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Cobalt, Mercurius, BioProcess Algae, Frontline land $17.7M in military biofuels grants
Tweet Pilot-scale biorefineries for drop-in military diesel, jet fuel the focus of the DOE’s latest grant round. In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced up to $17.7 million in grants to four pilot-scale biorefinery projects aimed at military-spec hydrocarbon fuels. Cobalt Technologies, Mercurius Biofuels, BioProcess Algae and Frontline BioEnergy were selected for negotiation. Recipients [...]
LS9 expands operations in Florida
Tweet In Washington DC, at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, LS9 CEO Tjerk de Ruiter announced the expansion of its operations at the Company’s Okeechobee, Florida demonstration facility with a successful customer trial. The Florida facility was initially designed, and has been used, to scale-up LS9′s fermentation technology and generate large commercial samples for testing [...]
LS9 boosts its capacity by running pilot Cobalt Technologies
Tweet In Florida, LS9 Inc. announced the expansion of its operations at the company’s Okeechobee after successfully completing a pilot production run at its Florida plant for another advanced bioproducts company, Cobalt Technologies. Fermentation scale-up is an expensive proposition and requires the proper facilities and expertise to make an effective run. The need to run trials is [...]
C4 explosion: Cobalt Technologies is the latest four-carbon biobased player to expand capacity
Tweet Cobalt expands into Asia and butadiene with two new strategic investors. What’s up with the C4 molecules? Why is everyone building capacity? In California, the Digest has learned that Cobalt Technologies is announcing this morning a strategic relationship with two prominent, but undisclosed, Asian chemical companies for the development of butadiene from a range [...]
Oxygen for High Altitudes: 17 Biofuels ventures raise $434M in equity
Tweet Despite the sluggish economic recovery and questions over policy stability — biofuels ventures have been busy raising lots of capital. In the past 6 months, $434 million. Who got what, where, when and why? As any mountaineer knows — above 25,000 feet you hit the “death zone” – where oxygen is a must, now [...]
Biorefinery 2015 – transformations in biofuels costs, financing
Tweet The first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now reaching completion. But what does the next wave look like – from technology to financing? We explore the trends in our two-part Biorefinery 2015 series. It’s a remarkable story of expansion. According to a report from Tristan R. Brown and Robert C. Brown at the [...]
Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?
Tweet As cellulosic biofuels technologies start to deploy — critics and friends ask, 36 billion gallons by 2022, can it still be done? Yep, there’s a pathway. In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that [...]
Flying the Aussie BioSkies
Tweet What’s up with Australia and aviation biofuels? The kangaroos are flying, for sure, and perhaps only feedstock woes could get in the way. In the world of biofuels there is no sector as active as military and aviation biofuels in terms of willing customers. At the Low Carbon Fuel Conference, held over two days [...]
The Biorefinery Project of the Future — Today
Tweet A major biomass deal between Pacific Ethanol and Chromatin heralds a trend towards advanced biofuels in the US ethanol fleet. Is the Bioenergy Project of the Future here? Who’s doing what, where? 5 Paths to Advanced Biofuels in play now. As we highlighted this week in the Digest, Chromatin and Pacific Ethanol announced that [...]
The Dew Drop Inn — Who’s Dropping in What in Biofuels?
Tweet B20, B5, B100, E10, E22, E15, M50, E85, Bu12.5, HEFA 50. Is your head swimming with acronyms and blend ratios? Who exactly is making drop-in fuels, and what does that mean? In the world of alternative fuels and transport, there are two types of technologies that are highly controversial: 1. Specifically to biofuels, fuels [...]
