established a research collaboration to develop an integrated fermentation, recovery and purification system for producing BioIsoprene from renewable raw materials for use in tires. Worldwide production of high purity isoprene derived today from petroleum-based feedstocks totals about 1.7

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NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. —Wackett 2010. 2010.10.010.

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MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Renewable isobutanol company Gevo announced that the ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants and Subcommittee D02.J As previously announced, Alaska Airlines is now poised to fly the first commercial test flight using Gevo’s renewable ATJ-SPJ fuel. J Ballot”). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Gevo uses synthetic biology and chemical technology to convert renewable raw materials into isobutanol and renewable hydrocarbons that can be directly integrated on a “drop in” basis into existing fuel and chemical products. In November 2010, it entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Sasol Chemical Industries Ltd.,

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Like all plastics, the new material is a polymer—a large molecule comprising smaller, repeating units called monomers. The units are called omega-hydroxyfatty acids, and when strung together to form a polymer, they can produce a biologically friendly plastic. Gross (2010) Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Through the introduction of organic catalysis to synthetic polymer chemistry, scientists have developed a broadly applicable technology with demonstrations in a diverse range of polymerization techniques and monomer types. Waymouth (2010) Organocatalysis: Opportunities and Challenges for Polymer Synthesis. Hedrick and Robert M.

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DECEMBER 16, 2012

Biobased materials may provide excellent biodegradability due to the renewable nature of the source materials. Biobased materials may or may not make improvements in this area due to being produced from renewable sources. The above challenges contribute to the complex nature of the automotive industry and its products.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil. The products can be tuned to change with different market conditions. The gasoline-range alcohols can be high-octane gasoline additives.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles. As it takes about ten years to completely renew a fleet until 2050, our ambition is to offer ‘tank-to-wheel’ locally CO 2 -neutral new vehicles in the triad by the year 2039. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU).

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Strong reducing agents or other co-reactants may be added to tailor product distributions. The product includes the high octane aromatics toluene, xylene and benzene, and no heavy compounds (see below). Pentane and toluene are also produced in this alcohol production process. Results from conventional thermal depolymerization.

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JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Called the Hydrogen Materials—Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC), the program is funded by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at $3 million per year for three years ($9 million total), with the possibility of renewal.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

NEMO will focus on novel enzymes for hydrolysis and novel microorganisms for cellulosic ethanol production to identify the most eco-efficient and economic process options for cellulosic ethanol. cerevisiae strains used in ethanol production. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. million (US$8.4 million (US$8.4

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JULY 10, 2009

IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. IER’s Hydrothermal Reactor (HTR) technology depolymerizes lignite and biomass by using SCW to cut it directly into oils and upgraded cleaner coal products—i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. At the end of the reaction, the product is introduced into the refinery processes to produce a biofuel. The company plans to break ground on that facility during the first half of 2010.

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In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). Develop, build and test a production‐feasible electrically‐actuated dynamic skip fire cylinder deactivation valvetrain.

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JULY 2, 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, held this week in Washington DC, highlighted a range of developing pathways for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels for transportation. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MAY 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued four funding opportunities (FOAs) totaling up to $78 million to support early-stage bioenergy research and development under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). competitive production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. coli and S.

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