biomass processing News
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ENABLING BiomassTrade Platform
On January 2020, the Enabling BiomassTrade Platform, one of the project’s most important tools, was launched on the website. The Biomass Trade Platform is an online venue where biomass producers and biomass processers can meet to exchange currently not valorized organic biomass residues and organic by-products. It allows interested users to search and offer organic biomass residues and ...
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From waste to energy - Processing of biomass
This week we shredded biomass with our single-shaft shredder M600/1-400. Check out the video on YouTube: Shredding of biomass Due to the rising prices for fossil fuels, their decreasing availability and negative effects on the climate, the generation of renewable energies plays an increasingly important role. The focus is not only on wind and solar energy, but also on energy generation from ...
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Novozymes and MBI Partner to Win $2.5M DOE Award
On January 3, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it has awarded Novozymes and MBI up to $2.5 million to develop new enzyme-based technologies to convert corn stover into sugars for subsequent conversion into biofuels. Novozymes, a world-leading enzyme company, brings its depth of expertise in enzyme screening and development to the partnership, while MBI brings its innovative AFEXTM ...
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Researchers turn biomass into energy
US scientists say they are testing the viability of converting leafy or woody biomass into a commercially feasible fuel product. University of Nevada-Reno Associate Professors Charles Coronella and Victor Vasquez are working on the pretreatment portion of the biomass conversion process as part of a $4.6 million study funded by the Gas Technology Institute.'Biomass produces a dirty gas if it's not ...
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Industrial Biomass Separation
Fermentation products with high quality and high yield Industrial centrifuges for the efficient separation of biomass in fermentation processes. Fermentation processes are a key process step in industrial biotechnology. The chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries use fermentation to produce high-value products and active ingredients from bacteria, yeasts or fungal cultures. Advanced ...
By Flottweg SE
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Biochemical, Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass in Focus at UREM 2015, Day Two
Today (Mar 26, 2015) the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting learned that while biomass gasification for the purpose of making fuels and chemicals would be used to produce biofuel in the Nordic countries, and preferably dimethyl ether (bioDME), countries in southern Europe might prefer to use it to produce heat. Italy and Spain were mentioned as countries where the technology might be taken into ...
By Bio4Energy
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The Way To Estimate The Cost Of The Pyrolysis Plant
A pyrolysis plant is a huge investment so it is crucial that you shop around in order to get the best deal about the plant you want. It is important to have got a budget plus a cost estimate drawn up so you are ready to purchase your machine. You need to look into the different machines and spend lots of time looking for the ideal machine that you require.The pyrolysis plant is simple to use and ...
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DRI and University of Nevada work together on biomass conversion process
Researchers from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno are part of a US$4.674 million study by Gas Technology Institute to economically convert any leafy or woody biomass into a uniform, densified feedstock that can be easily fed into any thermal gasifer or pryolyzer for conversion into syngas, fuels and value-added chemicals.'This work will directly address the ...
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Talking biogas production in Europe
Europe is quickly becoming a hotspot for the biogas industry, and Sierra and our local French distributor Alto Instruments took advantage of that fact by exhibiting at BiogazEurope in France. Attendees learned about the entire biomass process, from the bio side of things (mass) to the energy side (electricity). Some trending applications featured at the show included: Biomass digesting ...
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Making alternative fuels cheaper
Original story at MIT News MIT chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost-effective. The compound, known as gamma-valerolactone (GVL), is attractive because of its versatility, says Yuriy Román, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and leader of the research team. It has more ...
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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for June 2011
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for June 2011. June 2, 2011 Lazard Capital Markets 3rd Annual Alternative Energy Investor Summit Biofuels: Convergence of Biotech and Energy New York, NY Presenter: Dan Cohrs, EVP & Chief Financial Officer Speaking Time: 3:45 p.m. EDT (Panel Discussion) June 6, 2011 Brean Murray, Carret & Co. 2011 Global Resources ...
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EUBIA promotes the platform BIOCOGEN 2030
Since last year, EUBIA has joined the consortium of the BLAZE project, aiming to realize a Biomass CHP system featuring low costs, low emissions and combining gassification and SOFC. As part of the dissemination and communication activities carried out for BLAZE, EUBIA has joined forces with Greenovate Europe (from the project Smart CHP) and has launched the stakeholder platform BIOCOGEN 2030. ...
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Screw Biomass Charcoal Briquette Machine
Screw biomass briquette machine is a kind of charcoal briquette making machine used to briquette biomass materials with stick shape. As the briquette is usually used to make charcoal, so it also has another common name charcoal briquette machine. Requirement For Raw Materials 1. Size: less than 5mm. 2. Moisture: 6-12%; If the moisture is less than 6%, the briquette will with lower strength as ...
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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for November 2011
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for November 2011. November 9, 2011 Advanced Biofuels Markets Congress 2011 The Race for Scale San Francisco, CA Presenter: Hunt Ramsbottom, President & CEO Speaking Time: 11:10 a.m. PST November 9-10, 2011 APEC Pacific Basin Economic Council/ East-West Center (PBEC/EWC) Conference Waikiki, ...
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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for January 2012
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for January 2012. January 4, 2012 Pritchard Capital Energize 2012 Conference San Francisco, CA Presenter: Hunt Ramsbottom, President & CEO Speaking Time: 9:40 a.m. PST (Presenter) January 17, 2012 Pacific West Biomass Conference and Trade Show Cutting Edge Thermochemical Conversion Processes: ...
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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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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for July 2011
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for July 2011. July 26-27, 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass 2011 Replace the Whole Barrel, Supply the Whole Market National Harbor, MD Attendees and exhibitors: Dan Cohrs, EVP & Chief Financial Officer and Harold Wright, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer About Rentech, Inc. Rentech, Inc. ...
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NREL and Johnson Matthey announce five-year collaboration on biofuels
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with Johnson Matthey, a global specialty chemicals company, in a five-year, $7 million effort to economically produce drop-in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from non-food biomass feedstocks, the federal laboratory announced today. The work will be conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development ...
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Fluor Honored with Innovation Award at World Biofuels Markets Conference
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it was awarded the Best Biofuels EPC Innovation Award at the World Biofuels Markets conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in late March. The award recognized Fluor’s commitment and innovation to the biofuels industry as an engineering, procurement and construction company. “Fluor is honored to receive ...
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Rentech Receives $136.8 Million in Connection with Closing of Rentech Nitrogen Initial Public Offering
Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:RTK) announced today that it has received $136.8 million in connection with the closing of the initial public offering of 15,000,000 common units representing limited partner interests in Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. (NYSE:RNF). Rentech now indirectly owns approximately 60.8% of the outstanding common units of Rentech Nitrogen and 100% of ...
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