Biomass

By John Davis “The fact that our microbes can produce a diesel fuel directly from biomass with no additional chemical modifications is exciting and important,” says Jay Keasling, the Chief Executive Officer for JBEI, and a leading scientific authority on synthetic biology. “Given that the costs of...

National utility for the Czech Republic ?EZ Group reports that it produced more than 327 GWh of electricity from biomass during 2009 through co-firing.

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Rentech Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc. on Monday announced today that their project to construct a biomass gasifier at Rentech's Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Denver, Colorado has been awarded a conditional US $22.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The gasi...

By John Davis A recent study that contends algae-based biodiesel is no more environmentally friendly than conventional row-crop feedstocks has generated some controversy, as well as quite a few comments. And even the algal-biofuel industry seems to be split on the issue.

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The U.S. biomass thermal industry is poised to offer significant carbon and financial savings for consumers. Biomass for thermal energy is up to 90% efficient; in contrast, using biomass for the production of electricity is up to 40% efficient, and producing transportation fuels from bi...

By John Davis An energy source made from biomass that’s touted as “magic coal from the steam cooker” will make its debut at the Energy from Biomass and Waste conference January 26-27, 2010 at the Royal Horticultural Halls & Conference Centre in London, England.

By Joanna Schroeder “What we’re finding now with the biofuels industry is there’s potential to use what we’ve thought of as cover crops as double crops and actually market the material,” said Richard. “The above ground biomass could be a winter grain like winter rye, winter wheat or winter barley or could be a...

By Chuck In the growing field of biomass conversion to fuel there’s a plant that Mississippi State University thinks will help farmers and all Americans. It’s Giant Miscanthus and you can follow it on Twitter @GiantMiscanthus. They’ve actually licensed the product which is Freedom Giant Miscan...

By Joanna Schroeder The Southeast is poised to be the leader in energy crop production according to University of Florida Associate Professor and energy crops expert Dr. John Erickson. He has been focusing on research of perennial grasses, mostly C4 grasses in his work with the Agronomy department. These can...

By John Davis Jeremy Schmutz, the study’s first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. “It also happens to be the largest plant that’s ever b...

Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) announced its planned acquisition of more than $20 million in environmental attributes to support the development of small scale renewable energy generation resources such as solar, wind or biomass.

blog) Mining the soil: Biomass, the unsustainable energy source blog) Dedicating acreage to servicing biomass wood burners denies its use for lumber or paper. Ultimately, the consumer will shoulder the loss in the form of ... Biomass Plant planned for UKGizmag all 2 news articles »

For now, First Energy Generation plans to use the biomass to produce electricity alone and not harvest waste heat for cogeneration or combined heat and ... £4 million in Grants for Biomass HeatingCheckbiotech.org (press release) all 2 news articles »

Newer studies are finding that the carbon contribution of biomass depends on how a biomass plant is operated - how the wood is harvested, ... Biomass Study Kicks OffWSHM-TV all 3 news articles »

By John Davis A press release from Atlantic Biomass, a Frederick, Maryland, biotech-biofuel company focused on developing cutting-edge systems to produce advanced biofuels from sustainable, non-food biomass, says work with Hood College has produced a thermostable enzyme that opens the way to...

By John Davis It could become the next great fuel source from the agricultural community. A Nebraska-based biomass supplier and manufacturer has debuted a product it touts as “Coal from the Farm.” Next Step Biofuels, Inc. has launched PowerPellets, a green fuel made from corn stover – all the leaves, co...

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As a renewable power plant, however, it uses local biomass (a renewable fuel source) instead of coal, natural gas, or oil. To be economically feasible, ... Opposition to biomass power in Mass. spurs study, suspension of RPS approvalBiomass Magazine all 2 news articles »

By Chuck Zimmerman AGCO is one of the companies working on a prototype biomass harvest/transport system. At POET’s Project LIBERTY Field Day they demonstrated a pulled behind baler system to harvest corn cobs and stover. Dean Morrell, Product Marketing Manager for Hay and Forage Harvesting, was on site an...

By Mike Millikin Food vs. Fuel. The Company converts residual biomass from agricultural and forestry and/or dedicated non-food crops through a thermochemical process into BioOil and Biochar. BioOil and Biochar plants can coexist with existing forestry and agricultural facilities, providing an addi...

By Mike Millikin Schematic diagram of the fluidized-bed system for fast pyrolysis of biomass. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al. 2009. Click to enlarge.The conversion of biomass into bio-oil using fast pyrolysis technology is a promising alternative to convert biomass into liquid products—either for direct use...

By Chuck Zimmerman One of my stops in their building included the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals & Fuels. On hand to tell their story and give us an update on their activities was Sheilachu P. Gomez, Assistant Director, pictured here. She says the Center is primarily for the development of the tech...

By Mike Millikin At the core of Cyclone’s current biomass-to-power system for the proof-of-concept EATR is the patent-pending WHE, a six-cylinder Rankine cycle external heat engine capable of generating up to 15 hp of mechanical power. An attached vegetative biomass combustion chamber produces up t...

http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/Summary-Market-Report/global-biofuels-market-opportunities,-emerging-technologies-and-production-159682.asp This report is the most comprehensive treatment of the biofuels market available. Worldwide data is provided on biorefi...

For a decade, Europe has been supporting biomass thermal energy, creating a large commercial and industrial market for resources like wood pellets. Here in the U.S., support has been absent; therefore, wood pellets play only a niche role in residential applications. In this podcast, we'l...

By Mike Millikin “Energy crops like switchgrass are the only scalable, carbon-negative sources for transportation fuels in the EPA analysis,” Hamilton said, meaning that more carbon is sequestered from the atmosphere than is released in the lifecycle of producing and burning the fuel. “That’s a bene...

 United States If ever there were unknown environmental impacts, it's from biomass. Biomass facilities burn trees. Biomass devotees endlessly chant, "We're carbon-neutral," hoping to lull the masses into a deep trance where they'll hear instead, ...

Scientific American  MA Findings show that turning biomass into electricity is more beneficial than turning it into transportation fuels. By Tyler Hamilton A study published today in Science concludes that, on average, using biomass to produce electricity is 80 percent more ...

By Mike Millikin Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol.

http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/Summary-Company-Profile/GCL-Poly-Energy-Holdings-Ltd.-Financial-and-Strategic-Analysis-Review-73732.asp GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review Summary GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited (GCL-Poly...

By rss@youtube.com (sardinien1983) Author: sardinien1983 Keywords: how to make biodiesel biofuels biomass clean renewable energy Added: April 1, 2009

By Staff Writer The approval will see the installation of a GreenSwitch biomass-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) plant at The Combination of Rothes ... Helius Energy gets permission for Rothes renewable energy project SmallCapNews.co.uk

By Mike Millikin Given the efficiencies of a typical Fischer-Tropsch process, Bio-Syntrolysis would thus convert about 90% of the carbon in biomass to liquid synthetic fuel, INL says. By comparison, INL notes, conventional biomass or coal gasification to liquid fuels converts only ~35% of the carbon...

By Biopact team(noreply@blogger.com) References: Bradley E. Fronning, Kurt D. Thelen and Doo-Hong Min, "Use of Manure, Compost, and Cover Crops to Supplant Crop Residue Carbon in Corn Stover Removed Cropping Systems", Agronomy Journal, 100:1703-1710 (2008), DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0052

By Biopact team(noreply@blogger.com) Bioplastics made from cellulosic biomass, such as forestry or crop waste, offer a smarter way to use biomass than turning it into liquid biofuels. Per hectare of crops grown or per quantity of biomass, cellulosic bioplastics offset more petroleum and GHG emissions than liquid cellulos...

By Biopact team(noreply@blogger.com) References: Nexterra: Nexterra Energy to Supply Biomass Gasification System to Kruger Products Paper Mill in New Westminster BC Direct Fired Boiler Application Marks Industry First - November 19, 2008. Biopact: Nexterra biomass gasification ready to displace up to 60% fossil fuels...

 WI - They add that it will also reduce net carbon dioxide emissions. "By converting biomass to gas, the resulting fuel is much cleaner and has far fewer ... Innovative Biomass Energy Project to Begin Regulatory Review ... Your Renewable News (press release) all 8 news articles

 Germany - Currently, two of the three operating units at Bay Front use biomass as their primary fuel to generate electricity. In 1979, the facility became the first ... Xcel Energy plant to expand its power St. Cloud Times all 10 news articles

By Mike Millikin For their global overall estimations for transportation fuels, the two used the conversion of the lignocellulosic biomass to biooil (“bioslurry”) via pyrolysis and its subsequent gasification to a syngas followed by Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (biomass-to-liquids, BTL).

Sue Beitlich with the Wisconsin Farmers Union said the Homegrown Renewable Energy Campaign proposes four new policy initiatives: a crop reserve program for biomass, expanded use of renewables in schools and communities, a renewable energy buyback program, and a low carbon fuel stan...

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A Minnesota based utility has announced plans for a biomass power plant in northern Wisconsin. Xcel Energy plans to convert its existing coal fired generating plant in Ashland to burn biomass exclusively. The plant already burns wood waste to augment coal. The plan draws kudos from Mark Re...

By Matt Feltz Moving from one politically-driven pipe dream to another, we peek in at Cambridge-based Mascoma Corporation, which is currently working on a way to make ethanol fuel more viable and less of a payoff to electorally-important corn farmers. (Apologies to any Iowa-born Bostonians we may h...

Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create an decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part one of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss alternatives to fossil fuel for residential heating in New En...

Firstly, Bruce Rittman, director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Arizona, will tell us about microbial fuel cells that use cultures of bacteria to break down wet biomass waste to create electricity.

Firstly, Bruce Rittman, director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Arizona, will tell us about microbial fuel cells that use cultures of bacteria to break down wet biomass waste to create electricity.

By Mike Millikin The team, led by Frank Dohleman of the Plant Biology Department, theorized that Miscanthus produces more usable biomass than switchgrass because of these three key attributes: Miscanthus has a greater leaf area; and Miscanthus has a longer growing season.

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The Secretary says the consortium will play an important role in meeting Governor Doyle's goal of having 25 percent of Wisconsin's energy coming from renewable sources by the year 2025. States involved in the group will focus on creating new ethanol plants and researching bio-technolo...