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DOE awarding $11M to advance renewable carbon fiber production from biomass

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million for two projects that aim to advance the production of cost-competitive, high-performance carbon fiber material from renewable, non-food-based feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and woody biomass. Southern Research Institute (SRI) of Birmingham, Alabama will receive up to $5.9

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Amyris processes Ceres sweet sorghum into renewable diesel using soluble and cellulosic sugars

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into renewable diesel in a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded biorefinery project. The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Alabama. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. UHV Technologies.

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Coskata signs LOI for the engineering, procurement and construction of its 1st commercial facility

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for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the construction of its commercial cellulosic ethanol facility in Boligee, Alabama, that will be designed around the Coskata technology. Cellulosic ethanol company Coskata, Inc. has issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Fagen, Inc. Coskata Inc.

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Coskata touts two years of operation of its semi-commercial biomass and MSW to ethanol facility

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The Coskata process combines the flexibility of gasification with the efficiency of biological conversion of syngas into fuels or chemicals. The facility has accumulated more than 15,000 run hours of operation and successfully converted wood biomass and municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.

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US DOE awards KiOR loan guarantee supporting a more than $1B biofuels project; drop-in fuels from wood biomass

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a developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program supporting a more than $1-billion biofuels project. KiOR, Inc., Earlier post.)

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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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. Decision support and policy analysis tools.

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