biorefinery News
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SPCI organised World Biorefinery for the first time at World Bioenergy 2012
The pulp and paper industry has excellent opportunities to develop further. In recent years the industry has invested in product development and some companies have added new ways to use the timber at their mills due to the current difficult market situation. During the World Biorefinery Conference from 29 to 30 May, corporate executives and researchers presented the very latest results of ...
By Elmia AB
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This Spring in Bio4Energy
Bio4Energy is lucky to have fantastic researchers. Having barely concluded the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—which international conference this year had a focus on biorefinery processes—and received the thumbs up from several speakers and other participants, they are back in their laboratories and lecture halls inventing new fuels, chemicals and materials from bio-based ...
By Bio4Energy
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Congratulations on the completion of the biorefinery in Nevada, Iowa!
During an investor call, Ellen Kullman, chairwoman and CEO of DuPont, provided a brief update of the company’s cellulosic ethanol initiatives. “In biobased industrials…we have mechanically completed our Nevada, Iowa, biorefinery, which will open later this year and will be among the largest commercial-scale cellulosic biorefineries in the world” Catalytic Products ...
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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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Where lies the future for biorefineries?
The world’s focus and future market development will promote energy and resource efficient products. Biorefineries can reignite biomass based industries and unlock the markets for green chemicals, products and fuels. The last session in the Transport theme is therefore dedicated to biorefineries extending the scope to also include complementary products, other then biofuels for transports. ...
By Elmia AB
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ZeaChem Welcomes Senator Ron Wyden to Boardman, Ore., Biorefinery
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today welcomed U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., to see the facility’s progress first-hand and discuss opportunities for the biorefining industry in Oregon. In January 2012, ...
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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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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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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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ZeaChem Expands Board of Directors and Raises $19 Million to Advance Commercial Production
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has added two independent members to its Board of Directors, Ross Pillari and Charles “Charlie” Shaver. Mr. Pillari spent 35 years with BP, including as chairman and chief executive officer of BP America Inc. He ...
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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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ZeaChem Begins Core Facility Operations at Biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has completed construction of the core facility for its new integrated demonstration biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. Construction of this core project was completed on schedule, with no lost time or reportable accidents, ...
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ZeaChem Selected for $4.6 million Award from California Energy Commission to Develop Renewable Low-Carbon Biofuels
ZeaChem Inc., developer of highly-efficient biorefineries, announced today it has been selected as a proposed recipient of a $4.6 million award from the California Energy Commission for the development of a pilot plant at its Menlo Park, Calif. research and development (R&D) facility to scale up the company’s C3 (three-carbon atom) product platform for advanced biofuel production. The ...
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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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Swedish Energy Minster Expresses Concern about EU Attitude to Biofuels at Visit to Umeå, Bio4Energy
This week the Swedish government minister for energy, the Social Democrat Ibrahim Baylan, told biorefinery researchers in northern Sweden that he was "concerned" about the general attitude of the European Union towards biofuels, and that he would try to make his colleagues in the EU see that forestry in northern Sweden was "not about deforestation". Baylan, who is an Umeå University ...
By Bio4Energy
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Valri Lightner, biomass program Manager at the U.S. Department of energy (DOE)
Will give an overview of the US Biofuels efforts. She says: 'The U.S. Department of Energy is actively pursuing the Obama Administration’s strong initiatives to build a diverse mix of clean, domestic energy sources to meet national climate and security goals. According to Lightner, Biofuels are a key piece of the solution for the transportation sector. 'The Department is applying its expert ...
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Industrial Biorefineries Conventional Biorefining Status, Advanced Biorefining Technology Assessments, Policy Issues, Stakeholder Analysis, and Global Market Forecasts for New Biorefinery Construction
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Industrial Biorefineries Conventional Biorefining Status, Advanced Biorefining Technology Assessments, Policy Issues, Stakeholder Analysis, and Global Market Forecasts for New Biorefinery Construction ...
By ReportLinker
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Bio4Energy Students Analyse Pilot Facilities in Sharpened Biorefinery Pilot Research Course
The contents of the key generic course in the Bio4Energy Graduate School, Biorefinery Pilot Research (BPR), have been made considerably sharper in terms of training students in considering each biorefinery pilot or demonstration facility in the Bio4Energy cluster as an innovation system. Or so it would seem as the second edition of BPR concluded with a final seminar where PhD student researchers ...
By Bio4Energy
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ZeaChem Welcomes Governor Kitzhaber to Boardman, Ore., Biorefinery
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today welcomed Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on a tour of its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., and announced it has begun construction on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded project for the production of ...
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ZeaChem Adds Nancy Buese as Third Independent Board Member and Audit Chair
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, has added Nancy Buese as the third independent board member and audit chair on its Board of Directors. Buese brings 20 years of financial leadership to the ZeaChem Board. She currently serves as senior vice president and chief financial officer of ...
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