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Tag Archives: cellulosic
DOE Awards Grants to Biofuel, Chemical Biorefineries
Last month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced 19 biomass projects that would receive renewable energy grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The list included 14 pilot, 4 demonstration, and 1 commercial-scale project, receiving a total of $561 million in grants ranging in size from $2.5 million to $81 million. The projects will be located in 15 different states. Additionally, Vilsack announced a $54.5 million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee Read More >
BIO Pacific Rim Summit: Status of Cellulosic Ethanol Commercialization
Qteros, ZeaChem and Verenium presented updates on their efforts to bring three unique cellulosic ethanol processes to commercial status. Qteros CTO Kevin Gray described how the company’s Q Microbe™ (Clostridium phytofermentans) enables a single step (consolidated bioprocessing) conversion and fermentation process for fuels. This approach can save as much as 40 percent in production costs. Qteros is currently scaling its technology up for a 100 liter laboratory bioreactor. ZeaChem President and CEO Jim Imbler outlined Read More >
Pacific Rim Summit — Biobutanol: Overcoming the Barriers
The biobutanol panel at the 2009 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy had three dynamic speakers from the biobutanol industry: Pat Gruber, CEO of Gevo, Inc.; Jay Kouba, CEO of Tetravitae Bioscience and Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt Technologies. Besides the individual company presentations the conversation concentrated on technology, risk, barriers and financing on the path to commercialization. Jay Kouba related to the audience that the business plan with the best technology is Read More >
Weekly Industrial and Environmental Bio Blog Roundup
This week we start off with a little Road Music, From Bluegrass to Switchgrass, from our colleagues at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. They’ve put together a nice set of bluegrass pieces. To listen visit their web site. Gas2.0 announces this week that BP could start selling biofuels in 2010, writing that, “BP has partnered with Verenium to bring a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility online next year to start bringing alternative fuels to a Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biopreferred, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, ethanol, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, Renewable Fuels Agency, Searchinger, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Road Music: From Bluegrass to Switchgrass
To get from here to there sometimes you need a little road music, and that’s just what the Biofuels Center of North Carolina is aiming to do. Earlier this week, according to Science in the Triangle, a RTI Fellows Symposium, “was held Monday and Tuesday at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill. Global warming and what role biofuels will play in the energy supply were two of the scientific challenges addressed Read More >
