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OCTOBER 6, 2021
Biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group joined Iowa State University (ISU) at the BioCentury Research Farm (BCRF) to mark the start of a new hydrotreater pilot plant. REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel.
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MAY 4, 2021
In August 2020, Phillips 66 announced that it planned to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant will no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead will make fuels from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils. Earlier post.).
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DECEMBER 13, 2012
has successfully completed multiple initial fermentations at ADM’s Clinton, Iowa facility. Solazyme is initially targeting annual production of 20,000 metric tons of oil starting in early 2014 at the ADM facility, with targeted expansion to 100,000 metric tons. Solazyme, Inc. Earlier post.).
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JANUARY 30, 2014
announced that commercial production of its renewable algal oils has begun at both Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)’s Clinton, Iowa facility, and the downstream companion facility operated by American Natural Products in Galva, Iowa (ANP). Solazyme, Inc.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Separately, Solazyme and Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, a leading global agricultural processor, signed strategic collaboration, manufacturing and market development agreements in which Solazyme and ADM will produce Solazyme’s tailored algal oils in ADM’s advanced fermentation plant at Clinton, Iowa. Solazyme, Inc., Earlier post.).
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
Valero Renewable Fuels Company LLC, a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, plans to install an ICM-patent pending, next-generation Advanced Oil System (AOS) corn oil extraction system at four of its ethanol plants in the Midwest by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
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MAY 13, 2014
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed bi-functional nanoparticles that perform two processing functions at once for the production of renewable diesel via the hydrogenation of oils from renewable feedstocks such as algae. We no longer saw the cracking of molecules. —Igor Slowing.
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