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Diversified Energy meeting DOE/NETL gasification program milestones
In Arizona, Diversified Energy announced it completed key milestones in an advanced gasification development program sponsored by the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The 24-month, $945,000 grant is focused on the design and demonstration of a one ton per day OmniGas gasifier to process biomass, coal.
OmniGas uses molten slag to produce syngas that can be [...]
ThermoChem Recovery: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
ThermoChem Recovery International (TRI)
Based in: Maryland
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Steam reforming gasification. TRI’s medium-BTU syngas can be converted into a wide range of downstream biofuel and biochemical products. Since 2003, a TRI gasifier has been in commercial-scale operation at Norampac’s Trenton (Ontario) containerboard mill, gasifying black liquor (solid biomass equivalent: 500 dry tons per day). [...]
Enerkem to supply residential heat, power using residuals from Canadian biofuel plant
In Canada, Enerkem announced that it will supply power and heat to residents in Emerald Hills, Alberta, using heat and residual gas from its Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels plant. The community energy project has received $7.45 million in support from the Alberta provincial government’s EcoTrust fund.
Strathona County said that they will use the renewable energy [...]
Coskata: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Coskata
Based in: Illinois
2008-09 ranking: #1
Business: The company’s process heats raw materials to 17800 degrees fahrenheit, then releases the material into a bioreactor where microbes convert the gas into ethanol, with a yield of 100 gallons per ton of feedstock at a cost of less than $1 per gallon. The company can co-locate with steel mills [...]
Chemrec, Volvo and partners break ground on black liquor biofuels plant in Sweden
In Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf was on hand for groundbreaking at Chemrec’s renewable biofuel facility at the Smurfit Kappa paper mill in Pitea. The pilot plant will produce BioDme biofuel, and is expected to open next July with a production capacity of 584,000 gallons per year. The cost of the pilot facility is $20 [...]
Nexterra receives $7.7 million grant from Canadian government for biomass gasification system
In Canada, Nexterra Systems announced that it has received $7.7M in funding from the BC Bioenergy Network (BCBN),
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), and Ethanol BC in development support of its advanced biomass gasification systems.
The funding will assist the commercialization of a new combined heat and [...]
Chemrec to break ground on BioDME demo plant in Sweden, using black liquor gasification
In Sweden, Chemrec announced that they will break ground in September on a BioDME (dimethyl ether) demonstration plant project in Piteå. The project will be completed in mid-2010, and will demonstrate the production of an advanced diesel fuel, DME, from forest biomass over the black liquor route. The company’s black liquor gasification development plant, also [...]
Sweden’s Chemrec pushes advantages of biofuels made at pulp mills based on black liquor gasification
In Sweden, Chemrec CEO Rick LeBlanc authored an essay on the opportunities associated with black liquor gasification of pulp mill waste. LeBlanc writes:
“While first-generation biofuels will likely continue to play a role in America’s drive to be energy independent, their consumption of foodstock as their raw material concerns many: To what extent will food production [...]
Chemrec seeks Georgia sites from black liquor gasification biofuels projects
In Georgia, Chemrec said that it is evaluating mill sites for integrated black liquor gasification biorefineries at pulp and paper mills. Chemrec biorefineries transform mills into producers of biofuels or biochemicals or even green electricity and power. Georgia has more than 24 million acres of forestland – second only to the state of Oregon.
Chemrec’s technology [...]
24 MW biomass-to-power gasification system proposed for Canada
In Canada, Chickadee Creek Energy and Millar Western have proposed construction of a 24 MW biomass-to-energy facility using Taylor Gasification technology in Whitecourt, Alberta. According to the Whitecourt Star, Taylor Gasification technology will generate almost 2X the power generated from burning the biomass, The plant will produce syngas from 272 tons of wood waste biomass [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
