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MATHESON executes long-term hydrogen supply contract with Vertex for renewable diesel production

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MATHESON , the US affiliate of Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation ( NSHD ), has signed a long-term supply agreement to meet hydrogen requirements for a 75,000 bpd refinery in Mobile, Alabama owned by Vertex Energy.

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Amyris processes Ceres sweet sorghum into renewable diesel using soluble and cellulosic sugars

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into renewable diesel in a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded biorefinery project. The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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Coskata signs LOI for the engineering, procurement and construction of its 1st commercial facility

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for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the construction of its commercial cellulosic ethanol facility in Boligee, Alabama, that will be designed around the Coskata technology. Cellulosic ethanol company Coskata, Inc. has issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Fagen, Inc. Coskata Inc.

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Vitruivan crowd-sourcing funding for novel biofuel from sewage treatment bio-solids

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This process when combined with a related technology to produce alcohols from complex feedstock can realize an integrated biorefinery that sustainably and cost effectively converts low-value, high-volume feedstocks into a suite of bioproducts and biofuels.

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US DOE awards KiOR loan guarantee supporting a more than $1B biofuels project; drop-in fuels from wood biomass

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a developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program supporting a more than $1-billion biofuels project. The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel.

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Coskata touts two years of operation of its semi-commercial biomass and MSW to ethanol facility

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The facility has accumulated more than 15,000 run hours of operation and successfully converted wood biomass and municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol. Coskata, Inc., The Coskata process combines the flexibility of gasification with the efficiency of biological conversion of syngas into fuels or chemicals.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Alabama. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies. Project title. Federal share. Topic 1:Scale-Up of Bench Applications.

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