Royalties, milestones and process design packages, up-front and back-end payments and equity stakes: for anyone who's committed long hours to testing and retesting, tuning or tweaking their advanced biorefining process and feels ready to bring it to the masses, there's only one thing to know-the language of licensing.
Under certain conditions almost anything is possible-just ask Compact Contractors of America LLC. The Utah-based company has developed a process that, at the right temperatures, dries an algal feedstock resulting in a powdered algae-based fuel.
The Velocys Inc. microchannel reactor features 900 microchannels-and none of these channels have anything to do with cooking, sports or news. The people of Gussing, Austria, a town known for its pioneering spirit on renewable energy production, are still watching, though.
In March, the USDA issued a request for eligible advanced biofuel producers, offering funding under the Advanced Biofuel Payment Program. The initial request said “eligible advanced biofuels must have been produced in a biofuel facility located in a rural area and whose owners met U.
Japan-based NEC Corp. has developed a biobased plastic manufactured by bonding cellulose with cardanol, an oil-like material derived from the shells of cashew nuts.
While most are well aware that volatility, price spikes and overall price increases have characterized the U.S. transportation fuel market over the past decade, the effect these factors have had on the domestic petrochemical industry may be less clear.
From a business standpoint, it's a match made in heaven: an idled, financially distressed industrial manufacturing facility devoid of working capital with a depleted workforce and depreciating assets teams up with an emerging advanced biofuel and green chemical technology firm eager to use the host facility to deploy its new platforms while leveraging existing infrastructure.
The Inbicon Biomass Technology Campus doesn't look like a campus. Instead of ivy-covered walls, a gray steel skin and Danish-modern design disguise the growth of scientific knowledge going on inside.
Montana State University researchers have discovered a new way to increase lipid-production in various algal strains by introducing bicarbonate, a low-cost and easy-to-use chemical similar to common stomach antacids.
Iowa State University's Christopher Williams was just trying to see if adding bio-oil to asphalt would improve the hot- and cold-weather performance of pavements.
Despite billions of dollars in financing, countless government incentives, and a graveyard of failed startups, global biofuel capacity represents only 3 percent of petroleum fuels, while biobased materials have only captured 1 percent of the market from plastics.
Mendel plants miscanthus on reclaimed mining lands
October 06, 2010
Mendel Biotechnology and Ohio-based coal mining company Oxford Resource Partners will team up for a pilot project that will experiment with growing Mendel's proprietary miscanthus varieties on Oxford's reclaimed mining lands.
Zeroing in on Power and Thermal
By Rona Johnson
October 06, 2010
I am pleased to announce that Biomass Magazine is now Biomass Power & Thermal. Although it may look like a subtle change on the magazine cover, it is an important transformation in content.As the . . .
Nicholasville, Ky.-based global animal nutrition supplier Alltech Inc. acquired a state-of-the-art fermentation facility in Winchester, Ky., from Martek Bioscience Corp.
University of California Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology is hosting a series of free events Oct. 14 to highlight the future of renewable energy and serve as a launch pad for its new Alternative Transportation Fuels Research Center of Excellence.
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp., the Vancouver, British Columbia-based distributed power company, plans to restart operations at its bio-oil production facility in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Are sales good news or bad news?
October 04, 2010
North Dakota's legacy ethanol plant, Alchem at Grafton was bought in auction this week for just under $600,000. The new owner is a Minnesota steel company that has bought other old ethanol plants and either sold or repurposed them. It won't be the first repurposing for the Grafton plant. At the very beginning, the plant was converted from a potato flaking plant into producing 3.5 MMgy of the ethanol in 1983. By the time it closed a couple of years ago its capacity was around 10 MMgy.
Election-Year Politics Could Impact RES
By Rona Johnson
October 01, 2010
If you haven't heard there's an election coming up, and for some reason lawmakers think they can best serve their constituents by doing nothing.
Join biomass peers at BBI International's Southeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show, Nov. 2-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. One of the featured panels at the event is Technological Pathways to Renewable Hydrocarbons.
Researchers at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service are developing an effective way to break down plant fiber using feruloyl esterases (FAEs), a special group of enzymes found in cow rumen.
Bend, Ore.-based InEnTec LLC was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as the winner of its 2010 Technology Innovation Award in Energy. The prize recognizes InEnTec's proprietary waste gasification system, called the Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM).
On Sept. 29, British Columbia-based Lignol Energy Corp. announced that the U.S. DOE has informed its U.S. subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Inc., of a modification to its cooperative agreement.
Omega-3 fatty acids are not only healthy to consume, but may also have a large role in a new algae-based biofuel. During a research screening process intended to sift through hundreds of microorganisms that could potentially aid in omega-3 fatty acid production, Ocean Nutrition Canada, a supplier of omega-3 fatty acid supplements, found a heterotrophic strain of microalgae that is 60 times more productive compared to other strains.
Cranfield University, a U.K.-based postgraduate institution, has formed the Sustainable Use of Renewable Fuels consortium, and several large aviation and transportation companies have signed on.
President Obama signed the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 into law on September 27. The legislation, also known as H.R. 5297, includes a provision to exclude crude tall oil from the definition of biofuel for the purposes of the section 40 tax credit for alcohol fuels.
On positive and negative messages
September 27, 2010
We got to talking in the office about reporters' biases. You see, in journalism school we were taught to report the facts and not introduce our own opinions unless it is clearly marked as an opinion piece. I would assume most reporters were trained that way as well. My guess is that there has been such an abundance of anti-ethanol reports that the mainstream, not-that-well-informed reporter just assumes it is bad. Turning that around will take a concerted effort.
Kingsport, Tenn.-based algal technology company Renewable Algal Energy LLC received $3 million in grant money appropriated under the U.S. DOE's Small Business Innovative Research Phase III Xlerator program for its project entitled "Algal Biodiesel via Innovative Harvesting and Aquaculture Systems".
Advertisement
@ Copyright 2026 - BBI International - All rights reserved.