his summer, the Algae Biomass Organization achieved its most important legislative priority: the approval by the U.S. EPA carbon capture and utilization (CCU) for power plants seeking to meet emissions reduction goals.
An Illinois Department of Agriculture-led tour begins Sept. 21, with stops at a variety of grain-related businesses around the state, including Marquis Energy LLC, a 140 MMgy ethanol plant in Hennepin, Illinois, and ADM's facility in Decatur.
Sending out a press release is like baiting a hook and throwing it in the water. Don't do it if you aren't prepared to catch a fish.
As the 2015-'16 heating season approaches and retailers begin to build pellet inventories, Pellet Mill Magazine dug into the complexities of operating a year-round facility that manufactures a seasonal product for its September/October issue.
The UK Green Investment Bank plc and John Laing Group plc have committed £48m ($74.4 million) of equity to a new £138m renewable energy facility in North East England, developed by Estover Energy.
USIPA's 5th Annual Exporting Pellets Conference opened in Miami with a cautious eye on the first conservative majority in the United Kingdom in nearly 20 years, and the potential implications for the industrial wood pellet industry.
This week, Oberon Fuels Inc. announced it's partnering with Ford and a conglomerate of companies and academia involved with the European automotive industry to develop the world's first production passenger car powered by fuel-grade dimethyl ether.
Focus on the Three Cs
September 18, 2015
December is our conversions, cofiring and colocation issue,
Vertimass LLC announced the company has chosen Technip to provide pilot testing, scale-up, and initial plant design for their technology for converting alcohol to renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel blend stocks.
Farmers Cooperative Co. announced a grand opening event will be held for a newly operational fueling station, located at 403 East South St. in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The new fueling station will offer a wide range of ethanol blends, including E15 and E85.
Upcoming U.S. Industrial Pellet Association 5th Annual Exporting Conference occurring during an exciting time for the industry. Seth Ginther says it's critical the industry remain flexible as it heads into a period of expansion and diversification.
Michigan State University and PHYCO2 have entered into a partnership to develop algae technologies produced from PHYCO2's patented concept that promotes algae growth and sequesters, or captures, carbon dioxide from power plant emissions.
The RFA expressed disappointment with a proposal by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to include ILUC emissions when calculating the carbon intensity of biofuels regulated under the state's Clean Fuels Program.
The National Trust, a charity dedicated to preserving the United Kingdom's most priceless historic sites, is including biomass heat in its ambitious transition toward renewable energy.
A sampling of producers offers a glimpse of the delicate balance between meeting yearly pellet demand and stranding precious capital.
The United Kingdom biomass heat sector is experiencing turbulent times, due to a near-perfect storm of market factors, subsidy review and fallout from dramatic growth in the industry since the introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive in November.
Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, announced today that Robert Shaw has joined its executive team as senior vice president and chief financial officer. He was most recently CFO of Southwest Oilfield Products.
Nearly two dozen top executives from the advanced and cellulosic biofuels industry recently sent a letter to President Obama regarding the U.S. EPA's RFS volume requirement proposal, four of whom spoke during a Sept. 16 conference call.
Just as corn ethanol has paved the way for ethanol from corn fiber and corn residue, so too will those feedstocks pave the way for energy crops down the road. The editor's note, written by Tom Bryan, appears in the October issue of EPM.
Nearly two dozen top executives from the advanced and cellulosic biofuels industry recently sent a letter to President Obama regarding the U.S. EPA's RFS volume requirement proposal, four of whom spoke during a Sept. 16 conference call.
Phosphorus-free cooling tower treatment offers viable alternative. This contribution appears in the October issue of EPM.
Within the next two years, Algenol Biotech LLC will have an 18 MMgy algae-to-ethanol plant in central Florida. The company and Protec Fuel Management LLC have entered into an agreement to sell the ethanol, initially in that state.
Researchers from Cardiff Catalysis Institute in Wales have developed a way to increase the yield of biodiesel by using simple catalysis to convert glycerin from the transesterification process into methanol.
Wood waste is the heating fuel of choice at the Bismarck State College Aquatic and Wellness Center.
Instead of setting a blend wall for ethanol, why not set a fossil fuel pollution cap, writes Mike Bryan of BBI International. This column is titled "Time to cap pollution" in the October issue of EPM.
Commercial-scale production and harvest of several annual and perennial biomass feedstocks is under way, paving the way for biofuels, biopower and biobased products. This article appears in the October issue of EPM.
MBI has received an innovative biomass pretreatment patent for its AFEX technology, which unlocks sugar in biomass and converts it into material that can be made into a source of cattle feed or biofuel or chemical feedstock.
As the consumption of wood pellets in European power stations matures, shipping efficiency is maximized by utilizing the largest vessels available.
Canadian farmers might one day grow sugar corn, or sweet corn, for a potentially huge alternative fuels market through a new project involving University of Guelph researchers. Sugar from sweet corn stalks is similar to Brazilian sugar cane.
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