The IH2 process was developed by Gas Technology Institute (GTI) of Des Plaines, Illinois—a research, development, and training organization serving energy markets. GTI experts invented, tested, and patented IH2 technology and are providing ongoing commercialization support. Twelve US and seven international patents have been issued on the technology. CRI Catalyst Company of Houston, Texas has been granted […]
High drama at the White House in recent days and weeks — a series of meetings as certain merchant oil refiners seek caps on US ethanol mandates and RIN prices, while ethanol producers and their corn growing suppliers seek to protect the foundational mandate paseed by Congress in 2007 that set the country on a […]
Sweetwater Energy has developed a unique and patented technology for producing low-cost sugars and clean lignin fiber from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world’s increasing demand for biochemicals, bioplastics and biofuels. Sweetwater CEO Arunas Chesonis gave this illuminating presentation on the company’s promise and progress at ABLC 2018 in Washington DC […]
In Iowa, POET CEO Jeff Broin told delegates at the Iowa Partnering for Growth meeting in Ankeny, Iowa today that there is still a deal on the table to provide year-round E15 approval for the biofuels industry and that may offer some relief to small merchant oil refiners. He said that it was possible that […]
In the United States, NCAA basketball teams are proceeding from the Sweet Sixteen to the Final Four; we have a mash-up today in the advanced bioeconomy where the Sweet Four have emerged, as Cargill, Evolva, S2G and Fortress Global have big news to share relating to scaling some of the more critical sweetener technologies. Cargill […]
On January 29th, 2018 Fortress Paper announced it had changed its name to “Fortress Global Enterprises” in order to better reflect its existing business and future prospects. Fortress Global Enterprises operates its dissolving pulp business at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill located in Canada, which also operates in the renewable energy generation sector through its […]
The United States Department of Energy’s Sustainable Transportation sector, part of EERE, includes the Vehicle, Fuel Cell, and Bioenergy Technologies offices. This portfolio focuses on research and development to increase access to domestic, clean transportation fuels and improve the energy efficiency, convenience, and affordability of transporting people and goods to support U.S. energy security, economic […]
If you haven’t been to Ankeny, Iowa in recent years — situated between Des Moines and Ames, which is to say between the political and financial capital of the state and Iowa State University and its ag-intellectual engine — you’ll find that it has become one of the fastest growing smaller towns in the nation. […]
Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, a renewable diesel process, as well as a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. UOP also owns a Renewable Energy & Chemicals business that produced green diesel using its Ecofining […]
In Massachusetts, World Energy has acquired renewable jet and diesel producer AltAir Paramount, and its Paramount Petroleum refinery assets, both collocated in Paramount, CA, as well an adjacent tank farm and most of Delek’s California pipeline assets, from Delek US Holdings, for $72 million in total consideration. It’s the first time ever that a biofuels […]
