In Iowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program (RFIP) yesterday awarded all of its remaining FY18 funds during its third quarter meeting due to rising retailer interest in offering higher blends of biofuels, The RFIP board awarded funds to 15 projects for retailers around the state to install the necessary equipment to offer higher blends […]
In California, Greenbelt Resources signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Georgia-based Duckweed DAYS. Duckweed DAYS is a new entity formed by entrepreneurs to commercialize and further the research carried out by the Andrew J. Young Foundation (AYF) focused on utilizing duckweed as a vegetable source of rich protein to fight malnutrition worldwide. The Duckweed Project […]
In Alabama, Auburn University is hosting the 2018 edition of the Thermal and Catalytic Sciences Symposium, October 8 – 10, 2018. TCS 2018 focuses on thermochemical biomass research and development and providing early career scientists and engineers an opportunity to present their research and interact with the senior researchers in the community. The conference organizers […]
In India, reports have surfaced in local media that the Indian Oil Corporation will acquire a 4% stake in LanzaTech for $20 million, in a transaction that values the #1 ranked company in the Hot 50 at $500 million. The investment will be made through the IOC Singapore Pte Ltd subsidiary. Last July, we reported […]
The unit is called TCat-8 but it really should be TopCat, befitting its position astride the world of bio-based catalytic pyrolyis. In the latest update, Anellotech completed two weeks of continuous operation of the seven-story tall TCat-8 pilot plant, just two months after completing commissioning. With the completion of the milestone, the company received an […]
“What would industrial progress be without natural rubber?” asks Rubber Journal Asia. “It’s hardly imaginable.” Listed as one of our four most important natural resources (the others being air, water, and petroleum and rubber), it is used as raw material for the manufacture of about 50,000 products, including tires and >400 medical devices –some are high value […]
Just a few years ago, one might spend $300 million, 10 years, and the work of 100 or more scientists to redesign a metabolic pathway, engineer that into a molecule and industrialize it, and measure that progress in dozens of scientific papers and patents written in a curious mishmash of jargon and hieroglyphics that only […]
“Toward A Thriving Bioeconomy by Mobilizing Our Nation’s Biomass Resources and Addressing Biomass Quality Challenges,” that the ambitious title of this illuminating presentation from the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Feedstock Supply & Logistics team. The focus, to fully integrate feedstocks into supply chain (multiple interfaces). reform raw biomass into high-quality feedstocks. use innovative technologies to […]
According to BIO, the global economic value today of the biobased economy – including industrial biotechnology, renewable chemicals and polymers, biofuels, enzymes and biobased materials – is $355.28 billion. And looking at the new USDA Indicators report and other sources, BIO estimates that the United States generates 58 percent of the global value of biobased […]
You probably knew him first as the VP for Biofuels at Chevron, and later the Program Manager for the DOE Biomass program. Paul Bryan’s a noted consultant on technology development and sometime lecturer in chemical engineering at Berkeley when not on the ABLC stage with the Due Diligence Wolfpack. “I apply my background in industry […]
