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In September, Gevo received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. The development of new second-generation biofeedstock conversion technology is critical to support growing energy needs and speed commercial availability.

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s Rialto Renewable Energy Center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. These catalysts can meet the stringent requirements for today’s products, including the production of feedstocks for downstream processing such as naphtha reforming, isomerization, or FCC and resid catalytic cracking. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Fraunhofer and The University of British Columbia UBC in Vancouver, Canada will partner to develop technologies for sustainable energy production and supply; on 21 December 2012, Fraunhofer and the Canadian university signed a framework agreement for a collaboration spanning several years.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. The baseline for comparison is based on a 2012 2.4 Their open access paper is published in the journal Energy. mpgge (equivalent to 7.6

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

At least 38 national governments have enacted blending mandates or targets to accelerate the expansion of biofuels production and consumption in the transportation sector. growth in the industry over the next decade, Pike expects production volumes to fall short of an estimated 71.8 Pike expects ethanol production to maintain its.

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JUNE 10, 2012

Although in the literature several works can be found wherein the plastics are directly hydrocracked, in our approach, a previous thermal cracking stage was included because several stages are required with real plastic wastes to avoid catalyst deactivation by the impurities present in the waste feed. —Escola et al. Resources.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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MAY 28, 2013

has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. This demonstrated process adds fuel diversity to Fulcrum’s products and complements its previously demonstrated MSW-to-ethanol process. Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

In continuous operation since May 2012, the plant is producing renewable algal oil that can be further refined to replace petroleum-derived diesel and jet fuel. The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Relative enzyme dose reduction with succeeding generations of Cellic product. The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 The first plants start commercial production of advanced biofuels this year. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel. Source: Novozymes.

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DIBANET aimes to advance the art in several key areas in diesel miscible diesel production. DIBANET focuses on the conversion, by non-biological means, of the lignocellulosic biomass residues and wastes of Europe and Latin America to platform chemicals, such as levulinic acid and furfural, and biofuels. Source: DIBANET.

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APRIL 15, 2011

The US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) is soliciting projects for up to $30 million over three to four years for research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy, and high-value biobased products. forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.), and urban wood wastes.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

Near-term: By 2017, verify at pilot scale at least one technology pathway for hydrocarbon biofuel production, demonstrating a mature modeled price of $3/gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) with GHG emissions reduction of 50% or more. By 2040, through R&D, support replacing 7% of petrochemicals with bioproducts. Mobilizing US biomass resources.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. million to 5 innovative manufacturing research and development projects.

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The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium ( SBRC ), affiliated with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, will test these findings in a project that could support biofuel crop production in arid countries, such as the UAE. Yields on seawater are similar to conventional oilseeds under ideal conditions. bigelovii.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

USDA funding will be used to construct a 55,000 square foot facility that will produce cellulosic ethanol by converting municipal solid waste and other industrial pulps into advanced biofuels, as well as using conventional renewable biofuel derived from seed corn waste. million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018. In July 2010, USDA, Airlines for America, Inc.

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JULY 30, 2012

Although bulk agricultural waste products such as cellulose and lignin are often targeted as feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels, even saturated hydrocarbon fuels which have previously been prepared from the dehydration products of cellulose-derived alcohols have a density of only 0.78 Meylemans, Roxanne L.

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Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Avjet Biotech will sell stock and use the funds raised to reimburse the university for its investment in patent applications, as well as allocate development capital to create a continuous production model for the biofuel refining system. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Shell invested in multiple rounds and formed a JV with Iogen, but terminated the JV in 2012. It also partnered with Virent on biomass catalytic conversion to produce renewable gasoline, and Cellana (HR BioPetroleum) on algae biofuel. Valero has a strong focus on drop-in fuel production either by bioconversion or catalysis.

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Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production ( earlier post ), and American Process Inc. GreenPower+ is a patent-pending API process to add an extraction module and ethanol production module (and now biobutanol) to a biomass boiler. Click to enlarge. Greenpower+.

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Joule, a pioneer in the production of liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and HeidelbergCement, a German multinational building material company, are partnering to explore application of Joule’s technology to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. This process accounts for ~50% of all emissions from cement production.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). In contrast to traditional pyrolysis, the main product can be used as a high-value liquid fuel. —US 9199889.

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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.

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A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou, Devin S. Chandler, Fernando L. Chang Dou, Wilian F.

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With this zero-waste car, the team wants to show that waste can be a valuable material with a multitude of applications. Luca, the world’s first Zero-Waste car. During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components. Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.

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The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. There is no ash production as all fixed carbon bonds are also depolymerized at plasma temperature. We believe it will lead to the production of a real sustainable alternative to jet kerosene.

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Although ethanol has since gone on to become the most abundant global biofuel, with production estimated to reach 73 billion gallons per year by 2030, turpentine is not not used as a transportation fuel—despite several advantages over ethanol, including an exceptional volumetric net heat of combustion and low volatility. 2012.01.062.

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Providing a possible new route to hydrogen-gas production, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new manganese-based thermochemical cycle with a highest operating temperature of 850?°C The result is the stoichiometric splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen without any by-product.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. Select projects in OPEN 2012 include: ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Fuels. electricity production (5 quadrillion.

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Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol. For now, we’ll focus on the production of biobutanol. million tons of dairy manure each year.

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JUNE 11, 2012

LCA models for biofuels include calculations of the GHG emissions—including CO 2 and N 2 O—from the manufacture of the fertilizers and pesticides used in crop production; from fossil fuel used in the transport of fertilizer to the farm, farming operations and transport of the crop to the biofuel refinery; and from the refining process.

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JULY 12, 2011

Deploy innovative and scalable GTL processes to convert natural gas into a room temperature, tank-ready, liquid transportation fuel that can be blended with existing supplies of gasoline and diesel or used as a stand-alone replacement product that is cleaner and more affordable. conversion premium. The convertible debt carries a 7.5%

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launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies , LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. The facility is projected to start up in 2012. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.).

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JULY 10, 2012

The synergistic activities of the ethanol-producing and electricity-producing bacteria resulted in substantial energy recoveries from ethanol production alone (ca. sulfurreducens removes waste fermentation byproducts that can inhibit ethanol production.) —Speers and Reguera (2012). sulfurreducens fermentatively.

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