In Illinois, Envergent Technologies, a Honeywell company, announced today that it has been selected by Premium Renewable Energy of Malaysia, to perform the engineering design for a project that will use Envergent’s RTP Rapid Thermal Processing technology to convert palm biomass to renewable heat and electricity. The initial Premium RTP facility, to be initiated in […]
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In Sweden, Lund University research Nadia Skorupa Parachin has extracted enzymes from garden soil to convert xylose, the world’s second most common sugar, to ethanol. If successful, ethanol production could possibly increase by 20%. Ms Skorupa Parachin explains, “In order for carbohydrates in forestry, plant and waste products to be used for ethanol production, enzymes […]
In Washington, as BIO, the Advanced Biofuels Association and the Algal Biomass Organization joined forces to seek unity in the biofuels policy debate, a number of other voices were raised as the din over the ethanol blender tax credit (VEETC), loan guarantees, EPA legislation and more reached fever pitch. Among the voices in a crowd […]
In California, SynGest Inc. announced that it is sponsoring the Iowa State University Biomass Crop Production Workshop to be held on Thursday, March 17, 2011 in Creston, Iowa. Also in California, BlueFire Renewables announced that Joe Sparano has joined the company’s Board of Directors. As former President and, subsequently, Executive Advisor to the Chairman of […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, plummeted 1.90 percent to 87.38 as oil stocks and large caps were hammered over Saudi unrest. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) shed 3.14 percent to $35.45, while Valero (VLO) plunged 5.02 percent to $26.32. Among other equities, Algae.Tec (AEB.AX) jumped 7.50 percent […]
The fermenters are going in at ZeaChem’s demonstration of cellulosic fuels and chemicals at scale. Are the “five years away” days gone forever? And what’s up with these exotic 2000 gallon per acre yields? The Digest heads to Oregon for some answers. The commercialization of cellulosic ethanol too often plays out like a Greek tragedy, […]
In California, Solazyme announced today the execution of both a joint development agreement and a letter of intent with Dow Chemical, to use Solazyme’s algal oils in next generation, bio-based dielectric insulating fluids key to transformers and other electrical applications. Under the terms of the joint development agreement, Dow will combine its knowledge of specialty […]
In Missouri, FutureFuel announced it plans to launch an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on or around March 23 trading under the symbol “FF”. The Company’s common stock will continue to be quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol “FTFL” until the transfer is completed. More on the story.
In Mississippi, KiOR has signed an offtake agreement with Hunt Refining of Tennessee for biofuels produced at the facility KiOR is developing in Columbus. The company is planning to invest $500 million in three wood chip-to-biofuel plants in Mississippi and the Columbus plant is expected to be online in 2012. The state’s development authority is […]
