Flagship VentureLabs has announced that Midori Renewables is globally deploying their trademarked Breaking the Biomass Barrier technology, a novel catalyst that melts non-food biomass into low-cost sugar.
The Algae Biomass Organization and the Algae Industry Incubation Consortium, Japan, announced today a cooperative effort to share algae industry best practices and expertise that is commencing at the International Symposium on Algal Biomass.
Environmental Entrepreneurs has released a new report that predicts projected growth in advanced biofuel production capacity will be sufficient to meet both the federal renewable fuels standard and California's low carbon fuel standard through 2016.
The U.S. EPA has released renewable identification number (RIN) data for July, showing that 56,460 D3 cellulosic biofuel and 44,253 D7 cellulosic diesel RINs were generated during the month. Advanced biofuel production was also up.
With synthetic biology (synbio) rapidly gaining momentum, and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court judgment striking down an age-old biological patenting system, biotechnology companies need to incorporate open-source into their innovation plans.
California-based Cool Planet Energy Systems and the Ventura County Parks Department completed a joint vehicle road test using renewable gasoline. Officials used a 5 percent blend of Cool Planet's biofuel in an SUV over a six week period.
R.C. Costello & Associates Inc. and Zeton Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding to provide a customized "end-to-end" solution from feasibility studies, process simulation, front end engineering to detailed design, procurement, and fabrication.
Airbus and RT-Biotekhprom (Rostec Group) signed a cooperation agreement to launch a large-scale analysis of Russian feedstock, and to evaluate how to speed up the development and commercialization of sustainable fuels for aviation.
A new BioCNG filling station located at the Dane County, Wis.-based Rodefeld Landfill is turning even more trash into gas, with a recent expansion to more than double the production of compressed biogas and increase storage six-fold.
Scientists working at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility are looking to nature's catalysts, enzymes, for inspiration in their quest to find a more effective means of converting biomass into renewable fuel.
LAN Colombia, member of the LATAM Airlines Group, with the help of Terpel, recently marked a milestone in the country's and region's commercial aviation history by carrying out the first flight in Colombia using second generation biofuel.
Washington County, Md., recently announced it is forming a public-private partnership with America First Inc. to launch a waste-to-renewable energy initiative. The two-phase project will produce refuse-derived pellets and drop-in biofuels.
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture recently announced that a value chain consortium has presented a final report to local corn producers, showing that it is commercially viable to establish a cellulosic sugar plant in southwestern Ontario.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Cool Planet Energy Systems President and CEO Howard Janzen have announced the company will build three biorefineries in Louisiana with a capital investment of $168 million.
On Aug. 26, Gevo Inc. held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its demonstration-scale paraxylene plant in Silsbee, Texas. A few days prior to the opening, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., toured Gevo's headquarters and discussed energy policy.
Optinol Inc. announced that the company has achieved energy cost parity feasibility with ethanol for the production of biobutanol (n-butanol) from a wide variety of sugars using a production solution tailored to an organism.
In collaboration with the Durack Institute of Technology, Australia-based Aurora Algae reported that it has completed construction of a new algae cultivation site in Geraldton, Western Australia.
The Commodity Credit Corp. is accepting offers from bioenergy producers to purchase sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers (FFP). Offers, modification of offers or withdrawal of offers must be received by Aug. 28.
The National Science Foundation recently opened a new funding opportunity under its Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering program, which supports fundamental engineering research on cellular and biomolecular processes.
Researchers with the U.S. DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute have reported the first demonstration of a one-pot, wash-free, process for the ionic liquid pretreatment and saccharification of switchgrass, one of the leading potential biofuel feedstocks.
Rentech Inc. recently announced its subsidiary has closed on the sale of approximately 450 acres of land near Natchez, Miss., for $9 million. The company also released its second quarter financial results, providing an update of its pellet business.
Surplus sugar is one step closer to entering the U.S. biofuels industry as feedstock. The USDA Farm Service Agency recently published a notice soliciting bids under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers.
A fungus and E. coli bacteria have joined forces to turn tough, waste plant material into isobutanol. University of Michigan research team members said the principle also could be used to produce other valuable chemicals such as plastics.
California-based NextFuels has emerged from stealth mode and is unveiling its strategy to produce advanced biofuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste via a hydrothermal process originally developed by Shell in the 1980s.
Dyadic International Inc. has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2013, noting that total revenue for the three-month period decreased to $7.1 million compared to $7.8 million for the same period of last year.
During the second installment in Biomass Magazine's free webinar series, four companies provided progress reports on the construction of their respective biomass power, biogas, and advanced biofuel plants.
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