The U.S. Air Force has opened a public comment period on its draft environmental assessment for the proposed Red Rock Biofuels LLC biorefinery. The facility is expected to produce 14 MMgy of biofuel from woody biomass using a Fischer-Tropsch process.
Global Bioenergies and Audi announce the signature of a new collaboration agreement to further broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies' isobutene process to include feedstocks beyond biomass.
Emissions testing by Rolls-Royce and supported by the Federal Aviation Administration have confirmed that jet fuels containing Virent's BioForm synthesized aromatic kerosene fuel blend achieve greater than 50 percent particulate matter reduction.
In mid-December, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is seeking the democratic presidential nomination, introduced legislation that aims to enact long-term extensions of several clean energy tax credits that benefit the bioenergy and biofuel sectors.
In recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to issue funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to support the development of biobased hydrocarbon fuels and algae biomass.
America's Renewable Future recently released its final candidate report card. The report card places each presidential contender into a good or bad category based on their support for the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS).
To better reflect the remarkable progress and groundbreaking innovations its members achieve in healing, fueling and feeding the world, BIO is changing its name to Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
A six-year Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center study on the viability of different bioenergy feedstocks recently demonstrated that perennial cropping systems can yield as much biomass as corn stover.
Scientists at Indiana University have created a highly efficient biomaterial that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen, one half of the "holy grail" of splitting H2O to make hydrogen and oxygen for fueling cheap and efficient cars that run on water.
Waste Management recently published its 2015 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress made in meeting its 2020 sustainability goals. The report provides updated data to the company's full 2014 report titled "Creating a Circular Economy."
Nancy Ho, founder and president of Green Tech America Inc. and a research professor emerita in Purdue University's School of Chemical Engineering, will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama.
Energy markets have always been a low-margin game, but current conditions leave producers little margin for error. Thoughtful, well considered operations and maintenance strategies may well be the surest path to profitability.
In November, an international consortium led by Autodisplay Biotech GmbH started Pathway EFB, a collaborative research and development project to lower cellulase cost in the production of biofuels and biobased chemicals.
Lux Research named Fulcrum BioEnergy to its top 10 list of innovative companies from 2015. Fulcrum was the only alternative fuels company named to the list. The company is developing a biorefinery near Reno, Nevada.
Heriot-Watt University has announced plans to lead a multi-disciplinary project to develop low carbon aviation fuels from captured CO2 and waste biomass. Aston and Oxford Universities and the University of Edinburgh will contribute to the project.
The USDA has released a list of its 2015 top achievements. The list includes several achievements that have benefited the biofuel and bioenergy sectors, including funding for ethanol fuel pumps and progress with the BioPreferred Program.
Anellotech, IFP Energies nouvelles and Axens have completed construction on a development and testing plant for the Bio-TCAT process, a thermal catalytic process to produce biobased aromatics. Anellotech will now commence onsite installation.
The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service has published a notice announcing its intention to request a revision and extension of a currently approved information collection for a residue and biomass field survey.
The U.S. EPA has released renewable identification number (RIN) data for November, reporting that more than 1.49 billion RINs were generated during the month, including more than 12.39 million cellulosic RINs.
I write this blog fresh off of the March Biomass Magazine planning meeting. The theme that month is project development and plant construction, one of my favorite themes, and arguably one of the most important issues of the year.
At the University of Delaware, associate scientist Jennifer Stewart is working to create sustainable algae-based biofuels that could reduce carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions in the atmosphere.
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced that it will be part of a major collaborative research project to improve sorghum's productivity under resource-limited conditions. The research is funded by the the U.S. Department of Energy.
A notice published in the Federal Register by the Regulatory Information Service Center includes a projected timeline for the U.S. EPA's rulemaking for the 2017 renewable fuel standard (RFS) volume obligations.
Through smart management and research and development by federal and state agriculture agencies, the yields of many crops have increased over the years, resulting in more protein and biomass for a variety of uses.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology recently released results of a research project that investigated the possibility of the use of liquefied coal and biomass mixtures as a military jet fuel.
In October, probiofuel dignitaries celebrated the grand opening of DuPont's Nevada, Iowa, cellulosic ethanol plant, closing the first chapter of the industry's second-generation build-out story.
UPS recently announced it will supply its fleet in Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, with renewable natural gas (RNG) as part of a multi-year agreement with Memphis Light, Gas and Water and Atmos Energy Marketing LLC.
On Dec. 18, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill and accompanying legislative package of tax extenders into law. The legislation includes two-year extensions of several tax credits that benefit the bioenergy sector.
As 2015 comes to a close, the Biomass Magazine staff has already been working on 2016 issues for a couple of months. Today, I'm going to share with you my personal favorites from each section.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory published an article in Scientific Reports on its new method to directly convert biomass-derived ethanol to a hydrocarbon blendstock and is continuing work with Vertimass LLC to commercialize it.
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