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Qteros vs Inbicon: Who's the Best?

Qteros vs Inbicon: Who's the Best?

August 14, 2011 |

Background: This is a first round, East Regional match-up between #4 seed Qteros and #13 seed Inbicon in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the […]

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Stover, wheat straw are sustainable, available, affordable, reliable as biofuels feedstock, says Inbicon

Stover, wheat straw are sustainable, available, affordable, reliable as biofuels feedstock, says Inbicon

June 23, 2011 |

In Denmark, Inbicon says its recent study shows that corn stover and wheat straw supply is dense enough in North America to be economical as a feedstock for its biomass-to-ethanol technology. Inbicon’s latest study, analyzing U.S. corn biomass collection practices, was done by Larry Johnson. Johnson’s findings detail the complex logistics of specifying, purchasing, harvesting, […]

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Biomass to Liquid Fuels: We Need Commercial Scale Gen 2 Success

Biomass to Liquid Fuels: We Need Commercial Scale Gen 2 Success

November 30, 2023 |

Doug Rivers, PhD, Lee Enterprise Consulting Special to The Digest Serious development to convert lignocellulosic biomass to liquid fuels and chemicals began in the U.S. following the 1973 OPEC oil embargo that left the U.S. with fuel shortages and long lines and rationing of gasoline at service stations. Since that time, significant technical progress has […]

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20 million gallon New Energy Freedom cellulosic ethanol project announced for Iowa

20 million gallon New Energy Freedom cellulosic ethanol project announced for Iowa

July 24, 2021 |

In Pennsylvania, New Energy Blue announced its New Energy Freedom biomass refinery on a 155-acre site near Mason City, Iowa. 275,000 tons of crop residue (cornstalks and wheat straw) will be locally sourced, then converted into 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol and 95 tons of lignin, a solid biofuel and natural binder. Half the […]

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Limited Biofuels M&A Activity in 2019, Stage Set for Potentially Busy 2020

Limited Biofuels M&A Activity in 2019, Stage Set for Potentially Busy 2020

February 18, 2020 |

By Bruce Comer, Founder and Managing Director, Ocean Park Special to The Digest Slowdown in North American biofuels Mergers and Acquisitions as thin margins and policy uncertainty hung over industry. Biofuels Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity in North America was subdued in 2019. Only four operating biodiesel, ethanol and advanced biofuels plants were sold during […]

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Verdezyne, Ave Atque Vale

Verdezyne, Ave Atque Vale

May 15, 2018 |

From Southern California the report has arrived that Verdezyne is winding down as a company, and today is the last day of operations. The low oil price environment has claimed another victim among the renewable chemical pure-plays. Why oil prices have doomed more chemical players than fuels In a nutshell, there’s no Renewable Chemicals Standard […]

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Sugar, sugar: Toray, Mitsui set out to build monster cellulosic sugar plant in Asia

Sugar, sugar: Toray, Mitsui set out to build monster cellulosic sugar plant in Asia

January 16, 2017 |

Last week we reported that Toray Industries has teamed with Mitsui to produce cellulosic sugars from bagasse leftover from the sugar production process at Thai sugar mills. The companies will invest up to $51 million to build one of the world’s largest bagasse-based cellulosic sugar plants. Producing 1,400 tons of cellulosic sugar annually that will be used […]

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Leaf Resources, Claeris form  JV to pursue Americas, Asia opportunities

Leaf Resources, Claeris form JV to pursue Americas, Asia opportunities

July 25, 2016 |

Australia’s Leaf Resources and US-based project developer Claeris, LLC have established a joint venture entity, Leaf Development, for the purpose of developing up to five renewable chemical projects that utilize Leaf Resources’ proprietary Glycell process. Leaf CEO Ken Richards told The Digest, “they have the right to five sites  with some exclusions for our existing […]

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New Energy Investors applies again for $125,000 grant to develop cellulosic plant

New Energy Investors applies again for $125,000 grant to develop cellulosic plant

July 12, 2016 |

In North Dakota, New Energy Investors has applied again for a $125,000 grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Committee for development work towards the proposed $150 million cellulosic ethanol plant in the Spiritwood Industrial Park near Jamestown that would use Inbicon’s proprietary technology to produce fuel from wheat straw and corn stover. The […]

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LanzaTech holds lead in Hot 50 in last week of voting; Novozymes, Amyris, DuPont, DSM, REG, BASF, POET, Algenol and Genomatica in the hunt. 

LanzaTech holds lead in Hot 50 in last week of voting; Novozymes, Amyris, DuPont, DSM, REG, BASF, POET, Algenol and Genomatica in the hunt. 

January 12, 2016 |

In Florida, early voting rankings were released today for 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, representing roughly 90% of the overall subscriber vote expected. Subscriber voting ends Friday, January 15 at 5pm ET. The Hot 50 rankings will be announced live at ABLC 2016 in Washington DC at 6pm on February 17, 2016. Below, we’ve […]

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