United States – Sweetwater Energy and Gevo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding the use of sustainably sourced agricultural residues and woody biomass as a feedstock for producing cellulosic alcohols and energy-dense renewable liquid hydrocarbons.
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Canada – CHAR Technologies has begun surveying and geotechnical testing near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, at the intended location of its woody-biomass to renewable natural gas (RNG) High Temperature Pyrolysis (HTP) project.
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United States – According to a US Department of Energy research, over 1 billion tons of biomass could be collected and processed into biofuels in the US sustainably by 2030. However, putting that idea into practice will require advancements in how biomass is cultivated, gathered, and processed. This is especially true for developing feedstocks such […]
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Germany – The Coca-Cola Company, Changchun Meihe Science & Technology, and UPM announced plans for the first commercialization of technologies to efficiently convert second-generation biomass to plant-based monoethylene glycol (bMEG).
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Sustainable energy and materials, such as coatings and catalysts, come a step closer. Now that the collaborating parties in the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC) will continue their cooperation on making the chemical industry more sustainable over the next five years. AkzoNobel, BASF and Shell, together with the universities of Eindhoven, […]
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United States – Drax Group, the world’s largest sustainable biomass production and delivery firm, announced that work of the second of three satellite pellet factories in Arkansas has begun.
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RENOVA has finalized its investment decision (FID) in the large-scale biomass power production project being constructed through Karatsu Biomass Energy.
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United States – FECM, a department of the U.S. Department of Energy, gave $8 million in federal money for four projects that focus on developing and testing carbon dioxide (CO2) collection and utilization technologies that provide value products and services, biomass, and bi-products.
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Germany – The Finnish company UPM-Kymmene selected Siemens Energy to supply electrification, automation, and digitalization packages for a next-generation biorefinery currently under construction in Leuna, Germany.
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China- Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) have discovered that waste paper could be efficiently used for enzyme production by Trichoderma longiflorum.
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