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CELLULOSE ETHANOL IS READY TO GO: Iogen producing world’s first cellulose ethanol fuel
Untitled Document Ottawa Iogen Corporation announced today that it is producing the worlds first cellulose ethanol fuel for commercial use. Cellulose ethanol is an ultra-low CO2 emission fuel that can be blended with gasoline and used in cars today. Today marks the first concrete signal of a major change coming in the fuel market, said Iogen ...
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First cellulose ethanol demonstration in European vehicles
Untitled Document Bonn, Germany Shell Global Solutions International B.V. and Iogen Corporation, together with Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler, announced today that courtesy vehicles at the International Conference for Renewable Energies (ICRE) will be running on cellulose ethanol blended gasoline. Delegates to the ICRE will have the opportunity to ...
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BP and Verenium announce partnership to accelerate cellulosic ethanol commercialization
BP and Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM), have announced the creation of a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. The partnership combines a broad technology platform and operational capabilities in an effort to advance the development of a portfolio of low-cost, environmentally-sound cellulosic ethanol production facilities in the ...
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Kemin Biofuels Hires New Senior Field Technical Sales Manager
Kemin Biofuels hires Chemical Engineer Jim Kacmar Ph.D. as a Senior Field Technical Sales Manager as a part of its commercial team. Jim will focus on the company’s growing portfolio of enzymes and fermentation aids with emphasis on cellulosic ethanol production. “We are very excited to announce that Jim has joined our team. His broad industry experience coupled with rigorous ...
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Construction of First D3max Plant nears completion
Construction of the first commercial-scale D3MAX plant at Ace Ethanol in Stanley, Wisconsin, is nearly complete. “It has been a long haul since July of 2015 when we created D3MAX to commercialize the corn fiber-to-ethanol technology developed by BBI, to where we are today,” says Mark Yancey, vice president of BBI International and CTO of D3MAX. “Record snowfall in Stanley last ...
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Step forward for proposed world-leading ethanol refinery in Canada
Iogen Corporation's application for funding for Canada's first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol production facility has progressed to the due diligence phase, Canada's Environment Minister John Baird has announced. 'This is a good day for Canadians and our environment,' said Minister Baird. 'Thanks to our Government's allocation of $500 million for next generation biofuels, Canada is one ...
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POET-DSM to detail Project Liberty Progress at National Ethanol Conference
Steve Hartig, General Manager – Licensing with POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, will provide an update on the joint venture’s progress in bringing cellulosic ethanol production to commercial scale during a session Tuesday at the National Ethanol Conference. Hartig will take part in the session titled “Advanced Ethanol: Building Plants, Coming Online,” at 2:15 p.m. in the ...
By Poet, LLC
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Kansas Gets First U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
HUGOTON, Kansas, August 28, 2007 (ENS) - A Spanish energy company has selected the town of Hugoton in southwestern Kansas as the site of the first U.S. plant to turn corn stalks, switchgrass and other woody biomass into ethanol. Abengoa Bioenergy announced the $400 million ethanol project on Thursday. The facility will include an 85 million gallon per year corn-to-ethanol production plant as ...
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BP And Verenium Announce Pivotal Biofuels Agreement
Verenium to receive $98.3 million and retain its commercial enzyme business including validated technology platform to apply to all business segments including biofuels. BP and Verenium Corporation (NASDAQ: VRNM) today announced an agreement for BP Biofuels North America to acquire Verenium"s cellulosic biofuels business, including the Company"s facilities in Jennings, LA and San Diego, CA for ...
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POET-DSM hires Business Development Manager
POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels’ new Business Development Manager will be meeting with ethanol producers to discuss licensing options for commercializing cellulosic ethanol, starting at next week’s Fuel Ethanol Workshop in St. Louis, Mo. Kevin Potas recently joined the POET-DSM team and is responsible for outlining licensing options for the company’s turnkey cellulosic-ethanol ...
By Poet, LLC
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Cellulosic ethanol heads for cost-competitiveness by 2016
The cost of enzymes, pre-treatment and fermentation have fallen significantly, but cellulosic biofuels still have some way to go to reduce project capital expenditure if they are to be competitive with corn-based ethanol and with gasoline Ethanol manufactured from non-food “cellulosic” feedstock is on course to be cost competitive with corn-based ethanol by 2016, according to an ...
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Response to Lawrence Solomon Opinion piece in Financial
Facts matter – and Lawrence Solomon is missing some important ones. Canadian biofuels have been scientifically proven to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Corn ethanol generates up to 62% less emissions than fossil fuels, with cellulosic ethanol producing up to 87% less, and biodiesel – which can be made from used animal fats – by over 100% less emissions than ...
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Syngenta in cellulosic fuel collaboration to increase ethanol plant productivity
Collaboration to use new process to make cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber Technology to be marketed in combination with Enogen corn Ethanol yield per bushel of corn expected to increase substantially Syngenta announced today an agreement with Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies, LLC to license its ACE (Adding Cellulosic Ethanol) technology, a new process for ethanol plants. ACE ...
By Syngenta
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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-DSM Advanced Biofuels executives to speak at FEW, BIO conferences
Executives at cellulosic bio-ethanol leader POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels will present at two upcoming industry conferences in June: the 2013 Fuel Ethanol Workshop and the 10th Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. 2013 Fuel Ethanol Workshop, St. Louis James Moe, Chairman of POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, will participate in a general session panel June 11 at 9:45 a.m. CT on the subject ...
By Poet, LLC
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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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POET-DSM hiring team to run first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant
POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels is now hiring full-time, quality team members to operate its 20 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant, which is set to open in early 2014. Project LIBERTY is a cellulosic biorefinery under construction today in Emmetsburg, Iowa that will use crop residue (corn cobs, leaves, husk, some stalk) to produce 20 million gallons of ethanol per year, later ramping up ...
By Poet, LLC
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Project LIBERTY construction on target for startup in early 2014
Construction of POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels’ first commercial cellulosic bio-ethanol plant is on schedule to start up in early 2014, POET-DSM executives said at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop today in St. Louis, Mo. POET-DSM’s Project LIBERTY will use bales of corn cobs, leaves, husks and some stalk to produce 20 million gallons of cellulosic bio-ethanol annually, later ramping up to 25 ...
By Poet, LLC
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Protecting soils and producing biofuel with corn stover
Those lonely cornstalks—called corn stover—left behind in the fields after the grain harvest is complete could someday become valuable raw material for the production of cellulosic ethanol. In the meantime, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Doug Karlen is determining which portion of the plant would work best for cellulosic ethanol production. He's also studying the amount of ...
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POET Never Satisfied Scholarship application deadline Feb. 1
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Jan. 24, 2019) – Students who are passionate about changing the world for the better can get up to $5,000 to support their education through POET’s Never Satisfied program. Scholarship applications close on Friday, Feb. 1. POET, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, is offering scholarships to students enrolled in any two- or four-year post-secondary ...
By Poet, LLC
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