BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. has changed its name to BlueFire Renewables Inc. According to the company, the new name and rebranding more clearly illustrates its capability to produce a variety of biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel, bio jet fuel and drop-in fuels.
Although it will not solve climate change entirely, biochar has the potential to mitigate up to a tenth of current greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study.
The U.S. DOE is giving renewable energy projects six more weeks to apply for loan guarantees by extending its application deadline for the July 2009 energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies solicitation, to Oct.
Englewood, Colo.-based isobutanol technology developer Gevo Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire a 22 MMgy corn-based ethanol plant owned and operated by Agri-Energy LLC near Luverne, Minn.
On August 13 the U.S. EPA published its proposed Inventory Update Reporting Modifications rule in the Federal Register, beginning a 60-day public comment period.
Compact Contractors of America LLC, a Utah-based company developing dry algae aviation fuels, recently announced it has sold samples of its powdered algae-based jet fuel to the U.
The Northeast Biomass Conference & Expo in Boston Aug. 4-6 featured an afternoon of biorefining panels that covered biomass conversion approaches and feedstock challenges.
The commitment to cellulosic ethanol continues to gain ground in different ways. Royal Dutch Shell plc has reinvested in an ongoing project, Pacific Ethanol Inc.
At the Advanced Biofuels Workshop June 14 in St. Louis, a panel discussion took place pertinent to the many biodiesel facilities in the U.S. that are idled or distressed due to the long-lapsed biodiesel tax credit.
Steve Howell, technical director for the National Biodiesel Board and president of the Marc-IV consulting firm, said he was at the Advanced Biofuels Workshop's Drop-In Biofuels panel to present what “infrastructure-ready” biofuels means to him and the biodiesel community.
The Iowa Power Fund board voted July 1 to provide San Francisco-based Syngest Inc. with $2.5 million for its planned biomass-to-ammonia plant in Menlo, Iowa.
FRB signs LOI for $250M green diesel plant
August 31, 2010
Flambeau River Biofuels (FRB) has executed a letter of intent to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) the largest second generation “green diesel” plant in the United States at an existing pulp and paper mill in Park Falls, Wis.
LanzaTech produces chemical building blocks
August 30, 2010
Posted Aug. 30, 2010 LanzaTech NZ Ltd., a New Zealand-based producer of fuels from waste gas, has successfully produced a building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels.
Big dreams are coming true in California, just ask biobutanol developer Cobalt Technologies. After signing a partnership agreement with the global engineering and project manager Fluor Corp.
Wyoming-based KL Energy Corp. (KLE) has signed an agreement to collaborate with major Brazilian energy firm Petrobras to develop and commercialize cellulosic ethanol technology for sugarcane bagasse feedstock.
A biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant featuring a Fischer Tropsch microchannel reactor capable of 4-8 times greater productivity compared to conventional units is now operating in Gussing, Austria.
LanzaTech, a waste gas to fuels producer based in New Zealand, has successfully produced a building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels.
Wisconsin-based Cellulose Sciences International has received a $150,000 Small Business Innovation & Research grant from the National Science Foundation to put toward scale-up and optimization of its proprietary cellulose-conditioning pretreatment.
LanzaTech, a waste gas to fuels producer based in New Zealand, has successfully produced a building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels.
Posted August 30, 2010, at 11:50 a.m. CST LanzaTech NZ Ltd., a New Zealand-based producer of fuels from waste gas, has successfully produced a building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels.
The Northeast Biomass Conference & Expo Aug. 4-6 at Westin Copely Place in Boston will feature a biorefining panel titled, “Cutting-Edge Conversion Approaches: Breakthroughs in Biorefining.
Two U.S.-based developers of algal biofuels technology have reached funding milestones, one by filing to go public, and the other by securing more than $50 million in financing.
Broomfield, Colo.-based cellulosic ethanol and biochemical company Range Fuels Inc. has successfully produced the first batches of cellulosic methanol at its facility near Soperton, Ga.
Meeting current and looming emissions and air quality control requirements-on both state and federal levels-may prove to be a daunting challenge. The Southeast Biomass Conference & Expo being held Nov.
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