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Gates injects $100 million in algae companySapphire Energy announced that upon recent completion of its second round of funding, the company has since acquired "substantially more than $100 million" to commercialize its algae-to-green-crude production.READ MORE Virent receives $1 million to research biogasolineVirent Energy Systems Inc. in Madison, Wis., has been awarded a $500,000 grant and a $500,000 loan from the Wisconsin Energy Independence Fund to help design, build and operate a pilot plant that will produce up to 10,000 gallons of biogasoline from biomass annually.READ MORE Aquaflow biofuel technology shows potentialNew Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corp. has announced that it has produced its first samples of green-crude from wild and natural algae. The company said the green-crude differs slightly from first-generation biofuels because it's made solely from photosynthetic microorganisms.READ MORE UOP, Ensyn to form joint venture companyUOP LLC, an Illinois-based Honeywell subsidiary, and Ontario-based Ensyn Corp. announced Sept. 10 that they have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture company. The new entity will license technology and equipment that will convert biomass into oil used for power generation, and in heating and transportation fuels.READ MORE ISU breaks ground on biorenewables laboratoryIowa State University broke ground on a $32 million, 166,000-square-foot biorenewable laboratory Sept. 8. The lab is part of a $99 million biorenewable complex, including a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center that will focus on developing catalysts that promote chemical reactions to efficiently produce biorenewable chemicals.READ MORE PelletSales.com software gauges supply, demandPelletSales.com LLC, a national distributor of biomass that specializes in wood pellets, has developed proprietary software that allows the company to gauge biomass demand and locate supply throughout the United States. The company then coordinates transportation of the biomass supply.READ MORE Genencor, Goodyear to create tires from biomassGenencor, a Division of Danisco A/S, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have announced that they are working together to develop a process to convert biomass into BioIsoprene, a potential ingredient in synthetic rubber and other elastomers. BioIsoprene is expected to serve as an alternative to isoprene derived from petroleum.READ MORE Nexterra to provide ORNL with biomass systemVancouver, British Columbia-based Nexterra Energy Corp., a developer and supplier of biomass gasification systems, will supply the U.S. DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee with a multi-million-dollar gasification system.READ MORE |
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