Tag: Primus Green Energy
“Iron-oxidizing bacteria could be used to convert electricity into biofuel.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: PrimusGreen ”We are competitive at 25 million gallon scale,” says #Primus CEO in @bdigest franskoster070: Envisaged EU-US free trade talks: EU may also consider easing import restrictions on animal fat #tallow #biofuels RichardMawle: Iron-oxidizing bacteria could be used to convert electricity into biofuel pbndigital: Grove Farm seeks to use 10k Kauai acres [...]
The New Syngas: New catalysts, opportunities for advanced biofuels
Tweet Primus Green Energy looks to an improved syngas-to-gasoline process as a renewable fuel game-changer. Back in the 1970s energy crisis, the Brazilian government now (famously) marched down their path towards energy independence via ethanol produced from sugarcane – but it is less well known that the New Zealand government embarked on a unique program [...]
Everyday low (fuel) prices: Drop-in advanced biofuels for under $100 per barrel
Tweet Brent Crude trades this past week at a transorbital $109 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate at a suborbital, if high, $85). It puts the conventional wisdom that biofuels are too infrastructure incompatible and too costly to the test. Are they? Let’s look today at progress in developing infrastructure-compatible, drop-in advanced biofuels that cost less [...]
Hybrid, hyperlocal: 5 Paths of the New Fuel Economy
Tweet Wondering where biofuels are going in a world of low-cost natural gas and titanic battles over renewable fuel standards? We look at the latest on gas-biomass hybrids, and even further down the line at 5 pathways that may emerge as winners. In April, we took a look at falling natural gas prices and the [...]
Primus Green Energy shifts from bio-based to natural gas feedstock
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy has shifted the feedstock for its 5-barrel-per-day demo facility in Hillsborough to shale gas from wood pellets or miscanthus as originally planned. The company’s technology synthesizes feedstock into gasoline using an off-the-shelf catalyst and is meant to break even when oil is at $65 a barrel. More on [...]
Primus Green Energy starts pilot production of renewable gasoline, breaks ground on demo plant
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy reports they have produced their first sample of renewable drop-in gasoline through a proprietary combination of biomass conversion technologies that transforms herbaceous and woody biomass, in conjunction with natural gas, into high-octane gasoline. Primus Green Energy recently broke ground on an automated demonstration plant and is planning to [...]
Primus Green Energy to raise $50-$100M for renewable gasoline project
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy plans to raise $50 million to $100 million to this year to take its wood pellets-to-drop-in gasoline demonstration plant, which should be online by year’s end, to commercial scale by 2015. The process was first developed by Princeton University by its co-founder in 2007 who originally raised $40 [...]
Primus Green Energy pilot confirms renewable gasoline production potential
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy successfully proved its pilot scale production is capable of producing “drop-in” standard gasoline that achieves 25 percent longer runtime than regular unleaded fuel. During the company’s pilot scale production test its integrated solution of converting biomass to drop-in fuel was in continuous operation. The company plans to build [...]
Primus Green Energy looking at New Jersey for biomass pellet factory
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy is in talks with Plainsfield Township regarding the potential siting of a biomass pellet production facility that would use miscanthus and waste wood as a feedstock. The company already has an MOU with Jaindl Farms to grow 3,100 acres of miscanthus. Primus has applied for a $35 million [...]
Primus Green Energy expands New Jersey drop-in fuels facility
Tweet In New Jersey, Primus Green reports they have expanded its U.S.-based development facility in New Jersey, enabling the company to build its complete, integrated thermal-chemical process for converting biomass into gasoline. Primus plans to build its first commercial facility in Pennsylvania. The company will leverage the benefits of its partnerships with local farms for [...]
