Provivi is looking to revolutionize the foundation of pest control with natural pheromones – mating disruption – and to protect food supplies without toxic residues and empower the next generation to grow food more sustainably. Their patented technology reduces pest populations and minimizes crop damage with no side-effects to humans or beneficial insects like bees. […]
National Jet Fuels Combustion Program has a mission to help streamline the fuel approval process and has over 30 instituttions involved in their research and projects including 12 universities, 8 government agencies, 5 OEMs and several others. Med Colket, Retired Senior Fellow, United Technologies Research Center, gave this illuminating overview of NJFCP’s results of their […]
Mercurius Biorefining is developing its novel REACH process, which converts cellulosic biomass to hydrocarbons in the renewable diesel, aviation, and marine fuel ranges. Valuable by-products include bio-char and a bio-plastic monomer, FDCA. REACH (Renewable Acid-hydrolysis Condensation Hydrotreating) is a novel application of proven technologies which is both feedstock- and product-flexible. Sources of potential feedstock include […]
Highbury Energy Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Highbury was founded in 2009 on the premise that the thermochemical conversion of biomass to syngas is an […]
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Mid America Agri Products – Wheatland LLC’s registration to produce cellulosic ethanol at its ethanol production facility in Madrid, Neb. using Edeniq’s Pathway technology. The 48 million gallon per year MAAPW facility began using Edeniq’s Pathway technology this month. “We are thrilled that Mid America Agri Products […]
In Michigan, President Trump has directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the final determination of greenhouse gas standards (GHG) for model year (MY) 2022-2025 light-duty vehicles and, in harmony with the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to reinstate the midterm evaluation of the GHG and corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards […]
In Nigeria, Biofuels Nigeria Ltd. has signed an agreement with Kogi state for the offtake of a proposed $16.5 million 100,000 liter per day biodiesel plant. The company has been producing biodiesel from used cooking oil for more than a decade and has been working to develop biodiesel from jatropha. The government’s strategy to push […]
A US based company, Nebraska have come up with an interesting modification for the use of by-products of ethanol production. With emphasis on the fact that no binding ingredient was used, ethanol by-products are used to produce dry cattle feed pellets. One of the co-owners of Platte Valley Distillers, Tom Kruml, said the company could […]
In Australia, Scientists from the Australian National University, in a bid to help reduce the 2% global aviation contributes to man-made carbon emissions, have identified that Australia’s eucalyptus trees has the potential of producing jet fuels. “Eucalyptus oils contains compounds called monoterpenes that can be converted into a high energy fuel, and this high energy […]
It had been widely accepted that plants that are resistant to the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) were bad at coping with drought. This quality makes plants sensitive to drought but new studies have shown that quality could also make them cope with drought better. Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered ABA resistant […]
