Tag: California
Oberon Fuels receives $500,000 grant from San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District for DME production
Tweet In California, Oberon Fuels has received a $500,000 grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to produce fuel-grade DME at its facilities in California. Working with its partners, Volvo Trucks in North America and Safeway, Oberon will provide DME produced from biogas for Safeway’s trucking operations. Oberon has developed a patented, [...]
Bioenergy legend Charles Wyman helms R&D rock stars in new book on cellulosic biomass pretreatment
Tweet In California, UC-Riverside professor Charles Wyman led the development of the book “Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals.” The book, published by John Wiley & Sons, contains 23 chapters written by experts from throughout the country. The book focuses on aqueous pretreatment of cellulosic biomass to promote [...]
Chevron Predicts Increased Gasoline Prices due to Ethanol Mandate
Tweet In California, Chevron Corporation’s CEO, John Watson, predicts that refiners may increase gasoline exports as a way to circumvent the Renewable Fuels Standard’s (RFS) ethanol mandate, causing gasoline prices to rise. Refiners complain that E15 adds to their costs and can only be used by 5% of U.S. cars, citing a November 2012 AAA [...]
U.S. Energy Initiatives Corp Receives Green Recycled Derived Biofuel Patent Assignment
Tweet In California, U.S. Energy Initiatives Corporation Inc. has received a patent assignment for the proprietary biofuel patent, Green Recycled Derived Biofuel (RDBF). Designed for automotive, aviation and stationary electrical power applications, the patented fuel underwent extensive university laboratory testing with high performance results.
“Biofuels will play integral role in California’s energy future, says new EBI study.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: JunkScience @Dianne93101 High Fructose Corn Syrup is instead of sugar because of cost, not politics. With ethanol, however, the opposite is true. LeNautilus Biofuels will play integral role in California’s energy future, says new EBI study nwgreene Wrong direction: FAO:By 2022 biofuels projected to use 28% of world sugar cane 15% vegetable oils & [...]
Cool Planet Moves Closer to Full Funding for Modular Biofuel Plants
Tweet In California, Cool Planet Energy Systems has closed on $29.9 million of its anticipated $100 million D-series financing to build its first commercial biofuel production facility. Its patented thermo-mechanical process uses small, modular facilities to take “the plants to the biomass instead of bringing the biomass to the plants.” The company currently operates a [...]
UC Berkeley and BP’s Energy Biosciences Institute Awarded First Biofuel Patent
Tweet In California, The Energy Biosciences Institute, a partnership between UC Berkeley and BP, has been awarded its first intellectual property patent entitled “Methods and compositions for improving sugar transport, mixed sugar fermentation, and production of biofuels”. The research team includes UC Berkeley faculty, University of Illinois faculty, graduate and postgraduate students, and BP scientists [...]
United Airlines and AltAir to Use Renewable Jet Fuel at LAX
Tweet In California, United Airlines will purchase at least 15 million gallons of renewable jet fuel from AltAir Fuels, a Los Angeles-based refinery. The fuel will be used for flights out of United’s LAX hub starting in 2014. AltAir Fuels is planning to retrofit the idled portions of its Paramount petroleum refinery to produce renewable [...]
Microvi and Aquatech Break Ground on Large Demonstration System at Aerojet Site in Rancho Cordova
Tweet In California, Microvi Biotechnologies, in partnering with Aquatech International, has been awarded a contract for a demonstration system for degradation of perchlorate at Aerojet General Corporation’s site near Rancho Cordova, California. The demonstration system, which was installed in April 2013, is designed to treat 175,000 gallons of groundwater per day containing perchlorate, a component [...]
VG Energy Enters into a Strategic Alliance with DAK for LipidMax Field Trials
Tweet In California, VG Energy, an agricultural biotech company, announced a strategic alliance with DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials using LipidMax to increase the corn oil yield. DAK Renewable Research headquartered in Brandon, South Dakota brings agricultural innovations together with investors. It is primarily focused on developing viable and cost-effective green energy solutions. DAK is [...]
