Failed Range Fuels plant under evaluation by new owner LanzaTech
February 22, 2012
Retailers respond positively to SD blender pump incentive
Two companies develop new technologies aimed at revolutionizing fermentation
Can biobutanol provide ethanol producers new paths towards diversification?
NUI Galway researchers will be responsible for the initial step of producing some of the biomass required for conversion into biofuel. Specifically, NUI Galway participants will cultivate macroalgae, or seaweed, at sea in a one-hectare pilot plot.
The people of Sutherland, Neb., are optimistic about the chances of a restart for Midwest Renewable Energy LLC, a 28 MMgy ethanol plant located west of North Platte, Neb.
The U.S. Coast Guard is working on a three-year project with researchers at the U.S. DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to test the potential for butanol to be used in the Coast Guard's smaller marine craft.
The Hart Energy Board of Directors announced Feb. 21 that the company's Executive Vice President and board member, Frederick L. Potter, has passed away.
A provision to grant the U.S. EPA more time to finalize and reevaluate the Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules for industrial boilers has been left out of the payroll tax cut extension bill that Congress has passed.
A producer and collector tax credit has improved economic sustainability in Oregon's biomass industry
The U.S. Midwest has considerable biomass energy potential, specifically in anaerobic digestion applications
One of Britain's largest nurseries has proposed an 8.5 MW combined-heat-and-power biomass plant at its New Milton, Hampshire County, location.
More than 400 professionals gather to talk biomass in The City by the Bay
Conference tour visits wastewater treatment plant, dairy digester
Conference general session hashes out bioenergy carbon cycles
First Biomass aims to be a global pellet supplier
A publically owned energy provider in Southern Sweden will use a circulating fluidized bed boiler manufactured by Global Power Group, a subsidiary of Sweden-based Foster Wheeler AG.
Biobased polylactic acid polymer producer NatureWorks and biosuccinic acid developer BioAmber formed a new joint venture company, AmberWorks, to commercialize a new family of biobased compounded polymer resin grades through NatureWorks' Ingeo line.
The undisclosed amount of USB funding will enable Biobent Polymers to accelerate solutions dedicated to assessing and solving several key technical challenges, provide production capacity refinements and significantly expand its biopolymer markets.
Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Bedford, Mass.-based Joule Unlimited Inc. to design and build its first demonstration-scale renewable fuels production facility near Hobbs, N.M.
February 20, 2012
The Union of Concerned Scientists is applying some energy to supporting ethanol. Well, not corn ethanol, I doubt they've made an about face there. But they are coming out in support of cellulosic ethanol.
As reports of ethanol plants temporarily idling or slowing production trickle in, Ascendant Partners Inc. told EPM that what the ethanol industry is currently going through is partially a normal seasonal cycle, and partially abnormal.
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