10 Bellwether Biofuels & Biobased Projects for 2014
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Advanced biofuels – are plans turning into reality? Are development plans realistic? When these 10 projects open for business (or not) in 2014, you’ll know for sure.
…Well, the picture is incomplete.
Plants like the Valero Darling renewable diesel project are running fine; demonstrations like American Process AVAP plant came on line as expected; while others like the KiOR project in Columbus, NM foundered. The INEOS Bio project in Vero Beach, FL and the Gevo plant in Luverne, MN are open, but not producing at their intended run-rate, either.
Making 2014 very much a critical year.
What’s on the docket for this year? The largest waste-to-fuels plant, the first tailored oils plant from Solazyme, three major cellulosic ethanol projects in the US. Two major cellulosic ethanol projects in Brazil. A signature low-cost waste-to-gasoline (blendstock) project. A major renewable diesel project in Finland, and a key succinic acid first commercial in Ontario.
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1. Cool Planet, first commercial, Port of Alexandria, Louisiana …
2. Abengoa Biorefinery, first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant – Hugoton, KS …
3. GranBio commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, Alagoas, Brazil …
4. POET-DSM Project Liberty, Emmetsburg, IA …
5. DuPont Industrial Biosciences, first commercial, Nevada, Iowa …
6. Raizen / Iogen, first commercial, Brazil …
7. Solazyme-Bunge, first commercial, Moema, Brazil …
8. Enerkem, first commercial, Edmonton, Alberta …
9. UPM, first commercial, Lappeenranta, Finland …
10. BioAmber, first commercial, Sarnia, Ontario READ MORE and MORE