thermochemical conversion News
-
Sign Up For Field-To-Fleet Webinar: How Does Feedstock Type Affect Biofuels Conversion?
BETO's Thermochemical Feedstock Interface Project is presenting a Field-to-Fleet project webinar. The event will include a discussion of the project, its outcomes, and opportunities for partnership. Over the course of the multi year project, researchers have discovered how feedstock type affects various thermochemical biofuels conversion processes and quantified impacts of feedstock type on the ...
-
BETO Announces Updated Multi-Year Program Plan: November 2014 Update
The Bioenergy Technologies Office is pleased to announce the release of a newly updated Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP). This MYPP sets forth the goals and structure of the Bioenergy Technologies Office. It identifies the research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities the Office will focus on over the next five years and outlines why these activities are important to meeting the ...
-
New Renewtec Report On Small Scale Biosng
Within the LignoSys project the performance of three small scale (~10 MWth) thermochemical conversion routes for lignocellulosic feedstock to biomethane have been investigated. The three thermochemical options are: Indirect gasification through the Heatpipe Reformer (HPR) PyroCatalytic Hydrogenation (PCH) Indirect gasification through the WoodRoll® process The LignoSys final report ...
-
Peer Review Presentations Now Available Online
The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted the 2015 Project Peer Review from March 23–27, 2015 in Alexandria, Virginia. More than 380 attendees participated. During the event, 190 of BETO’s projects, representing more than $400 million in funding, were systematically reviewed by panels of subject-matter experts from industry, academia, and federal agencies. The individual ...
-
Gas to become the world’s primary energy source by 2035
The development of the natural gas infrastructure and market will remove two of the main barriers for introduction of renewable methane, namely the need for infrastructure and the public awareness of using a gaseous fuel. Natural gas and renewable methane are miscible in any proportion and it’s just to inject the renewable methane into the natural gas grid to reach all customers connected ...
-
Lab Discovery: Water Leads to Chemical that “Gunks Up” Biofuels Production
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have determined that water—a prevalent component of biofuel conversion processes—turns the pyrolysis oil component, phenol, into a highly reactive molecular structure that polymerizes, or “gunks up” the conversion process, thereby slowing down key chemical reactions. The PNNL study provides a thorough look at ...
-
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
-
Milestone Reached: New Process Reduces Cost and Risk of Biofuel Production from Bio-Oil Upgrading
Battelle—a nonprofit research and development organization that operates many of the national laboratories—reached an Energy Department project milestone to demonstrate at least 1,000 hours of bio-oil hydrotreatment on a single catalyst charge. Typically, it takes many catalysts to convert a bio-oil intermediate into biofuel, making the conversion process expensive. Battelle’s ...
-
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: ...
-
Biorefinery Development à la Bio4Energy Focus of Umeå Renewable Energy Conference
The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—which is in fact an annual conference, held in northern Sweden and traditionally attended mostly by researchers and industry representatives from Europe and the Americas—this year will give an overview of the latest research on biorefinery processes based on woody feedstock or organic waste. This UREM 2015 approach à la Bio4Energy was ...
By Bio4Energy
-
President Obama’s FY16 Budget Request Proposes Increased Funding for BETO
President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request was released Monday, proposing funding levels for the U.S. Department of Energy, including $246 million for the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). This budget would be a $21 million increase from BETO’s enacted budget for FY 2015 and would include an increase for all Office programs: Feedstocks, Conversion Technologies, ...
-
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
-
Fuel produced from sunlight, CO2 and water: an alternative for jet fuel?
Water and carbon dioxide (CO2) can be converted into ‘solar thermochemical fuel’ using energy from the sun and very high temperatures. A new study has analysed the production of this fuel and found that, under favourable future conditions, costs could be as little as €1.28 per litre, with close to zero life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although suitable as a substitute ...
-
Science & industry peers turn to NREL for Biomass Solutions
The biomass industry looks to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for solutions when it comes to lignocellulosic conversion of biomass to fuels. CELLULOSE editors recently announced that three NREL papers were in the top 10 for most requested articles of 2010. "These heavily cited papers highlight the impact that NREL researchers are having on the ...
-
Prof. Dr. Ingwald Obernberger, Managing Director of Bios Bioenergiesysteme GmbH, appointed as Conference General Chairman of EUBCE 2015
The event will bring the global biomass community to Vienna from 1 to 4 June 2015 and will attract experts and industrial exhibitors from more than 60 countries reconfimring itself as the most important International platfrom for dialogue between research, industry and policy in the biomass sector. “It is a great honor for me to invite you to the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition ...
-
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
-
Biorenewable chemicals: a review of technologies and feedstocks
Growing demand for biorenewable chemicals could lead to conflicts with food production and unwanted environmental impacts. Against this context, this study investigated different types of feedstock and conversion technologies. The authors recommend use of only non-edible feedstock alongside green and carbon neutral conversion technologies, such as algal fermentation. Concerns over dependence on ...
-
OriginOil Announces New Research Agreement with U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory
OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced the funding of a new research agreement with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Under the agreement, OriginOil and INL will collaborate ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you