Using biomass to produce energy makes sense because biomass and biofuels made from biomass are alternative energy sources to fossil fuels—coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Thus, while burning fossil fuels or biomass does release carbon…
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Process Integration in Industrial Biotechnology / Synthetic Biology
What does an expert in process integration in the field of industrial biotechnology or synthetic biology do? First, let’s define terms. These two terms are frequently interchanged, but are not exactly synonymous; synthetic biology should…
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Co-Processing Biomass
Co-processing biomass with fossil carbon feeds and/or wastes? The adoption of renewable chemicals and fuels is a necessity for the future. However, our current fossil carbon-based economy has created a highly efficient infrastructure for processing…
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Ethanol Gas
Ethanol gas is the mixture of ethanol with gasoline. Ethanol is an alcohol fuel made from plant material, such as corn, sugar cane, grasses, or woody biomass. The worldwide use of ethanol as a fuel…
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RIN Experts
What do RIN experts do? A Renewable Identification Number (or RIN) is a serial number assigned to the volume of a batch of biofuel for the purpose of tracking its production, transfers, trading, and ultimate…
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Coal Gasification
Coal has historically been used to supply electricity, with most burned at coal-fired power plants. Coal gasification is a newer thermo-chemical process in which the gasifier’s heat and pressure break down coal into basic chemical…
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Protein Quality is Key As Biofuels Co Product
Many producers of biofuels tend to think of co-products in terms of protein quantity – i.e., the percentage of crude protein. While “quantity” is an important number, it has the greatest application for ruminants (animals…
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Biomass Gasification Expert
Biomass gasification is the process of turning some variety of biomass into higher-value products. This is most often done by converting a material containing carbon (like coal, biomass, waste, petroleum coke, etc.) —into syngas. This…
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Alternative Energy
Alternative energy refers to a wide range of energy generation processes that do not deplete natural resources or harm the environment. Are alternative and renewable energy the same thing? While they certainly contain a great…
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Investing in Renewable Technology
As more investors are examining renewable technology investment, renewable fuels, and chemical projects, new technologies continue to emerge worldwide. As new developers come into the marketplace, most earnestly believing they have unique and superior new…
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