In Wisconsin, US Oil plans to develop a $3 million, 1,000-foot pipeline project that would transport ethanol across the Great Lakes connecting its oil tank yard to its liquid cargo pier at the Port of Milwaukee. The project was approved by the public works committee of city’s common council and now goes to the council […]
In Wisconsin, Marquis Ethanol has the opportunity to be a good neighbor by working with its host community to secure a $500,000 state Department of Natural Resources grant to build a new well that would supply safe, clean drinking water for residents. An agreement with the company needs to be made by September in order […]
In Wisconsin, a team of chemical and biological engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has found a way to produce from biomass a valuable compound used in plastic production that they estimate could lower the cost of ethanol produced from plant material by more than two dollars per gallon. The development is the latest in […]
In Wisconsin, researchers from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee are tackling the main obstacle of keeping genetically modified switchgrass off the commercial market. It’s the possibility that lab-engineered genes could escape human control by mixing with genes of wild-growing grasses, which might interrupt natural processes in unpredictable ways. Genetically modified tomatoes were first approved for human […]
In Wisconsin, D3MAX announced the completion and shipment of its pilot plant employing the patented D3MAX cellulosic ethanol technology. The pilot facility will be installed at ACE Ethanol LLC, in Stanley, Wisconsin, in late February. Installation is expected to be complete by mid-March with startup and testing at the facility taking place over the ensuing […]
In Wisconsin, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin has spun out a company called Lactic Solutions to advance a judo-like remedy for lactic acid production during ethanol fermentation: using genetic engineering to transform enemy into friend. Instead of killing lactic acid bacteria with antibiotics, he’s spliced in genes for ethanol production so these organisms […]
In Wisconsin, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have incorporated an exotic gene conferring weak bonds into the plant’s lignin, the hard-to-process compound that gives plant cell walls their sturdiness but makes them difficult to process in an industrial setting. The resulting lignin, dubbed zip-lignin, readily breaks down under simple chemical conditions. This […]
In Wisconsin, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel. The newly engineered “super yeast” could boost the economics of making ethanol, specialty biofuels and bioproducts. Though […]
In Wisconsin, Kempler & Co. Inc. is suing Midwest Biodiesel Products in Madison County Circuit Court alleging that the biodiesel producer failed to pay $123,336.80 with interest of $16.50 per diem following a judgment in its favor in Florida last April. The plaintiff alleges that so far no payments have been made and also failed […]
In Wisconsin, a rabbi speaking at the National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo in Milwaukee encouraged biodiesel producers using corn oil, soy and oil vegetable oils as feedstocks to ensure their production method was kosher, providing wider market opportunities for the glycerin byproduct. Some polysorbate 80 used in the corn oil extraction process can be […]
