In Washington, D.C., ethanol production dropped by 48,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 4.8%, to 947,000 b/d, equivalent to 39.77 million gallons daily and the lowest volume since September 2021, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 0.6% more than the same week last year and 4.7% above the five-year […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains Inc. announced that product and technology innovation efforts have led to the production of greater than 60% protein concentrations with yields as high as 4 pounds per bushel at its Wood River, Nebraska, biorefinery, using the patented Fluid Quip Technologies MSC system. The breakthrough was accomplished through a full-scale production changeover […]
In Oman, H2-Industries and Public Establishment For Industrial Estates – Madayan signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a waste-to-hydrogen plant in conjunction with PV solar power plants with base-load capacity in the Sultanate of Oman. The facility will initially convert up to one million tons of municipal solid waste each year. The proposed US […]
In Idaho, the development of new, more efficient electrochemical cells could provide a good option for carbon-free hydrogen and chemical production along with large-scale electricity generation and storage and Idaho National Laboratory scientists are overcoming several challenges, including how to make the cells more efficient and cost-effective, by using a simple process to bind materials […]
In Wisconsin, with the support of leadership from Dane County, Wisconsin, EnTech Solutions, a full-service clean energy solutions provider, partnered with Northern Biogas, a fully-funded renewable natural gas producer, to repurpose an anaerobic biodigester facility formerly producing electricity to now produce clean RNG using agricultural waste from four local dairy farms. Digesters are an integral […]
Imagine embedding a chip encapsulated in bioplastic in your hand that allows you to pay for things, open your door, and other daily tasks without fumbling for your phone, keys, or wallet anymore…that’s exactly what ‘biohackers’ are now doing. If that’s too off the wall for you, perhaps lab-grown caviar or lab-grown oysters are more […]
Like one of the longest-running, live-action American series on TV, Bonanza, there is a biofuels bonanza going on right now but this time in the shipping and bunkering sector. From horses and western trails to ships and biofuel trials, comes the latest news from Ocean Network Express on their latest successful third trial of biofuel […]
In Israel, Enzymit Inc., a syn-bio production platform company, closed a $5 million seed round to accelerate the development of its computational design platform based on enzymatic manufacturing and expand its product pipeline with the new investment. The company uses its computational design platform to engineer ‘new-to-nature’ enzymes for bio-production. These designer enzymes can replace […]
In India, The Hindu Business Line reports that Praj Industries Ltd. is in collaboration with the Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), and is developing a binder that will help blend ethanol with diesel, the company’s top official has said. According to The Hindu Business Line, Praj is collaborating with ARAI, setting up three […]
In Washington, D.C., algae are an exciting renewable feedstock for the future of sustainable fuels and products and one application, which the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office is exploring, is the potential to turn algae into jet fuel precursors and researchers have no developed a rapid, cost-effective method to monitor chemical signals that […]
