Tag: biofuels
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Fluor Corporation to Help Cobalt Technologies Produce Biofuels
Cobalt Technologies, a developer of the renewable fuel biobutanol, in Mountain View, California, has signed an agreement with Fluor Corporation, a global engineering and project management company. Fluor will provide engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services to help Cobalt gear up for commercializing its biobutanol production technology, as well as for Cobalt’s demonstration and commercial-scale…
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Clean Tech Venture Capital Hits $1.5 Billion in 2nd Quarter
Venture capital (VC) investment in U.S. clean technology (cleantech) companies in the second quarter of 2010 hit $1.5 billion in 68 financing rounds, according to an Ernst & Young analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. Automotive, solar, and alternative fuel companies attracted the most investment dollars. Ernst & Young says this was the…
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Biotech Company Finds Genes Enabling One-Step Biofuel Process
A team from LS9 Inc., in South San Francisco, California published results of research describing the discovery of engineered genes that create alkanes — the hydrocarbon building blocks of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel — from sugar. The company says this discovery, published in today’s issue of Science magazine, accelerates the process of converting biomass…
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Cellulosic Ethanol Company to Build R&D Center
The Boston Business Journal reports that Qteros Inc., a Marlborough, Massachusetts company making cellulosic ethanol, will open a new research and development facility in Chicopee, Massachusetts by the end of 2010. CEO John McCarthy tells the Journal the 15,000 square-foot plant will allow for fermentation of biomass on a larger scale than is now possible…
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New Patent Application Filed for Pyrolysis Oil Biofuel
Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels (NGBF) in Columbia, Maryland said today it has filed a patent application for their new pyrolysis oil based biofuels. Pyrolysis oil is a synthetic fuel extracted through a technology that converts biomass to liquid under extreme heat in the absence of oxygen. “We have been able to readily and…
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External Combusion Engine Tests Burning Oil from BP Spill
Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. of Pompano Beach, Florida reports it has performed combustion acceptability tests of crude oil recovered from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with its heat-regenerative external combustion engine. The Cyclone engine burns its fuel in an external combustion chamber, with heat from this process used to turn water…
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Biotech Company Delivers Algae-based Jet Fuel to U.S. Navy
Solazyme Inc. in South San Francisco, California has delivered 1,500 gallons of 100 percent algae-based jet fuel for the U.S. Navy’s testing and certification program. The delivery fulfills a contract awarded to Solazyme in September 2009. The Navy previously announced its objective to operate at least 50 percent of its fleet on renewable fuel by…
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Biotech-Manufacturing Partnership to Open Biodiesel Pilot Plant
Novozymes, a Danish maker of industrial enzymes, and Piedmont Biofuels, a biofuels manufacturer and coop in Pittsboro, North Carolina, will unveil tomorrow a new pilot plant demonstrating improved process for the production of biodiesel. The companies say this is the first pilot plant of its kind in the United States and uses a new method…
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Algae Biofuels Project Advances from Lab to Greenhouse
The oil and gas company Exxon Mobil Corporation and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) opened today a greenhouse to provide more real-life conditions in their algae biofuels program. The facility is located on the SGI campus in La Jolla, California. SGI specializes in commercial applications of genomic research. SGI and Exxon Mobil researchers are using the…