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Novozymes receives $2.5M award from DOE to improve advanced biofuels production

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million (2001-2005). Development of a Commercial-Ready Enzyme Application System for Ethanol: $12.3 The product enables cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 The product enables cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 million (2008-2012). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DOE to award $15M for direct air capture technologies

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Since 2001, DOE-FE’s Carbon Capture Program has been identifying and advancing technologies with the goal of removing CO 2 from point sources such as fossil fuel-based power plants and industrial processes or directly from the atmosphere.

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LanzaTech exploring lipids production as part of its CO2 to acetic acid plans; pathways to renewable fuels

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Another challenge is—assuming successful large scale commercialization is possible—what to do with all the resulting acetic acid. Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. that conversion wouldn’t actually happen in a LanzaTech bioreactor.

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Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

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million) for reduction of greenhouse emissions through greening biofuel production and carbon dioxide utilization, from pilot plant to commercialization, in Edmonton. The company currently operates a pilot facility and a commercial-scale plant in Quebec. The initial organizations receiving CCEMC funding are: Enerkem Inc. ,

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Study shows bamboo ethanol in China technically and economically feasible, cost-competitive with gasoline

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In its development of biofuel policy, China’s 10 th five-year plan (2001–2005) proposed a biofuel industry to utilize surplus grain stocks. Pretreatments were performed at temperatures of 170-190°C for 10–30 minutes, followed by enzymatic saccharification with a commercial enzyme cocktail at various loadings. million tons in 2008.

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CODA acquires EnergyCS

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EnergyCS had earlier developed one of the first commercial plug-in hybrid conversion kits for the Prius. Founded in 2001, EnergyCS creates, designs and builds monitoring and control systems for large-format, high voltage electrochemical storage systems. Earlier post.).

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GE Hydrocarbon Lean NOx Catalyst Technology Matches Performance of Urea-Based SCR Systems

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Through a joint development with GE, Tenneco Inc ( earlier post ) and Umicore ( earlier post ), researchers have demonstrated NO x conversions on an engine between 85-95% across a temperature window of 325-425 °C, using E85 as the reductant.

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