Biorefineries News
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DOE EERE Announces Workshop on Tools to Accelerate Scaling-Up of Biobased Fuels
On June 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced that it will be hosting a public virtual workshop titled “Workshop on Predictive Models and High Performance Computing as Tools to Accelerate the Scaling-up of New Bio-Based Fuels.” The goal is to determine if predictive models and high performance computing can and ...
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Svebio presents proposals to stimulate Swedish biorefinery investments
The Swedish Bioenergy Association (Svebio) has presented a series of robust steering instrument proposals that it says would enable Sweden to realize the potential of forest residues as feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels for transportation including shipping and aviation. Several Swedish companies are developing technologies for converting forest raw materials into high-quality ...
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Alginor project funded by the EU
In July 2018 we received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation pgrogramme under grant agreement No 830698. Of the 1658 applications that were submitted for the SME programme phase 2 only 65 proposals received funding, Alginor among them. The programme has a success rate of less than 4 %, which is why it is often referred to as the “champions ...
By Alginor ASA
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Steeper Energy contributes paper to HTL Issue of Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Copenhagen Denmark – June 16, 2017 – Steeper Energy Aps, a Danish-Canadian clean-fuel company, has contributed a paper titled “Fundamentals of Hydrofaction™: Renewable crude oil from woody biomass” to the December 2017 Issue 4 (vol. 7) of Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. The issue is edited by Dr. Frédéric Vogel and is focused on Hydrothermal ...
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BIO Releases Report On Advancing The Biobased Economy
On September 7, 2016, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) released the report "Advancing the Biobased Economy: Renewable Chemical Biorefinery Commercialization, Progress, and Market Opportunities, 2016 and Beyond." This report documents substantial growth in the renewable chemical industry, and covers domestic policies impacting renewable chemical commercialization. Policy drivers ...
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Australian Renewable Energy Agency Providing $2.4 Million To Support Biorefinery Development
On June 23, 2016, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced $2.4 million in funding to support the development and construction of a biocrude and biofuel laboratory in Queensland. The $5.3 million project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019 and will be Australia's first biorefinery producing renewable diesel and jet fuel from plant material. Australian companies ...
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GTI: Celebrating 75 Years of Innovative Energy Solutions
Today, Gas Technology Institute (GTI) celebrates an important milestone—our 75th anniversary. As a leading research, development, and training organization addressing global energy and environmental challenges, GTI has spent the last seven+ decades developing high-impact technologies and providing technical insight to unlock the potential of natural gas and other energy ...
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DOE Providing $10 Million For Six Projects To Advance Bioenergy Development
On May 16, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that up to $10 million in funding is being given to six projects that are creating innovative solutions to advance bioenergy development. The work will support the Bioenergy Technologies Office's (BETO) goal of developing non-food biomass competitive biofuels with reduced technical investment risks. The selected projects are: ...
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UCR Provides More Detail On Biomass Based Fuel And Chemical Project That Received 1.3 Million
On May 11, 2016, the University of California, Riverside (UCR) provided more information about the project that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is funding with $1.3 million as part of the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI). UCR received $1.3 million in funding to create biofuels and chemicals from waste plant materials. Ford Motor Company Chair in Environmental ...
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BETO Presents The 2016 Multi-Year Program Plan With A Focus On The Bioeconomy And Algae
On March 28, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced the 2016 update of the BETO Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP). The MYPP helps BETO coordinate its activities and details BETO's activities in the coming years. The latest MYPP includes three major changes: A revised vision statement, "Developing and demonstrating transformative and ...
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BETO Requests Information On Operational Challenges Of Biorefineries
On March 10, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced a Request for Information (RFI) on integrated biorefinery optimization. The RFI covers information on the technical and financial challenges that biorefineries run into in order to run continuously and reliably. BETO is primarily ...
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NREL to Collaborate with Small Clean Energy Businesses as Part of DOE Pilot Program
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help the first group of small clean energy businesses advance their products under the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot launched last July by DOE. NREL is one of nine national laboratories participating in the pilot, which will fund up to $20 million in vouchers to eligible small businesses. To overcome the ...
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Save the date! 24th EUBCE: 6-9 June 2016, Amsterdam
1080+ abstracts submitted for presentation from3000+ authors and co-authors from 79 countries 6 plenary sessions 71 oral and visual sessions 256 scientific oral presentations and 500+ visual presentations Parallel Events: Workshops 800+ expected participating organisations. List of participating organisations (in progress) 2000+ expected international delegates ranging from industry, ...
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Renewable Fuels from Algae Boosted by NREL Refinery Process
A new biorefinery process developed by scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has proven to be significantly more effective at producing ethanol from algae than previous research. The process, dubbed Combined Algal Processing (CAP), is detailed in a new paper by NREL's Tao Dong, Eric Knoshaug, Ryan Davis, Lieve Laurens, Stefanie Van Wychen, Philip ...
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POET increases production capacity by 25 million gallons
Three POET biorefineries will expand ethanol production capacity by a combined total of 25 million gallons in 2016. POET Biorefining – Hanlontown (Iowa), POET Biorefining – Hudson (South Dakota) and POET Biorefining – Caro (Michigan) each filed separate expansion permits within their respective states and will soon be producing at the level their RIN permit allows. “POET ...
By Poet, LLC
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Omnibus Spending Bill Signed Into Law Includes Extension of Biofuel Tax Credit
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the omnibus spending bill, or Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, into law. The $1.1 trillion spending bill includes the retroactive extension of the $1 per gallon tax credit for biodiesel and renewable diesel blenders through December 31, 2016, while extending the second-generation biofuel production credit through January 1, 2017. In addition to ...
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Bionomic Gas Scrubbing Equipment Used To Clean Reformer Generated Syngas As Part Of Rentech-Clear Fuels Technology Inc. Biorefinery Demonstration Project
Bionomic Industries, a worldwide leading manufacturer of cutting edge syngas purification technologies, has recently provided gas cleaning equipment as part of a 20 ton per day demonstration scale Rentech-Clear Fuels gasifier at the Rentech Technology Center (RETC) in Colorado. Integrated with Rentech's existing Product Demonstration Unit (PDU), which consists of Rentech's Fischer-Tropsch Process ...
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New Method for Conditioning Biomass from Conifers Makes for Cost-efficient Ethanol Production
Bio4Energy researchers together with industrial partners have invented a cost-efficient method designed to facilitate the production of fermentation products such as ethanol from cellulose from wood or woody residue from spruce and pine. The corresponding technology has been verified at Biorefinery Demonstration Plant at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The new results are part of a package of ...
By Bio4Energy
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Discovery of Mechanism behind Organisation of Plant Cell Wall Raises Hopes for Biorefinery Development
Plant biologists have long tried to come up with a method for making trees produce large amounts of easily extractable biomass for making renewable products such as biofuels and "green" chemicals. Indeed, international conferences such as Lignin 2014 have seen scores or well-respected scientists—biologists and chemists alike—brood the reasons why successful attempts to increase ...
By Bio4Energy
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EUBCE 2016: the Call for Papers is open - Submit your abstract by 30 October 2015
The Conference covers the entire biomass value chain, including research, technologies and applications and continues the successful format from previous years, addressing topics from biomass itself to conversion processes for biofuels, bioenergy and biorefineries, to industrial applications of research results and to political policies and impacts on the environment. At the same time, we've used ...
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