Quad County Corn Processors is working toward production of both grain-based and cellulosic ethanol from the same feedstock.
The idea of cellulosic ethanol from corn bran or fiber has been around for more than a decade with little progress. Is that about to change?
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University of Nevada-Reno researchers are leading an effort to identify the gene pathways responsible for the great water efficiency in desert plants, and transfer that to poplar trees being developed for biofuels.
In California, Los Angeles County is taking action to support the development of technologies to convert landfill waste into biofuels and biopower. The county's Board of Supervisors voted to advocate for waste-to-biofuel and waste-to-energy projects.
A drought tolerant grass fed to cattle in the tropics is being studied as a possible cellulosic ethanol feedstock in southern states, with encouraging results. The research is ongoing as part of a search for alternative biofuel feedstocks.
Oregon State University researchers have outlined the latest findings on reduced height growth in trees through genetic modification, concluding that several advantageous growth traits could be achieved for short-rotation forestry and bioenergy.
A research project at a demonstration plant in Sweden has concluded, successfully verifying an enzyme for use in the production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals.The enzyme is AlternaFuel CMAX, a trademarked product of Dyadic International Inc.
Not long after conducting an executive swing through five of the 10 communities where it owns ethanol plants, Valero Corp. announced that the two plants that had been temporarily idled had been restarted at Albion, Neb., and Linden, Ind.
BioFuel Energy Corp., an ethanol production company, announced today that it has decided to idle its Fairmont, Minn., ethanol facility until further notice. The plant ceased ethanol production as of the end of last week.
Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance criticized the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development senior counselor Carmel Cahill for making unsubstantiated comments targeting the role of biofuels mandates in food price inflation.
A leaked proposal by the European Commission reportedly indicates that European governments are considering altering the Renewable Energy Directive to place more emphasis on advanced biofuel feedstocks, while capping crop-based biofuel consumption.
If Purdue University researchers have their way, the term "biofuel plant" will take on a whole new meaning. A team received a $5.2 million U.S. DOE grant to develop a plant that can make substances that could be used directly as a biofuel.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $11.8 million in additional financial and technical assistance to help crop and livestock producers in 22 states apply conservation practices that reduce the impacts of drought.
Despite weather challenges and the learning curve for farmers unfamiliar with this energy sorghum, one of the first commercial-scale plantings of the crop in the U.S. has been a success. A recent field day in New York focused on the crop.
Paris-based Deinove recently announced that its research and development team, in cooperation with partners in its Deinol program, successfully isolated and optimized a strain of Deinococcus bacteria to produce ethanol from wheat-based feedstock.
For years, National Sorghum Producers have advocated for increasing the use of grain sorghum, or milo, as an ethanol feedstock. Lately, the idea seems to be gaining steam, due to drought conditions and other factors.
The USDA dropped its estimate for the national average corn yield by 0.6 bushels to 122.8 bushels per acre on Aug. 12, a figure on the higher side of some trade estimates that projected yields dropping below 120 bushels per acre.
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