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California Energy Commission Awards UCR $1M Grant for Waste to Synthetic Fuel Facility Using Steam Hydrogasification and Reforming Process

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The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. The fuel gas can also be converted into electric power.

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U Alberta spin-off Forge Hydrocarbons commercializing pyrolytic lipids-to-hydrocarbons process

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The process takes agricultural feedstocks such as animal fat, crop seed oil and restaurant grease, and converts them into drop-in liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The process also converts the same agricultural feedstocks into solvents and diluents. Bressler made his initial discovery in 2004 with funding from an NSERC Discovery grant.

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Velocys Awarded Commercialization Grant for Microchannel Reactor Technology for Hydroprocessing to Upgrade Fischer-Tropsch Fuels and Heavy Petroleum Feedstock

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year commercialization grant to apply Velocys’ microchannel reactor technology to hydroprocessing for transportation fuels. The project focuses on hydrocracking to upgrade Fischer-Tropsch fuels and heavy petroleum feedstock for jet and diesel fuel. The grant is part of the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier Project, a $1.6-billion,

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USDA to award $25M for R&D for next-generation biofuels

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The projects are funded by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative, established in the 2008 Farm Bill. Grant recipients are required to contribute a minimum of 20% matching funds for research and development projects and 50% matching funds for demonstration projects.

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Consortium Win $2.2M ARPA-E Award for Direct Solar Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuel Research; Biocatalytic Coatings Using Bacteria Embedded in Latex

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The photosynthetic organisms will use sunlight to convert CO 2 to sugar, which the Shewanella will then convert to bio-hydrocarbons. The goal is to build an integrated reactor system that very efficiently converts CO 2 into biofuel. Wackett (2008) Microbial-based motor fuels: science and technology. Lawrence P.

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Honeywell’s UOP receives $1.1M FAA contract to demonstrate technology for conversion of isobutanol from Gevo to aviation biofuels

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In September, Gevo received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. Honeywell’s UOP is a recognized leader in refining process technologies to convert natural oils, animal fats and biomass to sustainable green fuels.

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DOE to Award Up to $564M to 19 Integrated Biorefinery Projects

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million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program for its project to demonstrate an integrated algal biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds, and will use dewatering and oil extraction technology to produce an intermediate that will then be processed into drop-in green fuels such as jet fuel and diesel. DOE Grant Amount.

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