All Entries Tagged With: "UOP"

UOP: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

UOP
Based in: Illinois
2008-09 ranking: #10
Business:
Honeywell’s UOP has developed a renewable jet fuel processing technology, as well as a joint venture. UOP and Ensyn announced the formation of a new joint venture, dubbed Envergent Technologies, that will market technologies and equipment for generating power, transportation fuel and heating oil from biomass using pyrolysis. The joint [...]

September 25, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Rentech proposes 9 Mgy renewable diesel, power plant in California; wood, agricultural waste as feedstocks

In California, Rentech announced plans to construct a 9 Mgy renewable diesel plant that will also produce 35 MW of power, in Rialto.
The plant will provide sufficient power for 30,000 homes and the fuel equivalent for 18,000 cars at average residential usage rates. The plant is expected to easily surpass the standards of the new [...]

May 12, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Japan Airlines biofuels flight test a success; camelina, algae, jatropha used in B50 biofuel mix; fuel economy higher than Jet-A

In Japan, Japan Airlines became the fourth airline to successfully flight test biofuels in the past year, and the first to successfully demonstrate camelina as a biofuel feedstock.
The airline conducted a one-hour 747-300 flight test using a B50 blend of camelina, jatropha and algae based biofuel in the number 3 engine.
The jatropha was supplied by [...]

January 30, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 6