Archive for 2020

Biobased Solvents and Molecules from Renewable Feedstocks: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis’s Hybrid Bio-Thermocatalytic Process

Biobased Solvents and Molecules from Renewable Feedstocks: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis’s Hybrid Bio-Thermocatalytic Process

February 12, 2020 |

Visolis uses synthetic biology and fermentation and catalysis to produce a variety of things at 20-50% lower cost, but how? Deepak Dugar, President and Founder of Visolis shared this illuminating presentation how their platform molecules and applications using raw materials like sugars, syngas and biomass can meet a need in billion-dollar markets like green solvents, […]

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Bringing Algal Biofuel Production to Scale: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biocrude Production in Advanced Photobioreactor-Based Biorefinery

Bringing Algal Biofuel Production to Scale: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biocrude Production in Advanced Photobioreactor-Based Biorefinery

February 12, 2020 |

Everyone wants more productive algal strains – but how do you get them? Can you advance the technology enough to get economical, large-scale algal biofuel production? Ron Chance and Paul Roessler, both of Algenol Biotech, shared this illuminating presentation at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) 2019 Project Peer Review on how […]

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Clariant expands activated bleaching earths production capacity in Spain to supply EMEA edible oil and biofuel markets

Clariant expands activated bleaching earths production capacity in Spain to supply EMEA edible oil and biofuel markets

February 11, 2020 |

In Spain, Clariant continues to boost the supply of high-quality activated bleaching earths to the edible oil and biofuel markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with additional capacity now on stream in Yuncos, Spain, and an extended portfolio of advanced purification products for local customers. Rising interest in biofuel usage, throughout the EU, […]

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Novozymes launches Innova Fit non-GM yeast for ethanol production

Novozymes launches Innova Fit non-GM yeast for ethanol production

February 11, 2020 |

In Texas, Novozymes announced the launch of its next yeast technology, Innova Fit. Fit is the most advanced non-GM yeast in the market – eliminating production constraints caused by conventional and basic yeasts. Fit provides ethanol plants with flexibility to achieve operational targets, while improving performance with enhanced reliability. The advanced Innova yeast allows producers […]

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Former American Biodiesel employee pleads guilty to unlawful discharge of industrial wastewater

Former American Biodiesel employee pleads guilty to unlawful discharge of industrial wastewater

February 11, 2020 |

In California, Jeremiah Young, 38, of El Dorado, pleaded guilty to unlawful discharge of industrial wastewater, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Young was an assistant operator for Community Fuels from 2014 to 2016. Community Fuels is registered in San Joaquin County by American Biodiesel Inc. and manufactured biodiesel fuel on property leased from the […]

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INEOS and UPM Biofuels sign long-term agreement for RSB-certificed renewable raw material supply

INEOS and UPM Biofuels sign long-term agreement for RSB-certificed renewable raw material supply

February 11, 2020 |

In Germany, INEOS and UPM Biofuels have announced a long-term agreement to supply a renewable raw material for new and innovative bio-attributed polymers to be produced at INEOS Köln, Germany. INEOS will use UPM BioVerno, a sustainable raw material from a renewable residue of wood pulp processing, to produce bio-attributed polyolefins. These new sustainable materials will be […]

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Green Plains to invest $400 million in business model revamp putting ethanol on backburner

Green Plains to invest $400 million in business model revamp putting ethanol on backburner

February 11, 2020 |

In Illinois, Reuters reports that Green Plains has decided to drastically reorganize its business model so that ethanol becomes a low margin byproduct following a three-year, $400 million investment plan meant to change its focus to high-protein animal feed. With the company’s ethanol revenue last year down nearly 20% on the year, the lowest since […]

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EPA administrator says recent court ruling to completely change SRE program

EPA administrator says recent court ruling to completely change SRE program

February 11, 2020 |

In Texas, Brownfield Ag News reports that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency told the Cattle Industry Convention last week that the recent Tenth Circuit District court ruling pushing decision to approve small refinery exemptions under the Renewable Fuel Standard back to the agency for review could completely change the SRE program. Although he […]

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Japanese researchers find cheaper, better way to produce erythritol

Japanese researchers find cheaper, better way to produce erythritol

February 11, 2020 |

In Japan, researchers at Tohoku University have found that using inedible waste glycerol as feedstock for erythritol rather than more expensive sugar and starch-based feedstocks can lower the production costs and provide another product for potential biorefineries to produce to diversify their outputs and revenue streams. Using glycerol was shown to have similar or even […]

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IRS frustrating would-be CCS projects that could help ethanol production

IRS frustrating would-be CCS projects that could help ethanol production

February 11, 2020 |

In Washington, the New York Times reports that the IRS is delaying implementation of some of the only climate-friendly legislation to be pushed through during the Trump administration which in turn is frustrating the ethanol industry. The IRS has held up rules about how companies investing in carbon capture could take advantage of a tax […]

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