UOP, Eni update on the complete conversion of Eni’s Venice refinery to renewable diesel. Why is renewable diesel getting traction – and where, and when? Most of the action and controversy on biofuels, advanced or otherwise, occurs on the gasoline side of the equation. Food vs fuel, blend walls, the “where are the gallons?” problems […]
In Florida, Safetek introduced their full line of Bio+Green Crystals cleaning products. Safetek describes their cleaning products as made using a proprietary process similar to the nutraceutical or pharmaceutical industries. The Bio+Green Crystals Compounds can be made up of bio based, plant and mineral derived surfactants. According to the company, “Our purification or crystallization process […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 1.16 percent to 60.72 as advanced biofuels tumbled. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) dropped 5.30 percent to $2.68 , while Gevo (GEVO) plunged 10.47 percent to $1.71. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) shed 6.63 percent to $6.90 despite a promising start-up of production. […]
Brent Crude trades this past week at a transorbital $109 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate at a suborbital, if high, $85). It puts the conventional wisdom that biofuels are too infrastructure incompatible and too costly to the test. Are they? Let’s look today at progress in developing infrastructure-compatible, drop-in advanced biofuels that cost less than […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Address: 2505 N. Shirk Road, Visalia, CA 93291 Year Founded: 2008 Company description: Edeniq integrates patented mechanical and biological processes to efficiently and cost-effectively break down plant material into sugars that become sustainable fuels and/or industrial materials. Edeniq’s patent portfolio includes innovation in biological catalysts plus mechanical processes that help meet the industry-wide challenge of […]
Address: 10877 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Year founded: 1981 Company description: The Company’s Rentech-SilvaGas and Rentech-ClearFuels biomass gasification process can convert multiple biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) for production of renewable fuels, power and chemicals. Combining the gasification process with Rentech’s application of syngas conditioning and clean-up technology and the patented […]
In Washington, rumors abound that US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu may step aside shortly for a new Secretary – with President Obama seeking a number of cabinet-level changes to inject fresh faces and thinking into his Administration as he heads into his second presidential term. Are the rumors true? Only time will tell – […]
In Canada, Icelandic company SIF Cosmetics announced the Canadian launch of their BIOEFFECT Skin Care product line. The product line was developed in collaboration with leading specialists in biochemistry and dermatology, and is produced by copying the human EGF gene into barley with biotechnology. More on the story.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.47 percent to 61.43 as advanced biofuels retreated. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) dropped 3.74 percent to $2.83, while Biox (BX.T) sunk 9.09 percent to $0.50. Among other equities, KiOR unexpectedly fell 3,52 percent to $7.39. Overall, declines led advances 2 to 1 […]
