In California, Aemetis announced at Advanced Biofuels Markets the world’s first flight segment on 100% renewable, drop-in biofuel, conducted by the National Research Council of Canada using its Falcon 20 jet. The drop-in fuel was produced using AgrisomaResonance Energy Feedstock, a dedicated industrial oilseed that was launched at commercial scale in 2012 across a broad […]
In California, Biofuels Digest offered live, session-by-session coverage from Advanced Biofuels Markets. Opportunities in Biobased chemicals and materials: Segetis, Virent, Avantium, Codexis Strategic partnerships and their role in biofuels scale: Boeing, Battelle, Chemtex, REG, Blue Sugars CEOs advise on “The Race for Scale”: Gevo, ZeaChem, LS9, Aemetis, KiOR Beta Renewables keynote on Novozymes partnership Policy […]
$25 million Series C closes with new investors ITOCHU Corp. and Macquarie In Oregon, ZeaChem announced at Advanced Biofuels Markets that it has completed construction of its 250,000 gallons per year cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman. The project was completed on budget and is expected to begin production of cellulosic ethanol by the end of […]
Policy Panel 9:14 am: Some missing characters, as many have been stranded by Hurricane Sandy. 9:17 am: Brooke Coleman is up first, discussing progress over at the Advanced Ethanol Council 9:23 am: The “blueprint for success” is revealed, discussing the difference between one year extensions and comprehensive tax reform 9:29 am : Conservative player said […]
Novozymes becomes preferred enzyme supplier for Beta Renewables’ current and future cellulosic biofuel projects; embedded in Proesa production technology. In Denmark and Italy, Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes, and Beta Renewables, a global leader in cellulosic biofuels and part of Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, announced an agreement to jointly market, demonstrate and […]
BP to focus U.S. biofuels investments on R&D, technology licensing. What happened? What’s next? In Florida, BP announced it is canceling plans to build a 36 million gallon commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. The company said that it would refocus its US biofuels strategy on R&D, as well as licensing its industry–leading biofuels […]
By Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider This week a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) announced that they were producing gasoline from thin air. The raw materials for their process reportedly being literally air and water. A company spokesman explained: “We haven’t broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics or anything. We take carbon, we […]
Who’s poured $116M into Algenol and Aurora Algae? Now we know, it’s Reliance. Back in early 2010, a lot of data began to accumulate suggesting that Reliance Industries Limited, the petroleum, chemicals, telecom and manufacturing conglomerate, was going to make a bet on algae in the fuels and chemicals space. Reliance — for those less […]
Can local communities pyrolize their wastes and residues, to make renewable fuels and chemicals at biobased super-refineries? Two-step processes could be the ticket to the future, according to an Iowa State team. Imagine, for a moment, a biorefinery as large as an oil refinery – competing on equivalent scales, gaining comparable economic and tax incentives […]
Deployment of next-gen bagasse-to-biofuels technologies could expand ethanol production in Brazil, India by 35 percent without land, water intensification. After several years of technology and partnership development — advanced biofuels are coming to Brazil in a big way, and India may not be far behind. The reason? Opportunities with bagasse, the leftover from crushed cane […]
