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AUGUST 19, 2011

has signed a multi-year supply agreement for several hundred tons of Amyris renewable squalane with Nikko Chemicals Co., Amyris squalane, which is produced from Biofene, Amyris’ renewable farnesene, is renewably sourced from sugarcane of high purity and has excellent stability. Amyris, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

International oil and gas major Total and renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. signed agreements to expand their current R&D partnership ( earlier post ) and to form a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize a range of renewable fuels and products. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

a renewable hydrocarbons company, announced that it has completed multiple runs of its fermentation process using its engineered yeast to produce Biofene, Amyris renewable farnesene, in 100,000 and 200,000 liter capacity fermentors. Amyris, Inc.,

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APRIL 23, 2014

has come to an agreement with Lufthansa under which the carrier will evaluate Gevo’s renewable jet fuel with the goal of approving the alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) for commercial aviation use. Renewable jet embodies the potential of cleaner, greener, and as we scale up, cost competitive drop-in fuels. Bio-isobutanol producer Gevo, Inc.

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MARCH 21, 2011

a distributor of industrial and automotive aftermarket products and lubricants, plan to form a joint venture for the production, marketing and distribution of finished renewable lubricants for the North American market. The joint venture would market and sell lubricants employing Amyris’s synthetic renewable base oils derived from Biofene.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Flint Hills Resources Renewables, LLC, a leading US ethanol producer, will become a customer of Edeniq, Inc., Edeniq’s Cellunator enables plants to mill corn and other plant materials into small, uniform pieces of feedstock that can be converted into sugars needed to produce biofuels.

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Anellotech’s core technology, Thermal Catalytic Biomass Conversion (Bio-TCat) was developed to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable, non-food biomass. 30,000 tonnes of carbon monoxide (CO) and other by-product gases will also be produced, for use in generating renewable electricity or used for chemical feedstock.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable kerosene produced from isobutanol to ASTM’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) task force (D02J006 Alcohol to Jet TF). Gevo’s renewable jet. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 16, 2009

In this role, Ryan will be responsible for business development in converting isobutanol into chemicals, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and fuel blendstocks. The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

has commissioned its third industrial-scale commercial facility—its first in the US—for the production of Biofene, its renewable farnesene. Amyris, Inc. The production facility is located in Decatur, Ill., at a facility owned by Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc., an affiliate of Tate & Lyle PLC. Paraíso Bioenergia S.A.,

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This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries. billion gallons of petroleum based diesel and 42.4MM tons/yr of avoided CO 2 emissions. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. This has the potential to displace over 4.2 Sepion Technologies.

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Gevo has adapted its patented Gevo Integrated Fermentation Technology (GIFT) to convert the cellulosic sugars from wood into renewable isobutanol, which is then converted into alcohol-to-jet-synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) blendstock.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

The process was able to convert aqueous carbohydrate streams derived from maple wood (produced using both hot water and acid hydrolysis) into gasoline-range products with carbon yields of up to 57% and an estimated octane number of 96.5. Thus, Li et al. ” Resources. Ning Li, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Taiying Zhang, Jian Shi, Charles E.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

and Salisbury Partners, LLC for Glycotech to provide chemical processing at Salisbury’s Leland, NC facility to convert Amyris’s Biofene, or renewable farnesene, into finished products for a wide range of applications. Amyris modifies farnesene to become Amyris renewable diesel. Amyris, Inc.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Farnesene is an isoprenoid molecule that forms the basis for a wide range of products varying from specialty chemical applications to transportation fuels such as diesel. Amyris modifies farnesene to become Amyris renewable diesel. This is Amyris’s fourth farnesene production agreement. an affiliate of Tate & Lyle PLC.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

a renewable hydrocarbons company, has entered into an agreement with Givaudan, the Swiss global leader in the fragrances and flavors industry. Amyris, Inc., Under the agreement, Givaudan will develop a derivative of Biofene to be used as a building block for one of the most important proprietary fragrance ingredients in Givaudan’s palette.

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MARCH 10, 2015

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased Gevo’s renewable Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) ( earlier post ) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. The biorefinery, where Gevo also produces bio-paraxylene and bio-isooctane, is operated in conjunction with South Hampton Resources.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Renewable hydrocarbons company Amyris, Inc. a renewable energy company producing sugar, ethanol and electricity headquartered in São Paulo State, Brazil. has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Paraíso Bioenergia S.A., The new production facility will be designed to process juice from up to one million tons of cane annually.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Lipids, in turn, are a proven pathway to jet, diesel and gasoline. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e., Earlier post.). Bloch and Feodor Lynen were awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their later discoveries linking acetyl-CoA and fatty acid metabolism.).

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Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. Chevron has filed applications for two patents on processes to convert lignin to a hydrocarbon feedstock via hydroprocessing; both applications were published on 3 September 2009. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 4, 2015

announced a development in its fermentation technology that will allow it to produce isobutanol from cellulosic feedstocks such as wood waste; the isobutanol can then be converted into Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel. There are significant economic and environmental benefits of renewable jet fuel, which makes it a great market for Gevo.

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JULY 8, 2011

The funds will be used to start the industrialization of the company’s process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, a gas which can be converted into liquid fuels and various polymers. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. Wackett is also lead investigator in a $2.2-million

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Like all plastics, the new material is a polymer—a large molecule comprising smaller, repeating units called monomers. The units are called omega-hydroxyfatty acids, and when strung together to form a polymer, they can produce a biologically friendly plastic. Gross (2010) Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils.

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Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach.

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The EERC has already demonstrated the production of 100% renewable jet fuel via a thermocatalytic cracking and separation process that can directly replace petroleum derived jet fuel through a project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Diesel Fuel. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JUNE 16, 2011

a developer of integrated renewable products, plans to establish a collaboration with Wilmar International Limited, one of the largest global agribusiness groups. Amyris uses its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant sugars into a variety of hydrocarbon molecules. Amyris, Inc., Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

announced that the US Army has successfully flown the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on a 50:50 blend of Gevo’s ATJ-8 (Alcohol-to-Jet)—a renewable, drop-in alternative fuel for JP8 derived from isobutanol. Bio-isobutanol company Gevo, Inc. Earlier post.). The US Air Force flew its first test flight using ATJ fuel in 2012.

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Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). University of North Dakota. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Global Algae Innovations.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Renewable isobutanol company Gevo announced that the ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants and Subcommittee D02.J As previously announced, Alaska Airlines is now poised to fly the first commercial test flight using Gevo’s renewable ATJ-SPJ fuel. J Ballot”). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2017

Amyris’s sugar cane-derived Biofene forms the basis for a wide range of products varying from specialty products such as cosmetics, perfumes, detergents and industrial lubricants, to transportation fuels such as diesel and jet fuel. Kuraray has overseas subsidiaries in 19 countries.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued an Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOAs) for a total of approximately $10 million. ( The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board DE-FOA-0000988 ).

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As it takes about ten years to completely renew a fleet until 2050, our ambition is to offer ‘tank-to-wheel’ locally CO 2 -neutral new vehicles in the triad by the year 2039. As of 2021, the eCitaro will come to the market with the next-generation battery and in the second half of 2020 with solid-state batteries (lithium-polymer batteries).

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Light olefins are key chemical building blocks that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. A renewable bio-isooctane would address renewable fuel content issues without perturbing the consumer.). GBE’s first, and most advanced program, is the production of bio-isobutene.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program for its project to demonstrate an integrated algal biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds, and will use dewatering and oil extraction technology to produce an intermediate that will then be processed into drop-in green fuels such as jet fuel and diesel. 25,000,000. 10,489,763.

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The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU). The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel).( Earlier post.). Earlier post.). DLA contract.

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