Arisdyne completes $5.3 million equity raise for cavitation technology for increased biofuels production yield

In Ohio, Arisdyne Systems, a fuel cavitation technology, announced that it has raised $5.3 million in equity financing to expand its research into biofuel production. Arisdyne will license technology from Cavitech Holding Company and will research the enhancement of yields from ethanol production through hydrodynamic cavitation.

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Researchers at the University of Georgia say that they have developed a milder, faster pretreatment process for cellulosic ethanol production from grasses, woody biomass, and corn stover. The research team said that the new process eliminated the need for harsher, more expensive, slower pre-treatment processes, and that the new process increases the production of simple sugars by a factor of ten. The university said that it would license the technology.

In Colorado, the leading biofuels media, research and development company, BBI International, has established a subsidiary to develop cellulosic ethanol plants. BBI BioVentures will construct a series of 4-5 Mgy plants that will use local feedstock that requires little or no pretreatment, a costly step in proudction. Projects will be co-located with existing plants to minimize cost.

In Missouri, ICM has debuted a new process to extract more food for human consumption from the ethanol conversion process that uses field corn used for livestock. The process, called Total Kernel Optimization, provids a higher yield in separating oil and protein during conversion, which is used for human consumption in corn syrup and corn oil, while the starch is used for ethanol and the remaining fiber is burned for power generation. ICM said that it will retrofit nine ethanol plants per year commencing in 2009, out of its portfolio of 73 plants in operation and 26 in construction.

In Massachusetts, Harvard University and SunEthanol announced a research partnership in which Harvard Medical School researchers will develop new strains of the Q Microbe, used by SunEthanol in a “one-step” cellulosic ethanol process. The goal of the genetic modifications is to improve ethanol yields. The company also confirmed plans to launch its pilot production facility by 2009 and enter into commercial production by 2010.

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