Biorefining Monthly Update – 2017/10
NEWS IN BRIEF
Gevo to supply its
renewable alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) to Virgin Australia at Brisbane Airport.
Virgin Australia Group will be responsible
for coordinating the purchase, supply and blending of the ATJ into the fuel
supply system.
Gevo will supply the ATJ from its hydrocarbon
plant based in Silsbee (Texas). It is derived from isobutanol produced at its
commercial plant located in Luverne (Minnesota).
First test flights expected to be flown through
the end of 2018.
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Date of
the press release
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03/10/2017
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Topics
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ALCOHOL-TO-JET; ISOBUTANOL.
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Related
information
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Blog post
(08/09/2016): Gevo and Lufthansa sign agreement
for commercial supply of renewable Alcohol-To-Jet Fuel.
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Aemetis
commercializes advanced enzymatic biodiesel process.
Universal Biofuels (subsidiary of Aemetis in
India) achieved a major milestone in the commercial production of advanced
enzymatic biodiesel by processing one million pounds of low cost waste
feedstock unsuitable for use in traditional biodiesel production facilities.
In April 2017, Aemetis filed a patent on the
proprietary pretreatment process used by Universal Biofuels to enable the enzymatic
processing of waste oil feedstock to biodiesel.
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Date of
the press release
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05/10/2017
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Topics
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BIODIESEL.
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US DOE’s National Labs
(NREL, ANL and ORNL) to collaborate with Gevo to optimize catalyst performance
of an Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) process.
Gevo is developing its ETO technology, a
process using ethanol as a feedstock for the production of tailored mixes of
isobutylene, propylene, hydrogen and acetone.
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Date of
the press release
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09/10/2017
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Topics
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ETHANOL-TO-OLEFINS.
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ExxonMobil expands
New Jersey Research and Engineering Center including advancing algae biofuel
and carbon capture technologies.
It is expected to be completed in 2019.
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Date of
the press release
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13/10/2017
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Topics
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ALGAL BIOREFINERY.
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BioEnergy
International AG (BDI) invests roughly 16 M€ in the construction of an
industrial plant for production of algae biomass.
The highly automated plant will be located at
Hartberg (Styria, Austria).
It is based on an in-door breeding and fully
closed system.
As a first step, BDI together with 100%
daughter company BioLife Science GmbH will produce algae based additives for
the food supplement and cosmetic industry.
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Date of
the press release
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17/10/2017
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Topics
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ALGAL BIOREFINERY.
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Northwestern
Engineering will lead a new center dedicated to accelerating the production
of sustainable, low-cost biofuels and chemicals.
Called the Clostridia Foundry for Biosystems
Design, the multi-institutional center has received a five-year, 12 M$ grant
from the US Department of Energy. The center’s researchers (from
Northwestern, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and LanzaTech) will focus on
clostridia, a bacterium that metabolizes carbon to produce fuel.
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Date of
the press release
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17/10/2017
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Topics
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BIOFUELS; SUSTAINABLE CHEMICALS; CLOSTRIDIA.
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Velocys confirms the
site of its first biorefinery in USA.
It will be located in Natchez (Adams County,
Mississippi). Velocys has been offered an attractive package of economic
development incentives to locate the plant at this site.
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Date of
the press release
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20/10/2017
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Topics
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SYNGAS PLATFORM; COMMERCIAL BIOREFINERIES.
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Related
information
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Blog post
(29/06/2016): Velocys plans for the construction
of a commercial BTL plant move forward.
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Figure 1. Model of the algae biomass production
plant of BDI (extracted from the company website)
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INTERESTING LINKS
AND RESOURCES
- Web page
of the URBIOFIN project (“Demonstration of an integrated innovative biorefinery
for the transformation of Municipal Solid Waste into new biobased products”, H2020-BBI-JTI-2016).
- Video of the FALCON project
(“Fuel and chemicals from lignin through enzymatic and chemical conversion”, H2020-NMBP-BIO-2016).
- Posters
from the US Bioenergy Technologies Office to learn more about how bioproducts
are already part of our everyday life.
- Knowledgebook
of the ERIFORE project (“Research Infrastructure for Circular Forest Bioeconomy”,
H2020-INFRADEV-1-2014-1).
BLOG POSTS
04/10/2017
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09/10/2017
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16/10/2017
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19/10/2017
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23/10/2017
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24/10/2017
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25/10/2017
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30/10/2017
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COMING EVENTS
Check the whole list here.
November
8 | Puertollano
(Spain) | Demo event: Zero waste biorefineries (Project Valor Plus).
20 – 21 | Lodz
(Poland) | V European Bioeconomy Congress.
21 – 22 | Brussels
(Belgium) | European Bioenergy Future (EBF).
22 | Brussels
(Belgium) | Financing Bioeconomy Innovations (BIOECONFIN 2017).
27 – 29 | Ottawa
(Canada) | Scaling-up 2017.
29 | Brussels
(Belgium) | Final ERIFORE Workshop (Project ERIFORE: European Research
Infrastructure for Circular Forest Bioeconomy).
30/11 – 1/12 | Santander (Spain) | I Congreso Nacional sobre Bioeconomía
Forestal.
December
4 – 5 | Sao Paulo
(Brazil) | 8th International Conference on Biofuels, Bioenergy &
Bioeconomy.
7 | Brussels
(Belgium) | BBI JU Stakeholder Forum.
11 – 15 | Lyon
(France) | 4th International Congress on Catalysis for Biorefineries (CatBior
2017).
14 – 15 | Helsinki
(Finland) | 2017 Bioeconomy Investment Summit.
