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DECEMBER 29, 2014

The Financial Times reports that Raízen, Shell’s joint venture in Brazil, will invest about R$2.5 The company is targeting eventual production of second-generation ethanol of some 1 billion liters (106 million gallons US) per year. All gasoline sold in Brazil contains 25% anhydrous ethanol content. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

billion liters (860k gallons US) of sugar-cane cellulosic ethanol under a long-term agreement with Brazil’s Raízen. The low-carbon fuel is expected to be produced by five plants that Raízen plans to build in Brazil, bringing its total portfolio of cellulosic ethanol facilities to nine. Shell has agreed to buy a total of 3.25

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APRIL 27, 2021

A recent update by The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) now includes carinata as a renewable fuel feedstock for hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with a similar greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint as waste and residuals, such as used cooking oil, for the same fuel type. Data: ICAO.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

GranBio, a 100% Brazilian industrial biotech company, has begun production at the first commercial-scale plant for second-generation (cellulosic) ethanol in the Southern Hemisphere. The Bioflex 1 unit, built in São Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, has an initial production capacity of 82 million liters (21.6 Brazil Cellulosic ethanol'

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NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Brazil’s Industrial Technology Core Foundation of Ceará (Nutec), an entity linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the State (Secitece), launched Biopeixe Machine, which converts 50% of fish viscera into fats for the production of oil which will, in turn, be converted into biodiesel.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

BASF is launching the pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to plastic waste. million tons of plastic waste in 2016. Leveraging blockchain technology, we can work together to ensure our products deliver back to the value chain and contribute to a circular economy.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Brazil-based GranBio announced a strategic alliance with NextChem, the subsidiary of Italian engineering giant Maire Tecnimont dedicated to the energy transition, to co-license its patented technology for the production of second-generation (2G) ethanol worldwide. —Paulo Nigro, CEO of GranBio.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Novozymes, an international enzymes and microorganisms company, has entered two new research partnerships in Brazil. A partnership with Cetrel, the largest provider of environmental solutions for the manufacturing industry in Latin America, is focused on the production of biogas from sugarcane bagasse using enzymes.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This target covers the emissions from its operations and the emissions from the use of all the energy products it sells. Crucially, it includes emissions from the oil and gas that others produce and Shell then sells as products to customers, making the target comprehensive. billion liters a year—around 3% of global production.

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JUNE 15, 2019

One of the main challenges of second-generation biofuel production is identifying enzymes produced by microorganisms for use in a cocktail of enzymes to catalyze biomass hydrolysis, in which the enzymes act together to break down the carbohydrates in sugarcane trash and bagasse, for example, and convert them into simple sugars for fermentation.

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MARCH 25, 2009

unit is testing a technology in Japan that generates hydrogen from the fermentation of bakery waste. Petrobras will use this technique to produce hydrogen fuel from the plentiful biomass available in Brazil. The Sapporo Holdings Ltd. meter [US$0.41 per m 3 , or about $4.88/kg] kg] within 10 years. MBAA TQ vol.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The auditing criteria require evidence of material stewardship, such as a holistic lifecycle analysis for the company’s own products and a comprehensive recycling strategy, as well as compliance with standards for transparency, overall management and corporate integrity. The decisive factor here is clean separation of aluminum residues.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

World ethanol and biodiesel production, 1975-2010. Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. The United States and Brazil remain the two largest producers of ethanol. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 1, 2014

ABBI brings together companies and institutions developing and using microorganisms and its derivatives to deliver renewable products for industries and consumers worldwide. ABBI also believes there is room for improvement in Brazil’s patent laws, particularly as they relate to biological products and processes.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

environmental program remains on track to meet its 2018 goals of reducing energy and water consumption as well as the share in waste, CO 2 and solvent emissions at all Volkswagen plants throughout the world by 25% compared with 2010 levels by 2018. In vehicle production, this is the stage that requires most water following the paintshop.).

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JULY 31, 2012

Under the enhanced collaboration, Total reaffirms its commitment to Amyris’ technology and dedicates its $82-million funding budget over the next three years exclusively for the deployment of Biofene, Amyris’ renewable farnesene, for production of renewable diesel and jet fuel. We are appreciative of Total’s ongoing support of Amyris.

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JUNE 2, 2011

The major retail and commercial fuels company will operate in Brazil. In Brazil it becomes the third largest fuels company. Shell is already one of the largest distributors of sustainable biofuels: now it is moving for the first time into production. Brazil leads the world in the use of biofuels for transport.

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APRIL 27, 2011

A GTL demonstration plant has successfully been commissioned at Petrobras’ Aracaju site in Brazil. The Brazil plant, contracted from CompactGTL in 2008, demonstrates a fully integrated small-scale GTL facility, at 200,000 scf/d capacity, incorporating: Gas pre-treatment. Waste heat recovery. Pre-reforming.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Isoprenoids constitute a large, diverse class of organic chemicals with current product applications in a wide range of industries, including specialty chemicals and fuels. Amyris operates laboratories and a pilot plant in California as well as an industrial-scale facility located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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APRIL 7, 2021

a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, announced that Shell has joined as an investor in the company to advance LanzaJet’s global growth, accelerate commercialization of its technology, and scale the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). LanzaJet, Inc.,

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5 tons/ha/year).

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Representation of DIBANET processes, products and linkages. An EU-funded research project is seeking to develop new technologies that will enable the sustainable production of diesel miscible biofuels (DMB) from cellulosic biomass wastes in Europe and Latin America. Source: Carbolea. Click to enlarge. million (US$5.5

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JULY 6, 2010

Brazil’s Petrobras will partner with BIOeCON, a Dutch company, on the development of a new process for enhanced conversion of lignocellulosic biomass such as sugarcane bagasse into chemicals that can be used to produce green plastics, or further transformed into next-generation advanced biofuels. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

In a Viewpoint published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Adão Montel of the Universidade Federal do Tocantins in Brazil suggests that the production of acetate from chitin may be a path to economically viable bioethanol. Acetate represents about 29% of the molecular mass of chitin.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We wanted to take advantage of Braskem’s development of a renewable-based polyethylene to create a product that uses bio fiber and a green polymer. This is our first green biocomposite to enter the marketplace and we are very excited to work with our customer base to bring this product to OEMs and consumers. RheTech, Inc.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

The plant utilizes only “second generation” (2G) biomass feedstocks for ethanol production—i.e.non-edible agricultural crop residues (such as stalks and leaves) that do not compete with food or feed grain. billion liters) of annual installed production capacity distributed among 15 commercial-scale plants in five countries.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Rio Tinto will be well positioned to benefit from this demand outlook and to provide North American manufacturers with the materials that are essential to their products. The project would progress through three distinct phases: construction (10 years), production (40–50 years), and reclamation (5–10 years).

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JULY 9, 2015

The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass. As the new aviation biofuel roadmap indicates, Japan is ready to accelerate development and use of sustainable aviation fuels by the 2020 Olympics.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris has demonstrated industrial-scale production using its proprietary yeast strains to ferment sugars into renewable fuels that meet petroleum fuel specifications. Achieving the desired compositions from plant oils is often energy intensive, expensive, can be wasteful, and, in some cases, requires use of hazardous chemicals.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million (US$34 million) before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate its ongoing transition from a research and development organization to a commercial product company.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Brazil’s Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) President Luciano Coutinho announced the launch of a new credit line to support projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climate change solutions. Waste with energy potential. Vegetal charcoal. Combating desertification.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Butanol and its derivatives are key intermediates in the production of paints, coatings, adhesives and inks, an $85 billion global market. The merged GBL will be a globally managed company focused on the production of C 4 chemicals and advanced fuels from renewable feedstocks, primarily from waste and by-product agricultural sources.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Launched at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities is intended to work with local and national governments, the private sector and civil society groups to promote energy efficient buildings, efficient water use, sustainable waste management and other activities.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

The United States, Brazil, Russia, and the Middle East accounted for an additional 48% of the increase. OPEC and non-OPEC countries (excluding the former Soviet Union) each accounted for almost 42% of global oil production in 2010, with the former Soviet Union responsible for 16.8%, up from 10.7% of total oil consumption in 2010.

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JUNE 16, 2017

University of British Columbia (UBC) engineers have used polymeric scrap tire fibers (STF) to develop a more resilient type of concrete that could be used for concrete structures such as buildings, roads, dams and bridges, while reducing landfill waste. and recycler Western Rubber Products Ltd, which processed the fibers. STF and 0.3%

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The parameters are adjustable, providing flexibility in the desired output of C 5 and C 6 sugars and lignin to be used in the production of ethanol or chemicals. Earlier post. Earlier post. Chemtex is working with local farmers and producer organizations to begin growing energy grasses for the facility. In June, Chemtex was awarded $3.9

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Brazil will grow domestic supplies by 30% and more than double export volume. Indonesia and Malaysia will more than double production of palm oil biodiesel, while Germany will remain the largest producer of biofuels in Europe, according to the analysis. Tammy Klein, Executive Director of the Global Biofuels Center and the study leader.

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