Latest Cellulosic ethanol commercialization Stories
MONTREAL, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, announced today that Waste Management and EB Investments are investing C$15 million for a minority equity interest in Enerkem Alberta Biofuels L.P., which is currently building a full-scale commercial facility in Edmonton, using Enerkem's proprietary technology. Total financing raised by Enerkem in 2011, both at the corporate and project subsidiary levels, now amounts to...
SAN FRANCISCO and IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the Advanced Biofuels Markets Conference in San Francisco, Arnold Klann, Chief Executive Officer and President of BlueFire Renewables (OTC BB: BFRE.OB), a company focused on shifting the paradigm for energy sources by converting non-food cellulosic wastes into renewable fuels and chemicals, will announce the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary, SucreSource. The new subsidiary will focus specifically on the...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qteros, Inc., the developer of a unique and highly efficient Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP) platform for the lowest-cost production of cellulosic ethanol, today announced the Company will participate in the Advanced Biofuels Markets Conference in San Francisco, California, November 8-10, 2011. John A. McCarthy, Jr., Qteros' President and Chief Executive Officer, will present as part of a panel entitled, "Commercial...
KENNESAW, Ga., Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Renmatix, the leading producer of cellulosic sugars, is pleased to announce Fred Moesler, a former Dow Chemical, NatureWorks and ZeaChem engineer and modeling specialist, has joined as vice president of process technology. Moesler brings to Renmatix fifteen years of bioindustrial production and process development experience. He will oversee the evolution of the company's proprietary, low-cost biomass-to-sugars process from demonstration scale...
VISALIA, Calif., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EdeniQ, Inc., a California-based clean technology company serving the global biofuels industry, announced today its appointment of Steve Rust as the company's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110614/SF19106LOGO) Rust was most recently the Director of Marketing at Fremont Industries, where he worked closely with sales to increase Fremont's market share of water treatment solutions for ethanol...
SKAERBAEK, Denmark, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Inbicon has revealed a frugal new customer for the cellulosic ethanol made from straw at its Inbicon Biomass Refinery in Kalundborg. The biofuel powered the winning car in the Urban Concepts class of the 2011 Shell Eco-marathon in Europe, setting a new record at 1,197 miles per gallon (509 km/l), adjusted for energy equivalence with gasoline. "The Roadrunners team from the Technical University of Denmark designed, built, tuned, tested, and...
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association called on the Environmental Protection Agency today to reduce mandated volumes of cellulosic and advanced biofuels in gasoline and the total Renewable Fuel Standard this year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110309/MM60639LOGO) Gregory M. Scott, NPRA executive vice president and general counsel, testified at an EPA public hearing on the proposed volumes. "The Clean Air Act...
VISALIA, Calif., July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EdeniQ, Inc. and IKA® Works, Inc., a Delaware corporation and subsidiary of the German firm IKA® Werke GmbH Co. KG announced today their mutually exclusive global agreement for the supply of biomass mixing and milling technology for the biofuels and biochemical markets and for ongoing development of biomass milling process technologies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110614/SF19106LOGO After several years of joint...
SCHERREBEK, Denmark, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Inbicon, inventor of the biomass conversion technology driving the Inbicon Biomass Refinery, announced a summary of its private crop studies and confidential biomass research. "Our findings confirm that North America's great abundance of corn stover and wheat straw is sufficiently concentrated in the prime grain-growing regions to make biomass collection practical and economical," says Benny Mai, General Manager, Inbicon. "Farmers and...
DALLAS, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Allard Research and Development, the world leader in small to medium-scale ethanol fuel production systems, announced today the world's first self-powered modular cellulose ethanol refinery utilizing cellulose feedstock grown as part of the system in hydroponic shipping containers. A 20 gallon-per-hour modular cellulose ethanol refinery module with feedstock grow containers will have a 3,600 sq. ft. footprint. These modules can be networked together...
