Global Industry Analysts has released a comprehensive global report on the soy chemicals market. Factors catalyzing growth in the market is the increasing demand for biodiesel and renewable plastics and shift in industry focus toward alternatives.
Renewable oil and bioproducts firm Solazyme Inc. and Bunge Global Innovation LLC have agreed to form a joint venture to build, own and operate a commercial-scale renewable oil production facility adjacent to Bunge's Moema sugarcane mill in Brazil.
The round of funding will be used to directly support the development of its "active and on-schedule" 300-acre integrated algae-to-biofuel demonstration facility, coined the Green Crude Farm, currently under construction in Luna County, N.M.
The potential for expansion of biobased automotive parts and components manufacturing in the Great Lakes region is high, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The new technique, a dynamic sensor-regulator system, tripled the amount of biobased diesel produced from glucose in one demonstration. It is able to detect metabolic changes in microbes during the production of fatty acid-based fuels or chemicals.
Reaching for less than 10 cents a pound
The International Biomass Conference & Expo tour features a brewery process water treatment plant and forest management activities
The qualification of whole tree chips as biopower feedstock would increase project development potential
The Indian Ministry of Science and Technology announced on March 30 the government's first test-run of 100 percent algae-derived biodiesel in a Chevrolet Tavera, a diesel multi-utility vehicle made by General Motors for the Indian automotive market.
KiOR President and CEO Fred Cannon addressed FY 2011 and the status of his company's first commercial plant, which is under development in Columbus, Miss. He also noted its next project will be located in Natchez, Miss., rather than Newton, Miss.
An academic research project led by ISU, coined Cenusa Bioenergy, is linking university researchers with enterprising farmers to create a Midwestern regional system for converting biomass grasses into advanced biofuels using fast pyrolysis.
The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota released a comprehensive white paper, available for free, detailing the extent and impact of the advanced biofuels and biobased chemicals industry and providing a roadmap for their continued growth in Minnesota.
Myriant noted that it intends to scale-up activities of its new bioacrylic acid in order to provide product samples to downstream customers by the second half of this year. Myriant also announced DaniMer will use its biosuccinic acid in biopolymers.
A new study highlights the important role market forces play in calculating the GHG emissions from woody biomass used for bioenergy applications.
OPXBio achieved a production milestone toward commercialization of its first target market offering, a biobased alternative to petroleum-derived acrylic acid called BioAcrylic, by demonstrating its fermentation process at the 3,000-liter scale.
Gov. Gregoire signed legislation to complete the biojet supply chain from research to market
A unique algae technology company has been named by the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association and the Freeman School's Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship as one of six finalists that will compete in the two business plan competitions.
AgEC commends several senators for their leadership on new legislation to reauthorize and mandatorily fund the most vital energy programs found in the current Farm Bill. It would serve as basis for the energy title as the new Farm Bill debate begins.
A study conducted by researchers from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service highlights the potential for alternative energy production at airports. The study findings were published in a recent edition of "Environmental Management."
According to information released by the company, the project with Prime Inc. would include the development of a biodiesel production facility that includes 250 acres of algae production. The budget for the project could be up to $100 million.
BioAmber Inc. has scaled up its hydrogenation catalyst technology under license from DuPont and converted multiton quantities of biosuccinic acid into 100 percent biobased 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO), tetrahydrofuran (THF) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL).
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory published a scientific paper that identifies key parameters for algal biofuel production using the GREET model, which models GHG emissions, regulated emissions and energy use for transportation fuels.
Three of the world's leading airframe manufacturers are setting aside competition in the market to stand united in an effort to seek collaborative opportunities with governments, biofuel producers and other stakeholders for aviation's green future.
Virent Energy Systems Inc. has successfully converted cellulosic pine tree sugar feedstock into drop-in hydrocarbon fuels such as biogasoline and biojet via its BioForming technology platform at its 10,000 gallon per year production facility.
Rivertop Renewables has successfully scaled its patented process technology from the lab to pilot manufacturing as the Missoula, Mont.-based firm contracted with DanChem Technologies to pilot production of its biobased glucarate-derived products.
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has released its 2012 Farm Bill platform, which provides suggestions to improve some federal bioenergy programs, including the Repowering Assistance Program and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
Volkswagen of America has partnered with biorefining firms Amyris Inc. and Solazyme Inc. to evaluate emissions reductions and demonstrate the performance of Volkswagen's TDI Clean Diesel technology. Volkswagen is supplying two cars to each company.
Avantium announced its second major partnership for its YXY technology to produce PEF bottles. Danone Research and Avantium signed a joint agreement for the development of PEF bottles for Danone, No. 2 worldwide in bottled water business.
The White House shouldn't underplay clean diesel's efficiency, power and ultra-low emissions.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division awarded a manufacturing contract to global specialty chemical firm and catalyst supplier Albemarle Corp. to complete its first biojet fuel production run based on biobased n-butanol provided by Cobalt.
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