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Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

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This is also considerable in context of how much energy and effort is put into the food industry. The duo selected food waste as a microbial feedstock after interviewing 80 customers across waste-to-hydrogen industries while participating in DOE’s Energy I-Corps, a program that helps accelerate commercialization efforts at DOE laboratories.

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U Tennessee opens new research facilities at Center for Renewable Carbon

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The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has opened a comprehensive research facility to accommodate faculty and industry initiatives through the new Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC). Additional CRC research capabilities include life cycle analysis and a biomass fractionation reactor.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The project will build a new plant in Chattanooga to produce 30,000 metric tons per year of graphite targeted at the electric vehicle industry. Albemarle is finalizing the site selection for the lithium hydroxide conversion plant in the southeastern United States. Piedmont Lithium , Tennessee Lithium, $141,680,442.

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UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

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Here we report the direct conversion of switchgrass, a nonfood, renewable feedstock, to ethanol without conventional pretreatment of the biomass. Direct conversion of biomass to ethanol represents a new paradigm for consolidated bioprocessing, offering the potential for carbon neutral, cost-effective, sustainable fuel production.

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DuPont selects Murex as marketing partner for cellulosic ethanol from Nevada, Iowa plant

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DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex LLC to market the cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30-million-gallon-per-year plant in Nevada, Iowa. Producing stover-based ethanol used in many vehicles at the University of Tennessee. This optimized conversion process is being deployed in the facility in Nevada, Iowa.

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DOE awards Texas A&M AgriLife Research $2.2M to investigate ways to market bio waste from biofuel refineries

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The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass has been around for many years, but many of the waste products can not be commercialized due to the configuration of these biorefineries. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee. They will help with technical, economic and material analysis.

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USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

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University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. million to enable the regular production of biomass for economically viable conversion using existing refinery infrastructure.

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