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Waste Management and Renmatix to explore conversion of urban waste to low-cost cellulosic sugar via supercritical hydrolysis

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Waste Management, Inc. The strategic investment and alliance aims to expand the feedstock flexibility of Renmatix’s proprietary Plantrose process beyond rural biomass to include materials derived from cost-effective and readily available urban waste material such as that managed by Waste Management. Earlier post.).

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ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

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The study, done with collaborators Wake Forest University and Georgia Institute of Technology and detailed in Chemistry Select , provides a pathway for inexpensive, environmentally benign and high value-added waste tire-derived products—a step toward large-scale biofuel production, according to ORNL co-author Parans Paranthaman.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: Create collaborations with the BOTTLE Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Partners include BASF and University of Georgia. Partners include InEnTec, Lululemon, and Waste Management.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. If successful, this.

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