There was no mistaking the aroma in the air at NREL, a tour stop during the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo, held April 16-19 in Denver. The smell was coming from rows of large blue bags of Iowa cornstover, feedstock for its pilot plant.
The Energy & Environmental Research Center in North Dakota has successfully developed and demonstrated a mobile, trailer-mounted biomass gasification technology that converts wood waste into methanol and can be transported to remote, off-grid sites.
Lee Enterprises Consulting CEO Wayne Lee offers his views on the role of an alternative fuels project consultant during project development. And while consultants come at a cost, the good ones should save clients more money than what they charge.
The companies began working together on Molybdenum-catalyzed metathesis of esters in January 2011. XiMo and Elevance researchers tested more than 40 catalysts using several natural oil feedstocks under various conditions to evaluate their efficiency.
The 2012 conference agenda, featuring five comprehensive tracks, is tightly focused on leading-edge developments in the biomass industry, from cultivation, harvest and storage to conversion technology, project finance and regulatory guidance.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and the EERC held a commissioning ceremony for a high-pressure dry solids pump that enables significant scale down of commercial gasification systems.
Trade associations representing many sectors of the biorefining industry, and other bioenergy stakeholders (100 organizations total), are taking action on behalf of their members to encourage a strong energy title be included in the next Farm Bill.
Researchers at UCLA, led by James Liao, have demonstrated a novel method for converting carbon dioxide within an intermediary, such as formic acid, into higher alcohols like isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol using renewable electricity.
Sec. Tom Vilsack announced 13 new biobased product categories eligible for federal procurement preference. Now more than 1,500 additional bioproducts will be offered for preferred purchasing consideration by all federal agencies and contractors.
Lee Enterprises Consulting Group announced the addition of California-based solar experts, Bob Parkins Renewable Energy Consultants, as its newest strategic alliance. The group is expanding from its biodiesel roots to encompass all alternative fuels.
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.
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