Category: 5-Minute Guide

Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Solazyme: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 8, 2015 |

Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – petroleum, plants and animal fats. Initially, Solazyme is focused on commercializing its products into […]

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Green Plains: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Green Plains: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 5, 2015 |

Green Plains is a vertically-integrated ethanol producer based in Omaha, Nebraska. They currently have an ethanol production capacity of approximately 1.0 billion gallons per year with 12 plants located in Atkinson, Nebraska; Bluffton, Indiana; Central City, Nebraska; Fairmont, Minnesota; Fergus Falls, Minnesota; Lakota, Iowa; Obion, Tennessee; Ord, Nebraska; Riga, Michigan; Shenandoah, Iowa; Superior, Iowa; and Wood River, Nebraska. […]

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American Process: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

American Process: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 4, 2015 |

Although American Process has been most closely associated with its complete cellulosic biofuels package — of late, the company has been much in focus because of its capabilities in producing low-cost renewable sugars. Thought it was a matter of making sugars and shipping them to an ethanol producer? Think again. In this case, there are […]

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American Process: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

American Process: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 4, 2015 |

Although American Process has been most closely associated with its complete cellulosic biofuels package — of late, the company has been much in focus because of its capabilities in producing low-cost renewable sugars. Thought it was a matter of making sugars and shipping them to an ethanol producer? Think again. In this case, there are […]

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Joule Unlimited: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Joule Unlimited: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 3, 2015 |

Joule is advancing a production platform for Liquid Fuel from the Sun, expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Its transformative Helioculture platform directly and continuously converts sunlight and waste CO2 to infrastructure-ready diesel, ethanol or commodity chemicals with no dependence on biomass feedstocks, downstream […]

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Honeywell’s UOP: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Honeywell’s UOP: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 2, 2015 |

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. The joint venture will utilize forest and agriculture residues as feedstocks in a Rapid Thermal […]

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Butamax: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Butamax: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

February 1, 2015 |

A BP joint venture with DuPont, Butamax Advanced Biofuels is developing the isobutanol, which has a higher energy content that ethanol, can be blended at higher rates into fuel that can be used by vehicles on the road today and may be able to facilitate the adoption of biofuels into the fuel supply chain at a […]

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Neste Oil: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Neste Oil: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

January 29, 2015 |

Neste Oil is a refining and marketing company, with a production focus on premium-quality, lower-emission traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world’s leading supplier of renewable diesel. The company had net sales of EUR 17.5 billion in 2013 and employs around 5,000 people. Neste Oil’s share […]

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Cool Planet: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Cool Planet: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

January 28, 2015 |

Cool Planet is a technology company that is developing sustainable products to address three of the world’s largest markets: energy, food and water. Currently they are commercializing a technology to create drop-in green fuels and biochar in a way that can change the world for good. The green fuels are chemically identical to fossil fuels […]

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Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide

January 27, 2015 |

Gevo has two proprietary technologies that combine to make it possible to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol which serves as a hydrocarbon platform molecule. We have developed a robust industrial scale yeast biocatalyst to produce isobutanol without typical byproducts operating at parameters equivalent to commercial ethanol producers. The second […]

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