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QinetiQ awarded $2.4 million contract to supply waste pyrolysis system to Army
In the UK, QinetiQ has been awarded $2.4 million, three year contract for a PyTEC containerised Pyrolysis Waste Disposal System for the US Army. The self sustaining thermal pyrolysis system will process up to 100kg of Municipal Solid Waste per hour, and reclaims up to 500 kW of the thermal energy from the waste per [...]
Balboa Pacific: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Balboa Pacific
Based in: California
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Balboa’s “Green-Loop System” is a waste-to-power and biofuel system utilizing pyrolytic gasification. Balboa Pacific’s unique proprietary patented continuous-feed pyrolytic gasification waste treatment machine (the Bal-Pac) is capable of reducing the volume of any organic waste up to 95%, while producing recyclable and resalable by-products from the thermal destruction [...]
Anellotech launches; latest fast pyrolysis venture expands growing field of biocrude companies
In Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst recently granted a biofuels startup company, Anellotech, exclusive global rights to the university’s catalytic fast pyrolysis technology developed by chemical engineer and UMass Amherst faculty member George Huber for producing clean, green “grassoline.” Huber will serve as chairman of Anellotech’s scientific advisory board.
Anellotech will offer a low-cost, [...]
Biochar improves crop yields by 6-17 percent: test results
In Canada, Dynamotive Energy Systems and BlueLeaf said that a year-long test showed an overall increase of 6% to 17% in crop yields where biochar was applied compared to control plots, and illustrated the potential of biochar not only to store carbon but to improve crop yields, plus soil and water quality. In the test, [...]
Hot Topics: The latest on waste-to-energy
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Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis
Gravity Pressure: UK venture deploys gravity pressure vessel technology: realizing 63 [...]
Cornell bioenergy researchers to use 8,000 tons of campus organic waste
In New York, the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative announced a plan to utilize 8,000 tons of organic campus waste as feedstock for biofuel production using slow pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion and other advanced renewable energy technologies. The university has secured a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to assess [...]
Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Sustainable Power a leader in catalyst-based pyrolysis
Sustainable Power first was profiled in the Digest in January 2008, when the company was first testing algal biomass for its fast pyrolysis process that uses nanobacteria as catalysts and aims to license operators in Europe and Asia this year.
The company’s “Rivera Process” acts like a time machine, converting biomass into syngas, bio-oil and biochar [...]
Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Iowa State receives $11.81 million for two projects
Two Iowa State research teams have received 11.81 million from the USDA and the Department of Energy.
One team received a $2.37 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund, to replace natural gas in ethanol projects with heat and power produced from biomass using gasification technologies.
The second grant, for $944,000 from the USDA and the [...]
Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Dynamotive in China
Dynamotive Energy Systems will launch a pyrolysis plant in Henan province in partnership with Great China New Energy Technology Services. Hubei Xinda Bio-Oil Technology is developing the new plant.
The Chinese companies suggested an initial capacity of 6-10 Mgy in capacity for each pyrolysis facility. Dynamotive, under the agreement, will receive $2.3 million in technical support [...]
Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Lurgi, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a $2.49 biofuel by using pyrolysis on wood waste and straw. The bioliq, produced by heating plant material in a vacuum at 500 degrees C, is then gasified, heated to 1400 degrees C, and catalytically converted into synthetic diesel, hydrogen or methanol fuel. KIT said that they [...]
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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 -
