(Evening Gazette) An advanced bioethanol from waste plant, set to be developed on Teesside, has received a multi-million pound boost. INEOS Bio has been awarded a £7.3m grant from regional development agency One North East and the Department for Energy and
MSW (Municipal Solid Waste)
Back TO HOMES**t Hits the Fan(Belt): Manure, Sewage as Biofuel Materials
by John Timmer (ars technica) If you look at any single source of biofuels, the numbers can seem depressing, as it's very difficult to obtain enough raw material to account for more than a small percentage of the United States' liquid
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Sewage Sludge Could be a Competitive Feedstock for Biodiesel
(Environmental Protection) Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to the article, “Biodiesel Production from Municipal Sewage Sludges,” which was
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Plant Makes Fuel from Waste and Fiber
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) An Iowa corn ethanol plant has been converted to produce commercial cellulosic biofuels from fiber and municipal waste. Clean technology company Fiberight announced today that it has started “commenced production at the nation’s first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Enerkem Announces Funding from Alberta Energy for Its Edmonton Waste-to-Biofuels Facility
(Enerkem) Enerkem announced that it has been selected by Alberta Energy to receive funding for its future Edmonton waste-to-biofuels facility, operated under the name of Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels. The $3.35 million funding will come from the Biorefining Commercialization and Market
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Woodland Biofuels Awarded $4 Million by Ontario For Revolutionary Cellulosic Ethanol Demonstration Plant
Ontario is investing $4 million through the Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF) to help Woodland Biofuels Inc. and its partners build a groundbreaking demonstration plant that will efficiently produce cellulosic ethanol from renewable wastes. The plant will use Woodland’s patented technology, which
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Massachusetts City Agrees to Begin Talks on Waste-to-Ethanol Project
by Charles Winokoor (Tauton Daily Gazette) The city’s plans for what would be a landmark ethanol-based waste treatment plant cleared an important hurdle at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. The Council and its Committee on Solid Waste voted unanimously to enter
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
British Airways Calls for Carbon Revenues to Be Used to Help Scale up the Development of Aviation Biofuels
(GreenAirOnline) Carbon pricing is critical to the business case for aviation biofuels as airlines join schemes such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which starts in 2012, said British Airways’ Head of Environment Jonathon Counsell at last week’s
March 29, 2010 Read Full Article
Trash Plant Plan Moves Forward
by Gerry Tuoti (Tauton Daily Gazette) Mayor Charles Crowley is enthused by the feedback he’s received from the state about Taunton’s plans to create a new trash processing facility that will use trash to produce ethanol and other industrial materials. ...
March 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Consortium Gets Government Backing to Turn Waste Biomass into Transport Biofuel
(Greenwise) A consortium of British businesses has netted £7 million of Government funding to develop a technology that could see mini refineries sited near landfill sites up and down the country producing cheap, carbon efficient biofuel for transport from waste. ...The
March 18, 2010 Read Full Article
A Green Energy Alternative …The Free Enterprise Approach
(GeneSyst International, Inc.) This presentation from a 2009 Virginia Energy Summit explains, complemented by charts and graphs, GeneSyst's combination of patents and proprietary technologies for converting waste to energy, utilizing the Gravity Pressure Vessel (GPV). Of particular interest may be a quote from a local
February 27, 2010 Read Full Article
British Airways Signs Deal to Make Biofuel for Aircraft
by Gerard Wynn (Reuters) British Airways will start sourcing a small portion of its jet fuel from municipal waste from 2014, under a deal with U.S.-based biofuel company Solena Group, the two companies announced on Monday. British Airways, one of the
February 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Plan Questioned
by Diane Krieger Spivak (Post-Tribune) Lake County (Indiana) Solid Waste Management Commission chief Jeff Langbehn defended a planned $256 million bioethanol plant Friday before the Lake County Advancement Committee. ...Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez questioned whether the expense of the plant, which
February 17, 2010 Read Full Article
ENVIROTEK's "Extreme Bio-Diesel" Division Completes Phase I of Bio-Diesel Refinery Expansion
ENVIROTEK announced the company's Corona, California-based Extreme Bio-Diesel (EBD) division has successfully completed the first phase of its refinery expansion and is in full production of Bio-Diesel fuel, ahead of the projected January 2010 schedule. ENVIROTEK President, Robert Thompson, announced the facility
December 16, 2009 Read Full Article
Enerkem Awarded $50 Million Funding by U.S. Department of Energy for Its Mississippi Biorefinery Project
Enerkem Inc. today announced that Enerkem Corporation, its wholly-owned U.S. affiliate, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive US$50 million in funding for the construction and operation of its waste-to-biofuels facility to be located in
December 07, 2009 Read Full Article
Group Helps Small Cities Go Green
by Larisa Brass (Knoxvillebiz.com) A number of new organizations are springing up across Tennessee with a green glint in their eye. Among them is the Tennessee Renewable Energy and Economic Development Council, a group that's working with smaller cities to implement green
December 03, 2009 Read Full Article
Fiberight to Produce MSW-Based Cellulosic Ethanol
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The former Xethanol LLC ethanol production facility in Blairstown, Iowa, has been purchased by Fiberight LLC and will soon be producing cellulosic ethanol at a demonstration scale. The company recently acquired the shuttered plant
November 30, 2009 Read Full Article
Quebec Company Turns Trash Into Fuel
by John Lorinc (New York Times) Enerkem, a green energy company based in Quebec, has developed an alternative approach to mining the carbon out of non-recyclable plastics, construction waste and other materials found in the municipal waste stream. The company says it
October 29, 2009 Read Full Article
Is Garbage The Solution To Tackling Climate Change?
(Science Daily) Converting the rubbish that fills the world’s landfills into biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions, claim scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. New research published in Global Change Biology:
October 24, 2009 Read Full Article
Qteros and Applied CleanTech Announce Novel Solution for Turning Cellulose from Municipal Wastewater into ethanol Fuel for Cars
Recyllose™, a recycled solids-based material produced from municipal wastewater, can now be turned into fuel for cars, announced Applied Cleantech and Qteros, the advanced biofuels company whose breakthrough Q Microbe™ technology can turn biomass into cellulosic ethanol. Qteros has entered into
October 07, 2009 Read Full Article
Fulcrum BioEnergy Makes Ethanol from Garbage
Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., a leader in the next generation of advanced biofuels, announced today that it has successfully demonstrated the ability to economically produce renewable ethanol. This milestone – achieved at the company’s TurningPoint Ethanol Demonstration Plant – confirms the
September 08, 2009 Read Full Article
Waste to Fuels Presentations Available
Videos of presentations from the 2009 Waste to Fuels Conference held May 17-19 in San Diego have been published. Topics include: overview of conversion technologies, use of forest waste, municipal solid waste and other waste feedstocks to make biofuels, along with sessions related to financing and
July 17, 2009 Read Full Article
Edmonton Waste-to-Energy Project Expands with Research Center
by Hanneke Brooymans (Edmonton Journal) ...There are three different pieces to the city's (Edmonton's) efforts to convert garbage to fuel. The largest piece is a waste-to-biofuel plant, which will begin construction late this year. The plant will be built by Enerkem
July 10, 2009 Read Full Article
California’s Looming Showdown over Waste Feedstocks
by Biofuels Digest special correspondent Scott Miller A showdown is looming in the California State Senate this summer over an issue that is at the heart of the nationwide drive to develop and deploy bioenergy conversion technologies. In a state
June 24, 2009 Read Full Article
US Department of Commerce Awards First Exclusive Bioreactor Patent to ATI Petroleum
ATI Petroleum, a petroleum exploration management and operations company, announced that the US Department of Commerce awarded the first patent on bioreactor technology to ATI Petroleum. The bioreactor technology was created through a collaborative effort with the US Department of Energy,
June 17, 2009 Read Full Article
Rentech Announces Plant to Produce Renewable Synthetic Diesel and Green Electric Power from Urban Waste
Rentech, Inc., announced a plan to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of ultra-clean synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The Rialto Renewable Energy Center (Rialto Project) is designed to produce approximately 600
May 13, 2009 Read Full Article
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