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ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

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million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI.

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USDA closes on $105M loan guarantee to Fulcrum for biorefinery converting municipal waste to renewable jet fuel; first USDA loan for biojet

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to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery to produce jet fuel from municipal solid waste (MSW) via a proprietary two-stage thermochemical process. million grant by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to begin engineering and development on a plant to produce jet fuel. Fulcrum matched this DoD grant with $4.7

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USDA awards $5.6M to 220 biofuel producers

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million in grants to 220 producers (awards of less than $500 not listed) to support the production of advanced biofuels, and is awarding more than $4 million in additional grants that will advance the bioeconomy. million through the Sun Grant Program. a producer of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil, received $8,655.

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USDA approves conditional commitment for $25M guaranteed loan for new Fiberight biorefinery

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The plant will be constructed by Fiberight, LLC, based in Blairstown, Iowa. Fiberight’s Targeted Fuel Extraction (TFE) process recognizes that sold waste is neither homogeneous nor fully convertible to energy. Fiberight’s system bifurcates organic and inorganic wastes and converts them according to type. million.

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NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

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The US National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $200,000 RAPID Response grant to synthetic biology company Modular Genetics , Inc. The US National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $200,000 RAPID Response grant to synthetic biology company Modular Genetics , Inc.

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ISU Researchers Develop Novel Supercritical Process to Create High-Value Chemicals from Biomass

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Iowa State University (ISU) researchers and their colleagues at the Iowa Energy Center have developed a novel process for converting cellulose and related materials to high-value chemicals with low molecular weights. The Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. has filed for a patent of the technology.

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USDA approves conditional $232.5M loan guarantee commitment to ZeaChem cellulosic biorefinery

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Earlier post.). USDA’s Biorefinery Assistance Program was authorized by Congress under the 2008 Farm Bill.

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