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an early stage provider of cellulosic biomass feedstock derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) for energy and bio-based chemical production, will install its demonstration vessel at Fiberight LLC’s cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Lawrenceville, Va. The company brought a pre-commercial plant in Blairstown, Iowa on line in May.

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. Other: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc.

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MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. The US generated 251 million tons of municipal solid wastes in 2006, of which plastics accounted for 11.7 Credit: ACS. million tons.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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JANUARY 20, 2012

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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MARCH 28, 2016

The Novus plant will process agricultural waste into fuel, natural gas, organic fertilizer and other bio-based products. Novus will use waste from onion and potato processing plants, dairy manure, seasonal plant by-products and other waste supplied by local growers and processors as the primary feedstock.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

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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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol. With the waste cooking oil technology, we can reduce the cost of asphalt binder to under $200 per ton, making road building much cheaper. Only in the last decade has the green asphalt industry started coming together.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

DuPont will produce the cellulosic ethanol at the company’s new biorefinery, currently under construction in Nevada, Iowa. The new Tide Cold Water will re-purpose more than 7,000 tons of agricultural waste a year. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2011

Project LIBERTY, sponsored by POET, LLC, will produce up to 25 million gallons of ethanol per year and will be located in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The project’s process uses enzymatic hydrolysis to convert waste into ethanol and will produce enough biogas to power both Project LIBERTY and POET’s adjacent grain-based ethanol plant.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Colorado State University will develop a novel, low-cost turbo-compression cooling system that utilizes the ultra-low-grade waste (less than 150°C) heat available in many industrial processes, the energy from which is not traditionally recovered. Iowa State University. Colorado State University. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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DECEMBER 6, 2014

Through the Critical Agricultural Materials program, Iowa State University of Science and Technology received $1 million for the development of new paint, coating, and adhesive products that are derived from acrylated glycerol, which is a co-product of the biodiesel industry. a producer of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil, received $8,655.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

New Holland will introduce the NH 2 hydrogen fuel cell-powered tractor in North America on 31 August at the 2010 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Farmers have the space to install alternative electricity generation systems, such as solar, wind, biomass or waste, and then store that power as hydrogen. New Holland’s NH 2 tractor.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Fiberight will open a small-scale plant in Lawrenceville, Virginia, this year, and a plant producing 6 million gallons per year in Blairstown, Iowa, in 2013. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel. The numbers would be even higher if biomass from forestry residues, household waste, and energy crops were included.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Additionally, the focus on waste feedstock can be reflected by its investments in the ill-fated Terrabon, which was focused on wet waste-to-gasoline. Additionally, ExxonMobil recently teamed up with Iowa State University to research pyrolysis. Less active oil majors in this space include ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This allows the nanoparticles to be submerged or dissolved into virtually any source of water, such as sea water, runoff water, river water, or waste water, instead of purified distilled water. Video of an early proof-of-concept prototype, using an encapsulated small solar device in a baggie of waste water from a pul and paper mill.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management.

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JULY 11, 2011

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. In a three-pronged approach, the Iowa team will develop an uncertainty quantification (UQ) procedure that will be implemented in MFIX for the investigation of uncertainty as it applies to various parameters in bubbling fluidized beds and riser flows. DOE Share: $300,000). DOE Share: $299,956).

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JANUARY 26, 2012

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

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APRIL 22, 2010

billion gallons of production capacity will come from transferring the technology to other forms of biomass such as wheat straw, switchgrass and municipal waste. Licensing that technology to other corn-based ethanol producers will lead to another 1.4 billion gallons of production capacity.

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JULY 29, 2015

Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. Neste produces NEXBTL renewable diesel from a variety of feedstocks including more than half from waste and residues.

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MARCH 11, 2010

At POET Biorefining - Corning (Iowa) most of the water used for cooling comes from the Corning Waste Water Treatment Plant. In 2009, POET plants used an average of three gallons of water per gallon of ethanol, which is an 80% decrease from when the company first produced ethanol in 1988. is recycled from a nearby quarry.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Valero Renewables also operates ethanol plants in Albert City, Charles City, Fort Dodge and Hartley, Iowa; Aurora, SD; Welcome, Minn.; These acquisitions expand the company’s ethanol production capacity to 1.1 billion gallons per year. and Albion, Neb.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: Create collaborations with the BOTTLE Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Skokie, IL) - Upscaling of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste into CarbonSmart Monomers – DOE Funding: $1,890,001.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Early last month, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced that USDA had issued a conditional commitment on a $105-million loan guarantee to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery in Nevada to produce renewable jet fuel from municipal solid waste. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

IPAT , a startup company based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods—significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.

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JULY 24, 2009

Mark Gordon of Iowa State University also helped with theory. Direct sources of gaseous HCl include garbage burning, incineration of municipal and medical wastes, burning of biomass, agricultural products and coal, and industrial processes, e.g., semiconductor and petroleum manufacturing.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). 2.0% (mostly woody biomass).

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While this increases efficiency for EVs (it takes less energy to maintain a warm temperature if the vehicle is preheated), preheating a gas vehicle has the opposite effect (idling means getting zero miles per gallon, can waste up to half a gallon of fuel per hour, and increases engine wear and tear).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In a challenge to the current prototype for ethanol production from waste cellulose, this team will focus on a recently emerging biotechnology for direct production of hydrocarbons from plant material. Shanks of Iowa State University, in collaboration with Basil J. Nikolau, and Tom Bobik of Iowa State, Govind S.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

ORegen is the largest organic rankine cycle single unit available in the market for gas turbines waste heat recovery. ORegen will produce 14 megawatts of electricity, using waste heat from the existing APL compressor station, avoiding associated CO 2 emissions and maximizing energy efficiency.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. The Mid-America Collaborative for Alternative Fuels Implementation project will focus diversifying transportation fuel options in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. The Pennsylvania Partnership for Promoting Natural Gas Vehicles project. Gas Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The technology enables the use of cheaper, high FFA content and inedible feedstocks, such as distillers corn oil from ethanol refining; waste vegetable oils; animal fats; and unrefined oils; without the costly purification and refining processes. The plants have a combined annual capacity of 550 million gallons of ethanol.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Iowa State will use metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to enhance the production of lipids and increase carbon dioxide assimilation and thermal tolerance within algae for the production of biofuels directly from sunlight and CO 2. (DOE WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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