Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the Biofuels Industry? Every producing biofuels plant selling feed co-products to any animal species should be aware of, and in full compliance with, the rules laid out in the…
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Biotechnology – What is It?
In the emerging bioeconomy, the term “biotechnology” most often refers to the use of a biological process for an industrial purpose like the production of biofuels and biochemicals. There are many types of biotechnologies, including…
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Natural Gas Conversion
Natural gas is projected to be a significant part of America’s energy mix in the coming years. With breakthrough developments in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the US is today the world’s largest natural gas…
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Renewable Energy Plant Engineering
Engineers experienced in renewable energy plant engineering understand that there are unique aspects of the industry that necessitates the heavy reliance on specific industry best practices in the execution of engineering for renewable energy projects. Some…
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Plastic Waste Recycling
Plastic is one of the most widely used and cheapest materials in the world today and plastic waste recycling is no longer optional. Virtually everything we use is either made from or wrapped in plastic….
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Biofuels from the Oil & Gas Perspective
The origins of biofuels can be found in the cellulose ethanol efforts of WW2 and even before early automakers learned that remote farmers might even divert some of the family’s moonshine to keep the car…
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Renewable Electricity Experts
The bioeconomy is defined as the knowledge-based production and utilization of biological resources, biological processes, and principles to sustainably provide goods and services across all economic sectors. It involves using renewable biological resources sustainably to…
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Bioeconomy – Its Changing Nature
During the period of time from about 2000 to 2013, most of the activity in the bioeconomy was focused on commodity products, especially fuels. The main products were ethanol and butanol, and the root technology…
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Methanol Experts
Methanol (CH₃OH) is a chemical and is the simplest alcohol. Also known as methyl alcohol or wood alcohol (since it was originally produced mainly by the distillation of wood), methanol today is mainly produced industrially…
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Polymer Pyrolysis
Recent revelations help us understand the need for polymer pyrolysis, noting that a very large fraction of the polymers (plastics) that we recycle end up in landfills anyway have outraged some and raised widespread concern…
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