Where is biofuels investment in 2020? According to the IEA (2020), biofuels investment fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2019. The Paris Agreement calls to limit the rise in global temperatures. Advanced…
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Assessing Biotechnology Feasibility
Assessing Biotechnology Feasibility. As new and exciting biotechnologies continue to arrive in the marketplace, funding sources (investors, lenders, venture capitalists, etc.) continue to be faced with some difficult decisions. Those seeking funding seem to always…
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Microbial Fermentation
Microbial fermentation is the growth of a microorganism, usually a bacterium, yeast, or filamentous fungus in a liquid medium to transform one material into another using the microbe’s metabolism as the manufacturing process to result…
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Hemp Eligibility for USDA Programs Under the 2018 Farm Bill
Hemp Eligibility for USDA Programs? Hemp is an eligible renewable biomass feedstock for USDA rural development programs including Section 9003 (innovative new technologies), REAP (energy production- biofuels, electricity production) and B&I (commercially proven processes/technologies). Normally…
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Oil and Gas Looks at Biofuels
Oil and Gas Look at Biofuels by Larry Sullivan A few, not many, myself included, enjoyed a substantial career in oil and gas before joining the bioeconomy. Oil and gas feature much in the way…
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Biofuels from Waste
Producing biofuels from waste is now becoming more of a possibility. We note that in many of the earlier methods, it was simply not was not economically feasible to convert organic waste to fuel as…
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Biomass Technology Experts
Biomass Technology Experts. While there are many types of biomass conversion technologies, they are primarily divided into four major groups. The first group are thermal conversion technologies – those that use heat to convert biomass…
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Current Federal Bioeconomy Funding Opportunities
Need information on current federal bioeconomy funding opportunities? Our website has recently added two new pages that may be of value to you. The first is our new Government Programs & Resources Page. This page…
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Biomass Energy Conversion
What is biomass energy conversion? Biomass is organic, meaning it comes from living organisms like plants and animals. In biomass energy conversion, the common biomass materials used for energy are plants, wood, and waste –…
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Glycerin as Anti-Freeze Agent for Coal
Glycerin as Anti-Freeze Agent for Coal? Anyone who has produced biodiesel knows that glycerin can set up like wax if the process is over-catalyzed and/or animal fats are used as feedstocks. More than one of…
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