Heard on the Floor at ABLC 2021 – Day 1
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ABLC 2021 opens this morning after an informal day of networking, but already the 500+ attendees are buzzing about a series of announces, and many more to come as the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference resumes live in person.
Some of the hot news items are:
Mura Technology Launches U.S. Division and Announces Washington State as the Location for its First Commercial Project. Mura Technology, the UK-based pioneer of HydroPRS™ (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling System), an advanced process capable of recycling mixed plastic waste, today announced the launch of its US project development business. Washington State will be the site of its first U.S. project, named Mura Cascade ELP.
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Shell selects Worley for a major low-carbon fuels project in the Netherlands. Worley has been selected to provide detailed design and procurement services to support the development of a low-carbon fuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam in the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, it’s expected to be one of the biggest of its kind in Europe.
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Reducing CO2 using a Panchromatic Osmium Complex Photosensitizer. Using photocatalysts to reduce CO2 has received a lot of attention recently. Scientists from Tokyo Tech have developed a new osmium complex that can absorb a full wavelength range of visible light and act as a panchromatic redox photosensitizer for CO2 reduction.
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Sulzer enabling production of 70’000 tonnes of biomass pellets per year – a carbon-neutral alternative to coal
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Mercurius has a pilot now up and running in the town of Mackay, in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, a tropical locale so luscious and unexpected that we’d better explain what happened along the way.
Mercurius has finalized commissioning and is about to commence operations at their pilot plant that will use their patented REACH technology to produce valuable renewable chemicals, diesel and jet fuel from sugarcane waste.
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ADM, Gevo Sign MoU to Produce up to 500M Gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel. ADM Columbus and Cedar Rapids dry mills as well as ethanol assets from Decatur operations would transition from fuel ethanol to serving growing demand for lower-carbon aviation fuel. ADM and Gevo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of sustainable aviation fuel and other low carbon-footprint hydrocarbon fuels.
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Carbon Recycling International And Johnson Matthey Collaborate To Support Sustainable Methanol. Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey have agreed on a long term exclusive catalyst supply agreement for the use of JM’s KATALCO methanol catalysts in CRI’s Emissions-To-Liquids designed CO2 to methanol plants.
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GoodFuels, Renewable Energy Group ink long-term agreement. GoodFuels and Renewable Energy Group have entered a long-term agreement for the supply and development of sustainable marine biofuel solutions for the global shipping industry.
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The United Kingdom’s Department for Transport awards Nova Pangaea Technologies, LanzaJet and British Airways grant funding to help develop sustainable aviation fuel to decarbonise the aviation industry.
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Petron Scientech, SBI Bioenergy ink partnership for Biomass to Green Hydrogen and Low Carbon Biofuels.
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Novozymes launches Innova Quantum. Novozymes is launching Innova Quantum – a new yeast that breaks the limits of performance without trade-offs. The robust new yeast enables ethanol plants with longer fermentation times of more than 60 hours to realize higher ethanol yields and processing efficiencies than ever before. READ MORE
