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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. DuPont has made substantial investments in renewable fuels and has committed more than $200 million to the Nevada biorefinery, which will utilize corn stover. Earlier post.)

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Ryze Renewables partners with Phillips 66 to build two renewable diesel plants in Nevada; 11,000 BPD combined

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Ryze Renewables announced that construction is underway for two renewable diesel production facilities in Nevada. Ryze says that its hydrogenation process introduces the hydrogen in a more efficient manner than others, allowing the reactor temperatures to be uniform and controlled.

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Demand for lithium: Is Nevada’s modern mining industry the answer?

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Tyre Gray, President of the Nevada Mining Association, discusses Nevada’s role as a domestic lithium source for the US. Green energy has been a crucial topic and whenever it is discussed, conversations often turn towards the capabilities of lithium.

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New efficient biphasic catalytic process for conversion of biomass to dense jet-range fuels

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Now, researchers from the University of Nevada and Washington State University have developed a novel efficient biphasic tandem catalytic process (biTCP) for synthesizing cycloalkanes from renewable terpenoid biomass (such as 1,8-cineole). Cyclic hydrocarbons (i.e. cycloalkanes) can be used to make dense jet fuels with high thermal stability.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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ABTC inferred resources report finds Tonopah Flats may hold 15.8 million tons lithium carbonate equivalent

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American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) ( earlier post ) announced results of its third-party Qualified Person (QP)-audited Inferred Resource Report that details the analysis of its lithium deposit at its Tonopah Flats Lithium Project in Nevada. Mineral processing was carried out at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Ore Dressing Laboratory.

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Start-up Working with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. to Micro-Produce Ethanol With Discarded Beer Yeast

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E-Fuel, the developer of a home ethanol system—the Efuel100 MicroFueler —and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its brewing process. On average, Sierra Nevada resells 1.6

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