Tag: Velocys
Biorefinery 2015 – The Shape of advanced biofuels to come – Part II
Tweet In Part I of our special two-part series, we looked at changing financial structures. Today in part II, we look at a new set of technologies coming along that are redefining our ideas about scale and cost. As seen in part I of Biorefinery 2015: the first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now [...]
Biofuels Digest 5-Minute Guides released for Altranex, Muradel, NexSteppe, Oxford Catalysts Group, Velocys, SG Biofuels
Tweet Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, top development and commercialization, milestones for from 2010 through today, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing [...]
Oxford Catalysts Group, Velocys: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Company description: (includes Oxford Catalysts Ltd, based near Oxford, UK and Velocys, Inc., based in Plain City, Ohio). The Oxford Catalyst Group Develops of catalysts and microchannel reactor technology for the generation of clean fuels from both conventional fossil fuels and biomass Address: 115e Milton Park, Oxford OX14 4RZ, UK Year founded: 2001: Velocys, [...]
Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?
Tweet While companies pursue alternatives to Fischer-Tropsch technologies, Velocys is seeking to make F-T work economically with micro-reactors. In last week’s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies – companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL): “The two major problems with any of the XTL [...]
Codexis, Velocys, Cool Planet join Advanced Biofuels Association
Tweet In Washington, Codexis, Velocys, and CoolPlanet have joined the Advanced Biofuels Association, bringing its roster to 40 member companies. “Our members are demonstrating real world success every day by moving advanced replacement fuels from the beaker to the barrel, all in record time, without a lifetime of federally subsidized handouts,” said ABFA President Michael [...]
Oxford Catalyst Group to launch microchannel reactor technology in Brazil
Tweet In the UK, Oxford Catalyst Group is poised to deploy microchannel reactor technology in a 50 bbl/d BTL plant planned to be operational in Brazil by 2012. A joint venture between SGC Energia and an un-named partner, the plant will utilize a biomass-to-liquids process demonstrated at a pilot plant in Gossing, Austria. Velocys, the [...]
Oxford Catalysts Group, Velocys raise $33.8M for biofuels commercialization
Tweet In the UK, the Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate the Group’s ongoing transition from a research and development organisation to a commercial product company. In particular, additional staff will be hired to support its commercial and [...]
Velocys getting 4X productivity out of small-scale Fischer-Tropsch system
Tweet In Austria, Velocys has reported that its biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant, jointly operated with SGC Energia producing over 0.75 kg of Fischer-Tropsch liquids per literof catalyst per hour – 4 to 8 times greater productivity than conventional systems. At the TCS Symposium in Iowa this week, Velocys exec Jeff McDaniel said that the company’s pilot [...]
