Having already demonstrated its ability to effectively produce a suite of green chemicals from cellulosic and other nonfood-based biomass at its one-ton-per-day pilot facility in Seattle, Blue Marble Biomaterials intends to build on that success by repurposing a 40,000-square-foot facility into a 100 metric-ton-per-month biobased chemical plant in Corvallis, Mt.
Poultry feathers aren't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of feedstock for renewable thermoplastics, but executives with Mt. Crawford, Va.
Increased use and production of biobased succinic acid as a viable alternative to conventional, expensive petrochemicals is anticipated to fuel global market growth in the next five years, according to a report released by Global Industry Analysts Inc.
Corn's versatility and man's innovation have led to production of feed, food, chemicals and fuel such as ethanol. Now, the collection of corn is drawing interest from several companies more interested in the cobs than the corn itself.
Student A (as in, anybody from anywhere) is interested in all things bio, everything from biobased chemicals to biorefining. Student A is not alone. A growing number of high school, undergraduate and graduate level individuals are pursuing an education in bioenergy and biomaterials just like Student A, and the evidence is in the classroom.
For 18 of the top 20 groundwater contaminants found at hazardous waste sites, there's a new biodegradable, renewable product to clean up the mess.
Royalties, milestones and process design packages, up-front and back-end payments and equity stakes: for anyone who's committed long hours to testing and retesting, tuning or tweaking their advanced biorefining process and feels ready to bring it to the masses, there's only one thing to know-the language of licensing.
Under certain conditions almost anything is possible-just ask Compact Contractors of America LLC. The Utah-based company has developed a process that, at the right temperatures, dries an algal feedstock resulting in a powdered algae-based fuel.
The Velocys Inc. microchannel reactor features 900 microchannels-and none of these channels have anything to do with cooking, sports or news. The people of Gussing, Austria, a town known for its pioneering spirit on renewable energy production, are still watching, though.
In March, the USDA issued a request for eligible advanced biofuel producers, offering funding under the Advanced Biofuel Payment Program. The initial request said “eligible advanced biofuels must have been produced in a biofuel facility located in a rural area and whose owners met U.
Japan-based NEC Corp. has developed a biobased plastic manufactured by bonding cellulose with cardanol, an oil-like material derived from the shells of cashew nuts.
While most are well aware that volatility, price spikes and overall price increases have characterized the U.S. transportation fuel market over the past decade, the effect these factors have had on the domestic petrochemical industry may be less clear.
From a business standpoint, it's a match made in heaven: an idled, financially distressed industrial manufacturing facility devoid of working capital with a depleted workforce and depreciating assets teams up with an emerging advanced biofuel and green chemical technology firm eager to use the host facility to deploy its new platforms while leveraging existing infrastructure.
The Inbicon Biomass Technology Campus doesn't look like a campus. Instead of ivy-covered walls, a gray steel skin and Danish-modern design disguise the growth of scientific knowledge going on inside.
Montana State University researchers have discovered a new way to increase lipid-production in various algal strains by introducing bicarbonate, a low-cost and easy-to-use chemical similar to common stomach antacids.
Iowa State University's Christopher Williams was just trying to see if adding bio-oil to asphalt would improve the hot- and cold-weather performance of pavements.
Despite billions of dollars in financing, countless government incentives, and a graveyard of failed startups, global biofuel capacity represents only 3 percent of petroleum fuels, while biobased materials have only captured 1 percent of the market from plastics.
Mendel plants miscanthus on reclaimed mining lands
October 06, 2010
Mendel Biotechnology and Ohio-based coal mining company Oxford Resource Partners will team up for a pilot project that will experiment with growing Mendel's proprietary miscanthus varieties on Oxford's reclaimed mining lands.
Zeroing in on Power and Thermal
By Rona Johnson
October 06, 2010
I am pleased to announce that Biomass Magazine is now Biomass Power & Thermal. Although it may look like a subtle change on the magazine cover, it is an important transformation in content.As the . . .
Nicholasville, Ky.-based global animal nutrition supplier Alltech Inc. acquired a state-of-the-art fermentation facility in Winchester, Ky., from Martek Bioscience Corp.
University of California Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology is hosting a series of free events Oct. 14 to highlight the future of renewable energy and serve as a launch pad for its new Alternative Transportation Fuels Research Center of Excellence.
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp., the Vancouver, British Columbia-based distributed power company, plans to restart operations at its bio-oil production facility in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Are sales good news or bad news?
October 04, 2010
North Dakota's legacy ethanol plant, Alchem at Grafton was bought in auction this week for just under $600,000. The new owner is a Minnesota steel company that has bought other old ethanol plants and either sold or repurposed them. It won't be the first repurposing for the Grafton plant. At the very beginning, the plant was converted from a potato flaking plant into producing 3.5 MMgy of the ethanol in 1983. By the time it closed a couple of years ago its capacity was around 10 MMgy.
Election-Year Politics Could Impact RES
By Rona Johnson
October 01, 2010
If you haven't heard there's an election coming up, and for some reason lawmakers think they can best serve their constituents by doing nothing.
Join biomass peers at BBI International's Southeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show, Nov. 2-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. One of the featured panels at the event is Technological Pathways to Renewable Hydrocarbons.
Researchers at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service are developing an effective way to break down plant fiber using feruloyl esterases (FAEs), a special group of enzymes found in cow rumen.
Bend, Ore.-based InEnTec LLC was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as the winner of its 2010 Technology Innovation Award in Energy. The prize recognizes InEnTec's proprietary waste gasification system, called the Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM).
On Sept. 29, British Columbia-based Lignol Energy Corp. announced that the U.S. DOE has informed its U.S. subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Inc., of a modification to its cooperative agreement.
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