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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). UT President Joe DiPietro called the CRC and its work the next step in the advancement of a biobased economy.

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Phase 1 of DOE-funded ABBA Integrated Biorefinery project begins; renewable jet, gasoline, diesel and nanocellulose

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The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO’s site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a $3.7-million —Kevin Weiss, CEO of Byogy Renewables. million award from the Department of Energy. Earlier post.).

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Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

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The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel. The company is creating prototypes for modular waste conversion systems that customers can place onsite. He is now a research professor at the University of Tennessee, while also working with the startup.

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ClearFuels to Develop Co-Located Commercial-Scale Biorefinery for Renewable Jet or Diesel Production in Tennessee

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have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel. The renewable energy facility will be co-located with Hughes Hardwood’s wood component products manufacturing facility in Collinwood, Tennessee.

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