Biofuel

By Emma Ritch Biofuel startup opens up about its business plans as it opens the doors to the demonstration facility and announces late 2012 as the target for commercial production.

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) The goal is to enable a switch away from corn- and soy-based biofuel to cellulosic energy crops that don't compete on the food or feed market and have a smaller carbon footprint. A 2007 energy law, in fact, requires a total of 160 billion gallons of the plant-based cellulosic fuels by 2022 th...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) Traverse City -- Automakers, biofuel companies and battery makers are rushing to bring two new technologies to the nation's auto fleet: plug-in electric hybrids and cellulosic ethanol. The next five years is the engineering (research and development) and the next five years is the rap...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) Producers already make grain ethanol by using yeast to ferment six-carbon plant sugars like glucose. But cost-effective production of cellulosic ethanol will require using both six-carbon and five-carbon sugars in the process.

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) By 2022, the U.S. EPA expects the domestic biofuels industry to produce more than 32 billion gallons per year of renewable fuel. However, less than half of that fuel is expected to be corn-based ethanol. The majority, 16 billion gallons, will be cellulosic biofuel. The Energy Independence an...

The joint Iogen-Shell demonstration plant is capable of producing 40000 litres of fuel per month. Cellulosic ethanol is identical to conventional biofuels, but does not use food crops and produces significantly less CO 2 during its lifecycle than other ...

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 DC These technologies include Edenspace Systems' Energy Corn, a feedstock that aims to cut the cost of producing cellulosic biofuels, and Coskata's Flex Ethanol technology, a hybrid approach to producing fuel-grade ethanol. ...

In addition to drastically increasing the mandated volumes for biofuels, the RFS2 specifies four categories of renewable fuels, each with its own respective mandate. According to Thurmond, since the RFS2 now specifies the category of cellulosic biofuel ...

Here are three of them: Cellulosic Biofuel Makers: If you're an exec at one of the companies racing to be the first in the US to commercially produce cellulosic ethanol from non-crop plants and biowaste, then chances are, your firm has had to extend ...

Another major focus of the current administration is to increase biofuel use and improve the associated technology with improved funding for cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel, according to Vilsack. The most favored proposal is increasing the alcohol ...

All gasoline purchased at the Ottawa station will be a blend of 10% cellulosic ethanol and 90% gasoline (CE10). E10 ethanol-gasoline blends are sold widely in the United States, but the ethanol component is made from corn. Advanced non-food biofuels ...

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Globally, big oil companies are moving slowly into both corn ethanol and next-generation cellulosic ethanol amid concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and rising mandates for biofuels in the United States, the world's top energy consumer. ...

 United States The biofuel -- which can also be made from sugarcane bagasse, switchgrass and other plants -- has 90 percent less lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions than gasoline, according to the Anglo-Dutch oil major (NYSE: RDS). The cellulosic ethanol was brewed at ...

They will apply to domestic and foreign producers and importers of renewable fuels. The revisions establish new volume standards for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel that must be used in ... Biodiesel Magazine - Agriculture Online

The 2007 energy law guarantees use of 36 billion gallons (136 billion liters) a year of biofuels by 2022, 15 billion gallons from conventional biofuels, such as corn-based ethanol, and 21 billion gallons from advanced fuels such as cellulosic ethanol ...

produce oil to feed a biodiesel industry. It needs to asked again if the industry is repeating this kind of "Jatropha euphoria" with other biofuels like algal biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol which will eventually lead to the same disillusion.

 United States Biofuel executives, meanwhile, speak of an inevitable turn from corn-based ethanol into more efficient cellulosic feedstocks like sugarcane, switchgrass, and wood waste -- all spurred by an infusion of capital from big oil companies and large timber ...

 DC Raising capital is the biggest challenge faced by biofuel companies seeking to establish advanced cellulosic facilities, said Cole Gustafson, a biofuel economist at North Dakota State University Extension. "With unproven biofuels conversion technology, ...

The Toledo Free Press reports that the biofuel will be used as a 10 percent mix with gasoline for the pilot program with city vehicles. During a press conference in Toledo this week, SuGanit Systems founder Praveen Paripati said the biomass ethanol ...

 ND By Anna Austin Australia-based agriculture technology company Glenvar has developed a direct baling system which it said could be beneficial to the biomass and cellulosic ethanol industries. The Glenvar Bale Direct System combines a conventional baler ...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) The current cellulosic biofuel mandate is set at 1 billion gallons by 2013, with additional annual increases to 16 billion gallons in 2022. The advanced biofuel requirement also includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel by 2012.

The advanced biofuel requirement also includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel by 2012. Speakers at the briefing included DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC Vice President of Commercial and Public Affairs Jack Huttner; Gevo Inc. CEO ...

“We can make 90 percent renewable gasoline—not hypothetical gasoline, exactly gasoline. Likewise, isobutanol contains the same hydrocarbon components that go into jet fuel and diesel fuel.” Dupont Danisco's cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in ...

When it is harvested for the first time three years later, the wood chips can be burned in a wood- or coal-fired power plant or used to make cellulosic biofuel, but VVS ag teacher Keith Schiebel is interested in using the chips as a renewable fuel for ...

 ND The center contributes to carbohydrate research in a wide variety of areas, including biofuels. The CCRC's biofuel research focuses on determining the structure of the carbohydrate that is left behind after a cellulosic feedstock is pretreated.

Recent high crude oil prices reaching 140 $/barrel and federal incentives have spurred biofuel production. Additionally, as noted by a 2007 McKinsey report, cellulosic biofuels have the potential to be a negative cost means to abate CO2. However, the majority of the current ( I generati...

By Mike Millikin The report sees ethanol use for gasoline blending growing to 12.2 billion gallons and E85 consumption to 17.3 billion gallons in 2030. The ethanol supply from cellulosic feedstocks reaches 12.6 billion gallons (including both domestic and imported production) in 2030. Biodiesel and biom...

By Mike Millikin Expansion of the volume of renewable fuel (36 billion gallons by 2022). Separation of the renewable fuel volume requirements into four categories: cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel.

By Alok Jha Converting this plant waste into useful fuels is a major goal for the biofuel industry, which currently uses food crops such as corn and has been blamed for high food prices. Normally, cellulosic materials are treated with enzymes that first convert it to sugar, with microbes then used to...

By Mike Millikin GM said that it will continue to share with China the R&D results in the area of new energy from its research centers and partners around the world, including the R&D and market applications of next-generation, non-food based cellulosic ethanol. Chen said China can produce cell...

By Mike Millikin If scaled up further, the process could yield 307 combined kilograms, or 99 gallons, of acetone, biobutanol, and ethanol from 1 ton of wheat straw. According to Dr. Richard Bain at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the current expected yield for cellulosic ethanol from a biochem...

By Mike Millikin Delivering that aggressive quantity of more than 600 billion liters (158.5 billion gallons US) of biofuels by 2030 would require progress particularly in the area of cellulosic biofuels, Ellerbusch said in a talk at Platts 3rd Annual Cellulosic Ethanol and Biofuels conference in Chic...

By Mike Millikin Development of commercially viable enzymes for the production of cellulosic ethanol is the largest research and development effort in Novozymes’ history with more than 100 employees allocated. Novozymes has already confirmed plans to launch the enzymes required for commercially v...

By David Roberts grist.orgPicture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy. Unlike cellulosic ethanol, this...

By Mike Millikin India’s current feedstock for ethanol production is mainly molasses, and the country has sufficient supplies from its sugar industry to meet the 5% target, Muttemvar said. However, to increase the blending proportion to 10%, the country will need to develop cellulosic ethanol capabi...

The new research centers are part of the Bush administration's plan to reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent during the next decade. The centers will study biomass plants such as switchgrass, poplar trees and corn stalks used for cellulosic ethanol.

By Mike Millikin Starch-to-ethanol from grain sorghum. About 15% of the US grain sorghum crop currently goes into ethanol production with one bushel of grain sorghum producing the same amount of ethanol as one bushel of corn, according to the National Sorghum Producers.

By Mike Millikin “Development of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) as a bioenergy feedstock in the United States”; Samuel B. McLaughlin and Lynn Adams Kszos; Biomass and Bioenergy Volume 28, Issue 6 , June 2005, Pages 515-535 Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol: A Joint Research Agen...