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Sapphire Energy and Linde Group to commercialize hydrothermal treatment technology used to upgrade algae into crude oil

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In addition, they will jointly license and market the technology into an expanded list of industries, including algae, municipal solid waste, and farm waste, in order to upgrade other biomass sources into energy. Today, this Green Crude Farm is operating year-round and producing barrels of crude oil daily.

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USDA announces availability of $181M to support development of advanced biofuels projects

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Sapphire Energy’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M., million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility. Guarantee percentages range from 90% on loans of $0-125 million (under certain conditions) to 60% if the loan amount is $200 million up to and including $250 million. is an example of the use of this program.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

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a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. That plant was built in partnership with the US Department of Energy, Battelle Columbus Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Skokie, IL) - Upscaling of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste into CarbonSmart Monomers – DOE Funding: $1,890,001. LanzaTech, Inc.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Schlumberger Carbon Services , Columbus, Ohio. Battelle Memorial Institute , Columbus, Ohio. Arches geologic province (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio) by building a geologic model and completing reservoir simulations necessary for large-scale CO 2 storage. Headwaters Clean Carbon Services , Lawrenceville, N.J.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees), and urban wood wastes. of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that were considered include: agricultural residues, energy crops (e.g., switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow), forest resources (e.g.,

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