Although American Process has been most closely associated with its complete cellulosic biofuels package — of late, the company has been much in focus because of its capabilities in producing low-cost renewable sugars. Thought it was a matter of making sugars and shipping them to an ethanol producer? Think again. In this case, there are […]
Although American Process has been most closely associated with its complete cellulosic biofuels package — of late, the company has been much in focus because of its capabilities in producing low-cost renewable sugars. Thought it was a matter of making sugars and shipping them to an ethanol producer? Think again. In this case, there are […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 1.47 percent to 62.20 as advanced biofuels gained. For the day, Abengoa (ABGB) rebounded 3.57 percent to $15.95, while Amyris (AMRS) soared 8.05 percent to $1.88. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) was up 3.98 percent to $2.42. Overall, advances led declines 7 to […]
Eight years after then-Senator Obama co-sponsored a bill in Congress calling for a 60 billion gallon biofuels target, President Obama’s EPA slashes the Renewable Fuel Standard targets to wimpy levels, despite ample production capacity, bumper crops, and foreign investors waiting to pump capacity-building dollars into the US economy. Then the EPA cancels the slashed mandate order, but doesn’t restore the original one. Leaving […]
Tell us about your role at Novozymes. I’m responsible for Novozymes’ biomass activities on the commercial side; I’ve been doing this for close to three years. My background is as an economist and investment banker. Novozymes began its efforts in this area in 2001 with more than 100 scientists and a lot of public affairs […]
Joule is advancing a production platform for Liquid Fuel from the Sun, expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Its transformative Helioculture platform directly and continuously converts sunlight and waste CO2 to infrastructure-ready diesel, ethanol or commodity chemicals with no dependence on biomass feedstocks, downstream […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Teck Guan Group is a progressive multinational (Malaysia, China, Indonesia) oil palm plantation, palm oil mill, and oleochemical company. We are now converting our massive amounts of agricultural residues into biogas and liquid biofuels. The only oil palm empty fruit bunch- (EFB) fed […]
There’s a good chance that the electric battery of the future will have biobased aspects to them — or may even be powered by a biofuel. How’s that again? The Digest investigates. If you’ve been following the long-standing competition between electric and fuel-powered cars, you’ll know the basics. That electric motors have better efficiency than […]
Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, a renewable diesel process, as well as a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. The joint venture will utilize forest and agriculture residues as feedstocks in a Rapid Thermal […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 2.23 percent to 61.30 as ethanol equities gained. For the day, Abengoa (ABGB) rebounded 4.90 percent to $15.40, while Green Plains (GPRE) soared 7.52 percent to $25.17. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) was up 5.43 percent to $2.33. Overall, advances led declines 13 […]
