With such a strong emphasis on the potential for shipping biomass pellets from the U.S. to Europe, producers should be careful not to overlook Asian markets.
Pellet producers who have not gotten into export markets may not realize the multitude of factors they'll need to specify in sales and shipping contracts. It was one of many topics addressed at the North American Biomass Pellet Export Conference.
University of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley, have engineered a unique yeast strain that is capable of converting red seaweed into cellulosic ethanol in half the time. Butanol is next.
Spain-based Neuron Bio recently announced it has commissioned a pilot-scale batch fermentation plant that will be used to scale up the production of yeast, bacteria and algae as part of its own research and development efforts.
Air Products notes that many advanced biofuels projects under construction or in planning phase require oxygen for gasification steps, hydrogen for oil upgrading to a final biofuel product and nitrogen as an inert and fluidizing medium.
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Air Products gets supply contract for Ineos plant
September 07, 2011
Ineos Bio's joint venture, Ineos New Planet BioEnergy LLC, continues to make progress on its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Vero Beach, Fla., and says it is on schedule to begin production early next year.
Southwest Georgia Ethanol LLC has filed a restructuring plan in U.S. Bankruptcy Court and a Sept. 27 deadline has been set for filing written objection to the plan.
American Wood Council President Robert Glowinski issued a statement regarding the American Forest & Paper Association's release of a new study focused on the economic impact of pending air regulations.
The U.K.'s National Non-Food Crops Centre has been chosen to investigate the environmental impacts of algae-based bioenergy, and help the region to formulate a long-term plan for algae. The report will include reference documents for policymakers.
OriginOil Inc. announced in early September that delegates to the recent Algae World Australia conference toured its next-generation algae extraction technology at a university-staffed site featuring end-to-end algae production in North Queensland.
DOE's EERE awarded $12 million to three small-scale biorefining projects in Illinois, Wisconsin and North Carolina that aim to commercialize novel conversion technologies and accelerate the development of drop-in advanced biofuels and biochemicals.
On Sept. 6 Nidus Partners LP announced that Denmark-based Novozymes has joined Nidus as a corporate partner. Novozymes will collaborate with Nidus and its other partners Bunge Ltd. and Monsanto Co. to select and develop early-stage technologies.
Biome Technologies experienced a 132 percent sales revenue growth within its U.K. bioplastics division, Biome Bioplastics, making the division profitable for the first time. The entire Biome group revenue increased by 55 percent during the period.
Working the DDGS beat
September 06, 2011
Distillers grains might not be the flashiest of topics for a writer to expound on but —for some reason—it interests this writer.
No one stepped up to purchase the idled Clean Burn Fuels LLC ethanol plant in Raeford, N.C., during a foreclosure auction in late August, but that shouldn't be taken as a sign that no one is interested, says the plant's primary lender, and now owner.
ABC to host webinar on financing biogas projects
September 06, 2011
As with any capital intensive project, biogas projects must make sense on paper before implementation can begin. So said the American Biogas Council in announcing a Sept. 14 webinar designed to educate and inform on the project financing process.
W2E Organic Power is launching an anaerobic digestion project in Columbia, S.C., that it hopes will be a template for future waste-to-energy facilities. Construction will begin in the coming months with operations expected to start in 2012.
Despite policy uncertainty in the U.K., the biomass power industry is unwavering, thanks to large developers still proposing a number of new projects, as well as making significant progress on many announced last year.
The link between algae and solar
September 06, 2011
The solar industry has hit hard times. How will bad news in the solar industry affect the algae industry?
Looking for news
September 02, 2011
We don't require polished pieces and welcome informal emailed notes from ethanol producers that we can followup with a call.
LanzaTech lands federal support for ethanol-to-jet fuel
September 02, 2011
LanzaTech has been awarded $4 million in U.S. DOE funding to further its technology to produce ethanol and chemicals from waste gases, with a goal of further conversion to jet fuel.
Kurt Rosentrater recently left the USDA-ARS to join faculty at ISU focusing on distillers grains, their value-added uses, and the role distillers grains plays in the overall sustainability of ethanol production.
DDGS use promoted in Columbia, Panama City, Geneva events set
By USGS
September 02, 2011
In August the U.S. Grains Council conducted a series of workshops in Colombia to promote DDGS use to the poultry and swine sectors in the country. Fall events are planned in Panama City, Panama, and Geneva, Switzerland.
Africa Renewables Ltd., headquartered in London, is actively recruiting for more than 70 new forestry and biomass production jobs in Ghana to support the country's first wood chip supply chain venture.
Japan to Implement Feed-In Tariff
By Rona Johnson
September 02, 2011
While the federal and state governments in the U.S. cobble together a hodge-podge of various incentives to support renewable energy (that often favor one source or fuel over another), other countries are implementing feed-in tariffs.
Vilsack discusses biorefining industry on Platts
September 01, 2011
Tom Vilsack spoke about the U.S. biofuels industry on Platts Energy Week Aug. 28. While Vilsack did briefly discuss subsidies for ethanol production, the bulk of his talk focused on our nation's developing cellulosic and drop-in biofuels industries.
Trillium awarded SBIR grant from National Science Foundation
By Trillium FiberFuels
September 01, 2011
Trillium FiberFuels Inc. has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant to further its work in developing innovative technologies for creating fuel-grade ethanol from straw and other biomass.
Researchers use bacterium to convert cellulose into n-butanol
By Bryan Sims
September 01, 2011
A team of researchers at Tulane University have discovered a unique bacterial strain of clostridia, coined TU-103, that has the ability to convert cellulosic materials into biobased normal butyl alcohol, or n-butanol, in the presence of oxygen.
ADM CO2 sequestration, education project moving forward
September 01, 2011
The demonstration project at Archer Daniels Midland Co.'s Decatur, Ill., ethanol plant is the first large-scale carbon capture project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to move into construction phase.
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