Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering a conditional commitment for a $105- million loan guarantee to support the development of a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. Project LIBERTY, sponsored by POET, LLC, will produce up to 25 million gallons of ethanol per year and will be located in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Earlier post.).

Iowa 236

Iowa Waste 2013 Convert 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Iowa State University (ISU) researchers and their colleagues at the Iowa Energy Center have developed a novel process for converting cellulose and related materials to high-value chemicals with low molecular weights. The Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. has filed for a patent of the technology.

Iowa 199

Iowa Conversion Nevada Convert 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

POET-DSM’s long-anticipated Project LIBERTY , the US’ first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock ( earlier post ), began production today. Once operating at full, commercial-scale, the biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

Waste 218

Waste Iowa Florida Conversion 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

NRGreen Power is involved in the commercial development of electrical generation opportunities associated with the Canadian portion of the APL natural gas pipeline system by recovering and converting waste heat at compressor stations and transforming it into electricity. The Alliance Pipeline transports approximately 1.6

Waste 255

Waste North Dakota Gas-Electric Iowa 255

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

In combination with Syngenta’s proprietary Enogen corn trait, ACE technology allows the fiber as well as the starch in a corn kernel to be converted into ethanol. The adoption of Enogen in ethanol plants is accelerating, with six commercial contracts signed. The introduction of ACE technology will further drive growth.

Production 218

Production Iowa Fuel 2014 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

Catilin and its partner, Iowa State University - Center for Catalysis (ISU-CCAT), will provide key extraction, sequestration and conversion technologies. The balance of the algal oil, which contains free fatty acids (FFA) and triglycerides, will be converted to biodiesel using Catilin’s commercially available T300 catalyst.

Conversion 170

Conversion Iowa 2007 Oil 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

Fiberight’s TFE process recognizes that sold waste is neither homogeneous nor fully convertible to energy. Fiberight has developed a system that bifurcates organic and inorganic wastes and converts them according to type. The company brought a pre-commercial plant in Blairstown, Iowa on line in May.

Waste 186

Waste Iowa Convert Cleaning 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. In the paper, BIO cites Dr. P.

Universal 170

Universal Oil Grant Iowa 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

million in cash and/or shares of REG common stock consideration for achievement of certain milestones over the next five years related to the development and commercialization of products from LS9’s technology. The resulting catalysts selectively convert a diversity of feedstocks to a final product in a single-step fermentation process.

Renewable 199

Renewable Companies Energy San Francisco 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Edeniq’s Cellunator enables plants to mill corn and other plant materials into small, uniform pieces of feedstock that can be converted into sugars needed to produce biofuels. Flint Hills will also conduct commercial testing and scale-up of Edeniq’s Pathway platform.

Renewable 170

Renewable Fort Worth Iowa Minnesota 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

About 900 million gallons of ethanol produced at ADM’s dry mills in Columbus, Nebraska, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as well as its Decatur, Illinois, complex, is expected to be processed utilizing this technology, resulting in approximately 500 million gallons of SAF and other renewable hydrocarbons. —Gevo CEO Patrick Gruber, Ph.D.

Fuel 218

Fuel Columbus Nebraska Iowa 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The plasma reformer, installed into the engine compartment, convert fuel into hydrogen. In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale.

Hydrogen 279

Hydrogen Engine Energy Batteries 279

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The first plants start commercial production of advanced biofuels this year. With our new product, Cellic CTec3, and the first plants starting commercial production, this is a huge step forward in the transition from an oil-based economy to a bio-based economy. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel.

Waste 210

Waste Iowa Gasoline Virginia 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

An existing 250,000-gallon per year cellulosic integrated demonstration plant at the site is currently generating operational data that will provide information needed for the commercial scale project, which will be located on an adjacent site. The announcement is the second guaranteed loan under the Biorefinery Assistance Program (Sec.

Iowa 199

Iowa 2008 Waste Oregon 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Many OEMs are expanding aluminum use from heat exchangers, wheels, drive shafts, engine blocks, hoods and deck lids to developing aluminum intensive vehicles (AIVs) by converting the body in white, or body structure, to aluminum. We’re excited to see it commercialized.

Iowa 199

Iowa Conversion Commercial 2013 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Further, overcoming the corrosive degradation of these “artificial photosynthesis” systems remains a challenge and has thus far eluded commercialization. Our teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Iowa have been working diligently to achieve efficient renewable hydrogen production.

Low Cost 246

Low Cost Water Hydrogen Solar 246

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The endosperm is fermented to created ethanol, while the remaining fractions are converted into value-added co-products such as Dakota Gold HP. BPX, POET’s raw starch hydrolysis process, converts starch to sugar and ferments to ethanol with the use of enzymes rather than heat (a “no-cook” process). Cereal Chem. 79(1):1–18.

Production 150

Production Green Iowa 2002 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

This project will address the need for the development of a commercially available, platform-independent Quality Assurance technology for high-volume AM production of aerospace components, which is currently lacking within the industry. Iowa State University; John Deere; Kennametal Inc.; FineLine Prototyping, Inc.;

Manufacturer 225

Manufacturer Universal El Paso North Carolina 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. DuPont and Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. DOE grant: $9,000,000). DOE grant: $5,992,697). High Yielding, Low Input Energy Crops. CARBON CAPTURE.

Energy 231

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These vehicles will be the first electric transit buses deployed in Iowa. This project will be the first commercial deployment of articulated fuel cell buses in the US. The City of Madison has a goal to convert the fleet to 50% electric by 2035. Project partners are MidAmerican Energy and Proterra. 54,992,016.

Purchase 191

Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet 191

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California.

Las Vegas 36

Las Vegas 2009 San Francisco Iowa 36

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

It also offered new income opportunities for farmers improving the rural economy; created a use for crop residue; and encouraged commercialization of advanced biofuels that have 85-95% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline.

EPA 170

EPA South Dakota Production Iowa 170