In Delaware, the Biden Presidential Campaign issued a statement blasting the Trump Administration for not supporting farmers and the biofuel industry, saying that like an Obama-Biden Administration, a Biden-Harris Administration would have the industry’s back. “Instead of standing with those who till our land and sow our fields, we have a president who has sold […]
In Delaware, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences announced the launch of SPEZYME HN, the latest in the SPEZYME line of alpha amylase enzymes and a new inclusion in business’s suite of XCELIS Ethanol Solutions. The SPEZYME line is known for offering numerous advantages for ethanol producers, including robust liquefaction and significant viscosity reduction across a variety […]
In Delaware, White Dog Labs announced that the district court for Morrison county, MN, has approved its bid to acquire the Central Minnesota Renewables (CMR) plant in Little Falls, MN. The plant, originally a 20mgy ethanol plant, was upgraded in 2016 to produce butanol and has several of the unique production capabilities required to produce […]
In Delaware, the Delaware Innovation Space’s First Fund program, providing early stage science startups with critical seed and pre-seed funding and access to business building expertise, community of experts, core programs, scientific equipment, and extensive multi-use laboratories, can now each secure an investment of up to $150,000 from the First Fund Program to fund their […]
In Delaware, led by the University of Delaware, researchers have made a new discovery that could further advance carbon capture and utilization and extend its promise to new industries. In the journal Nature Chemistry, Jiao and collaborators from the California Institute of Technology, Nanjing University (China), and Soochow University (China) describe how they formed carbon-nitrogen […]
In Delaware, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences has announced the launch of DuPont OPTIMASH DCO+ for increased recovery of corn oil in dry grind ethanol plants. OPTIMASH DCO+ provides a flexible solution for ethanol producers to increase corn oil yield without affecting downstream processes or the quality of distillers’ grains. OPTIMASH DCO+ is a patent-pending thermostable […]
In Delaware, the Associated Press reports that the saga over the proposed 10,000 bpd ethanol transshipment project along a protected part of the Delaware coast continues after the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board decided to allow Delaware Audubon Society and the League of Women Voters of Delaware to challenge the project’s permit application from 2016. […]
In Delaware, a major bridge and traffic artery was temporarily shut down during the tail end of Thanksgiving traffic after a gasket at Croda’s new bio-ethylene oxide plant leaked toxic gas. The company shut down production including of ethylene oxide until it could determine the source of the problem. The faulty gasket was sent off […]
In Delaware, a University of Delaware start-up company, called RiKarbon, Inc., is combining plant scraps and natural oils, through chemistry, to engineer a bio-based oil that can be used as a renewable alternative to typical petroleum-based resources used in everything from popular skin lotions and sunscreens to lubricants for shipping, agriculture, food processing and hydropower […]
In Delaware, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis a three-year, $1.5 million grant to study the production of clostridium bacteria as platforms for biofuels. Papoutsakis, the Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, will uncover fundamental insights about metabolism and environmental signaling in […]
