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DSM and POET form major JV for cellulosic bioethanol; POET to decline $105M DOE loan guarantee

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Royal DSM and POET, LLC, one of the world’s largest ethanol producers, have formed a joint venture to commercially demonstrate and license cellulosic bioethanol based on their proprietary and complementary technologies. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. Iowa State University. Lead organization.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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will develop a commercially viable process for the production of bio-butanol, an advanced biofuel, from seaweed (macroalgae). Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. DuPont and Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. DOE grant: $9,000,000).

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Poet-DSM pausing production of cellulosic ethanol at Project Liberty, shifting to R blames EPA

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As part of this effort, the joint venture will use biomass stored on site or already under contract and will not purchase additional biomass at this time. Based on this plant, the JV plans to globally license an integrated technology package for the conversion of corn crop residue to cellulosic bio-ethanol.

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