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Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

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AUGUST 15, 2021

Strategic Biofuels announced that its Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Test Well Program was successfully completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. LGF is the first renewable diesel fuel project to achieve this milestone.

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Renewable Carbon Diesel Louisiana

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DG Fuels (DGF), a provider of cellulosic drop-in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), signed a multi-year SAF offtake agreement with Air France KLM for up to 60,408 metric tons (21 million gallons) per year from DGF’s initial plant to be located in Louisiana.

France

France Fuel Louisiana Water

USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

USDA has reached an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a $91-million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Cool Planet to help the company finish construction on an advanced biofuel plant at the Port of Alexandria in Louisiana. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock.

Conversion

Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline

DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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JULY 22, 2010

Novomer will develop a process for converting waste CO 2 into a number of polycarbonate products (plastics) for use in the packaging industry. Novomer has secured site commitments in Rochester, NY, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Orangeburg, SC and Ithaca, NY where Phase 2 work will be performed. DOE Share: $18,417,989). Alcoa, Inc.

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Conversion CO2 San Antonio Carbon

Startup New Oil Resources commercializing hydrothermal process for conversion of biomass to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. Click to enlarge.

Oil

Oil Gasoline Commercial Conversion

Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing

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MARCH 31, 2014

Catalytic Conversion: Cool Planet has developed a number of proprietary catalytic conversion processes to convert these useful hydrocarbon components into different types of fuels. The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014.

Financing

Financing Renewable Companies Fuel

Sundrop Fuels partners with ThyssenKrupp Uhde for inaugural drop-in biogasoline plant

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MAY 23, 2012

a gasification-based drop-in advanced biofuels company ( earlier post ), is partnering with ThyssenKrupp Uhde for its inaugural biogasoline production facility near Alexandria, Louisiana ( earlier post ). The HTW process can convert a broad range of feedstocks—including biomasses or municipal waste—into syngas.

Fuel

Fuel Conversion Coal Convert

DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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AUGUST 27, 2020

REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

Carbon

Carbon Hybrid Electrical Electric

Study shows uncovers how beetle gut microbes serve as reactor for fuel production

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MARCH 12, 2019

This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass. Understanding how evolution has solved the complex lignocellulose to fuel conversation process can help us design better industrial mimics and find novel enzymes or pathways. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

Fuel

Fuel Production South Carolina Hydrogen

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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JUNE 24, 2010

USDA’s report identifies numerous biomass feedstocks to be utilized in developing biofuels and calls for the funding of further investments in research and development of: Feedstock; Sustainable production and management systems; Efficient conversion technologies and high-value bioproducts; and. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential.

Renewable

Renewable Standards Fuel Rhode Island

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Total DOE award: $12,299,828.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant

DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. DOE Share: $1,137,885). Air Products and Chemicals Inc.

Carbon

Carbon Industry Industrial Coal

UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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JULY 21, 2012

That plant, in Norco, Louisiana, will have the capacity to produce more than 9,300 barrels per day of renewable diesel product. More recently, UOP signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at another facility in Louisiana. Earlier post.) Hydroprocessing. Earlier post.)

Renewable

Renewable Fuel Oil Diesel

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia).

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

EV Driven

Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

Startup New Oil Resources commercializing hydrothermal process for conversion of biomass to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing

Sundrop Fuels partners with ThyssenKrupp Uhde for inaugural drop-in biogasoline plant

DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

Study shows uncovers how beetle gut microbes serve as reactor for fuel production

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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