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DOE BETO awards $10M to 7 advanced biofuels projects

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The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. BETO awards.

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Start-up commercializing NC State technology for drop-in biofuels; full commercial production targeted for 2016

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A parallel step to the fuel conversion is the separation of the by-product of hydrolysis, glycerol, from the sweet water. This mitigates transportation costs of both the feedstock and the produced fuel. Then the glycerol is combusted to provide energy for the entire process.