Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with… Joe Jobe, CEO, National Biodiesel Board

4 minutes with… Joe Jobe, CEO, National Biodiesel Board

January 6, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. NBB is the US trade association representing America’s 1st Advanced Biofuel. We work toward sustainable growth through education, communication, government affairs, technical/quality assurance. Members are feedstock & feedstock processor orgs, biodiesel and renewable hydrocarbon diesel suppliers, fuel marketers, distributors, & technology providers. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Bart Carpenter, Technology Director, URS Corporation (now part of AECOM)

4 minutes with… Bart Carpenter, Technology Director, URS Corporation (now part of AECOM)

January 5, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. AECOM has nearly 100k employees and is actively involved in a variety of green energy projects. Our depth allows us to provide comprehensive services from inception and planning to completion and start-up. We have experience with wind, solar, geothermal, cogen and biofuel/biochemical projects […]

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4 Minutes with…Tim Burns, Co-Founder, Board Member, bioprocess Algae

4 Minutes with…Tim Burns, Co-Founder, Board Member, bioprocess Algae

January 4, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. BPA is one of the pioneers in biofilm-based algae production and we are currently operating one of the longest-standing biological carbon capture and re-use facilities in the country. Our co-located facility utilizes waste heat and CO2 from a corn-ethanol plant to produce high […]

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4 minutes with… Mike Perry, CEO, Forest Concepts

4 minutes with… Mike Perry, CEO, Forest Concepts

January 1, 2015 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Under DOE/USDA SBIR projects, my company has developed and patented a low energy rotary shear machine that can process a variety of normal moisture (green) biomass including wood, corn stover, miscanthus, switchgrass and others into flowable uniform particles down to 1.6mm for optimized […]

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4 minutes with… Samuel Kanes, Founding Director, BlueOcean NutraSciences

4 minutes with… Samuel Kanes, Founding Director, BlueOcean NutraSciences

December 31, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. BlueOcean (BOC.TSXV) holds the exclusive global patent rights to technology that captures and dissolves CO2 gas into solutions for accelerating biomass growth. The first commercial development is accelerating algae growth beyond current photosynthetic algae bioreactor potential. A unit is being demonstrated at the […]

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4 minutes with… Barry Farquharson, CEO, Nova Green

4 minutes with… Barry Farquharson, CEO, Nova Green

December 30, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Our proprietary technology sequentially transforms agricultural and forestry biomass into a series of high value end products. The products feed in to both food & nutrition, and clean tech. Nutrition products are edible, functional fibre, and diabetic safe sugars. Remnant becomes activated biochar, […]

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4 minutes with… Joel A. Balbien, Consultant, TechNavi

4 minutes with… Joel A. Balbien, Consultant, TechNavi

December 29, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. TechNavi, LLC provides Strategic Advisory services to Japanese manufacturers to interface with US and European high-tech companies. Services range from establishing partnerships with companies that can help complete product development roadmaps to conducting Technology Transfer and Licensing activities. Tell us about your role […]

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4 minutes with…Oleg Padalko, Director, N-f-P Partnership

4 minutes with…Oleg Padalko, Director, N-f-P Partnership

December 28, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. The partnership has been founded in 2001 by 11 founders.Main areas of activity:waste minimization programs for industrial enterprises planning and implementation,MSW flows,incl. landfills, analytical description and management programs, pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction of waste and not usable biomass for CHP production. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Dr. Donald L. Smith, McGill University, CEO and Scientific Director of BioFuelNet

4 minutes with… Dr. Donald L. Smith, McGill University, CEO and Scientific Director of BioFuelNet

December 25, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. BioFuelNet is a not-for-profit company whose objective is to network all elements (academic, industry, government) of the advanced biofuels community in Canada in order to accelerate development of a sustainable advanced biofuels industry. We are funded by the Canadian Networks of Centres of […]

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4 minutes with… Sam Burkett, President, BioBlend Renewable Resources

4 minutes with… Sam Burkett, President, BioBlend Renewable Resources

December 24, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. BioBlend makes and sells high performance industrial lubricants that are biobased, biodegradable and ultra-low toxicity. BioBlend makes and is continually improving products that compete in price / value and performance to their petroleum counterparts while having significant environmental advantages. Tell us about your […]

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