Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
The project is slated to use advanced enzyme and microbial techniques to convert 10,000 tons of sugar beets harvested throughout the year into 285,000 gallons of advanced biofuel ethanol. Sugar beets have been grown in the area for more than 100 years, and were processed at a local Spreckels Sugar plant until it closed in 2008.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2010
Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. In 2008, UOP received a $1.5 Source: UOP.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2009
The first liquids were produced in October 2008, with improvements in operations over the past few months. Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., The demonstration plant has now operated over extended periods with the anticipated levels of reliability.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2009
On 3 December Amyris announced that it had entered into an agreement with the São Martinho Group to acquire a 40% stake in the Boa Vista mill and that together the parties would convert this mill to achieve the first production of Amyris products. million tons of sugarcane in the 2008-2009 crop. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Amyris presentation at Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing, 2008. Source: Amyris.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 3, 2009
The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.).
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