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VTT and partners to assess bio- and waste-based oils suitable for power plants and ships; BioFlex project

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In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. In theory, bio- or waste-based fuel oil could be identical to fossil fuel oil in chemical composition.

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Waste Management Makes Strategic Investment in Waste-to-Fuels Company Enerkem

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The Enerkem process has four steps: feedstock pre-treatment; gasification; syngas conditioning; and conversion. The closing of this new round of financing, which generated C$53.8 The closing of this new round of financing, which generated C$53.8 The syngas is converted to products using a sequential catalytic conversion process.

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DOE pulls grant funding from BlueFire Renewables cellulosic biofuels plant

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BlueFire said it would exhaust all options available to it in order to reverse the DOE’s decision. BlueFire also asserted that if it failed in reversing the DOE decision, it would devise a new strategy with respect to financing the Fulton Project. BlueFire Renewables, Inc., Earlier post.).

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot The proposed project will construct and operate a 1.2

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BlueFire Renewables Signs 15-Year Off-Take Agreement for Cellulosic Ethanol

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Also, it will move BlueFire closer to a debt financing agreement with the Department of Energy and US Department of Agriculture. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 million gallons of ethanol per year.

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Nemaska Lithium reports construction and planing on schedule at both mine site and electrochemical plant; agreement with LG Chem

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Our conversations with end users suggest the market for battery grade lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate remains very tight. Prior to the most recent project financing, about CAD80 million had already been invested in the Whabouchi site construction and preparation. Further to the recent completion of a CAD1.1-billion

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Novozymes introduces its latest enzyme technology for cellulosic biofuels; performs 1.5x better than predecessor

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The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 M&G Group is scheduled to open a facility in Crescentino, Italy, producing 13 million gallons of ethanol per year from wheat straw, energy crops, and other locally available feedstocks. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel.

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