The French government wants you there
Options are available for building the algae industry out
Growing nutrition demand leads straight to the source of omega-3s
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers transform animal wastes and algae into biocrude
A new Netherlands research park aims to overcome obstacles to commercial-scale algae production
The Making of a Super Plant
October 03, 2011
Is a lifetime of research and an established algae company enough?
South Dakota State University researchers develop an algae production system for use in space … and on Earth
Lignin biojet project wins DARPA funding
September 30, 2011
A researcher has been selected to receive a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to support the development of a technology to produce jet fuel from lignin from cellulosic ethanol production or the pulp and paper industry.
BTEC, RPG Receive Grant to Promote Biomass Heating and Cooling
By Rona Johnson
September 30, 2011
The BTEC and the Resource Professional Group were awarded a $70,000 grant to promote energy cost savings and environmental improvement of commercial buildings by teaching architects and biomass appliance manufacturers about wood energy.
Cutting-edge bioenergy projects earn ARPA-E funding
September 30, 2011
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $36 million to PETRO-based projects, but the awards have little to do with fossil-based oil. The projects awarded all fit under the Plants Engineered To Replace Oil category.
A research team at Texas A&M University has been studying the internal clocks of sorghum hybrids, and they may have found the key to a sorghum hybrid that can accumulate roughly three times the amount of biomass.
The production of advanced biofuels was one of many renewable energy topics addressed by speakers at the recent annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
U.S. DOE finalized a $132.4 million loan guarantee in financial support for Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas LLC's proposed 23 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant to be located in Hugoton, Kan.
Advanced biofuels company, Gevo Inc., announced it has been awarded $5 million to develop biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. It also said it had been awarded a contract to supply jet fuel to the U.S. Air Force.
Mixed picture for DDGS exports
By U.S. Grains Council
September 29, 2011
January-to-June DDGS exports saw a 16 percent increase in sales to Southeast Asia, despite a 11 percent loss in total export sales, reported USGS. A major factor is the drop in Chinese purchasing, well below the same time period last year.
USDA approves latest round of advanced biofuel payments
September 29, 2011
The USDA approved its latest round of payments to producers of advanced biofuels on Sept. 27, giving the green light for more than $76 million to be distributed to more than 160 producers in 41 states.
Pellets Look Promising
September 29, 2011
The theme for the December issue of Biomass Power & Thermal is 2012 Industry Outlook. All I could think about when developing coverage concepts was the promising outlook I see for 2012 in the wood pellet industry.
With the construction start deadline of the end of this year looming for the Treasury Section 1603 Grants for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits program, the criteria for that specification is still not clear to many applicants.
An 8-megawatt anaerobic digester that would run on a mix of food processing waste including sweet corn silage and potato and bean waste is proposed for the southeast Minnesota town of Le Sueur.
Renmatix has developed a novel biomass conversion technology called the Plantrose process that's capable of breaking down lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars for advanced biofuel and biobased chemical developers.
Morgan Keegan's investment banking managing director lays out items on what your project needs in order to get built.
Open Fuel Standard companion bill introduced in Senate
September 28, 2011
Nearly five months after the Open Fuel Standard Act was first introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Dick Lugar, R-Ind., have introduced a companion bill in the Senate.
Codexis to develop improved yeasts for sugarcane ethanol
September 28, 2011
Technology developer Codexis Inc. signed a joint development agreement with Raizen Energia S.A., Brazil's largest sugar and ethanol producer, to improve cane-based ethanol production using its “directed evolution� biocatalyst technology platform.
ZeaChem gets grant to expand demo plant for jet fuel
September 28, 2011
In Washington, ZeaChem Inc. is part of a coalition led by the University of Washington which received $40 million to develop biogasoline and renewable jet fuel production from hybrid poplar trees.
DP CleanTech will convert a coal-fired power plant in Thailand to run instead on waste wood and eucalyptus bark. The retrofitted combined-heat-and-power plant will provide 20 megawatts of electricity to a nearby bioethanol plant.
Presenters during a Sept. 28 webinar produced by the Biomass Thermal Energy Council and titled "Agricultural and Woody Biomass: Contrasts and Comparisons," provided a thorough review of the potential for using ag biomass for energy in the U.S.
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