Tag: drop in fuels
Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013
Tweet A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we reach the end of 2012? Not the intrepid USS Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and peer into the murky fogs of 2013. As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation [...]
Sapphire completes construction of the Green Crude Farm: algae biofuels heads for the next level
Tweet What is a Green Crude Farm, how does it displace petroleum via algae, and how does it operate? Today, the Digest goes in-depth with the world’s most unique farming system, cultivating a direct petroleum substitute as a crop. In New Mexico, Sapphire Energy announced that the first phase of its Green Crude Farm, the [...]
New $40 million funding announcement for military, aviation biofuels from DOE
Tweet DOE releases its latest $40 million funding opportunity, for aviation and military biofuels; lignocellulosic and algal feedstock components. In Washington, the DOE released details of a long-awaited funding opportunity announcement for advanced biofuels for aviation and military applications, titled “Innovative Pilot and demonstration-scale production of advanced biofuels.” According to the DOE, “the intent of [...]
Shell busts a move: builds drop-in biofuels pilot plant in Texas
Tweet While confusion reigneth on Shell’s plans for cellulosic ethanol, the company quietly builds a drop-in biofuels pilot plant in Texas, based on Virent’s bioforming technology. For some time, Shell watchers in the biofuels sphere have been hard pressed to determine exactly how the company will proceed in developing out its advanced biofuels strategy. After [...]
Drop-in biofuels pilot plant mulled for Washington state
Tweet In Washington state, partially in thanks to the $80 million, five year USDA grant to the University of Washington and Washington State University for biofuels research, a drop-in fuel pilot plant at WSU-Tri Cities is under development that is intended to be feedstock agnostic. The facility could be commercial scale in five years.
Researchers pioneer thermal deoxygenation as path to drop-in biofuels
Tweet In Maine, researchers at the University of Maine have developed a process that turn cellulosic materials and MSW into hydrocarbon fuel oil that can be used like a drop-in fuel, though it would need to be refined like any other fossil-based oil in order to meet emissions standards when used in vehicles. The process [...]
DOE awards $36M to six projects for drop-in fuels, chemicals
Tweet LS9, Virent, Genomatica, HCL CleanTech among the winners, as DOE fosters replacement of “entire barrel of oil” in latest funding round In Washington, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels [...]
Bracketology: Which 3 of 6 will win in NABC drop-in fuels consortium cut-off?
Tweet The NABC drop-in biofuels consortium now six months underway, approaches a Fall 2011 decision point. Three technologies out of six will advance. Who will win, who might lose out? Make your own picks in our Digest NABC Bracket Contest. Enter the Digest’s NABC Bracket Contest, here. One lucky winner will receive a free pass [...]
"Some biofuels are better than others": NZ strategic report published
Tweet In New Zealand, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report “Some biofuels are better than others: thinking strategically about biofuels” by Dr. Jan Wright was tabled in Parliament this week. The Commissioner writes: “It makes sense to focus on biofuel substitutes for diesel rather than substitutes for petrol. We run our trucks, tractors, and [...]
Solar liquid fuels: Most-Read Stories of the Year #6
Tweet Fuel from thin Air – or solar liquid fuels, as they have come to be known, proved immensely popular this past year. Profiles on Joule Unlimited (drop in fuels produced directly from CO2 and sunlight) and a report on a collaboration between JBEI and LS9 to re-engineer e.coli to produce renewable diesel directly from [...]
