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Bridgestone Turanza EV grand touring tire for EVs makes world debut

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The Bridgestone Turanza EV tire is the first replacement market tire in North America to feature ENLITEN technology ( earlier post ), which is engineered to help optimize all-season performance, provide longer wear life, and allow for the incorporation of renewable and recycled materials in its tire products.

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Amyris introduces EvoShield line of renewably-sourced synthetic industrial lubricants

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unveiled EvoShield, its new product line of industrial lubricants. EvoShield lubricants will be formulated from NovaSpec renewably-sourced synthetic base oils, derived from Amyris’ Biofene and produced by Novvi, Amyris’ joint venture with Brazil’s Cosan. in North Carolina. Amyris, Inc.

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DOE awards $6M to advance cost-competitive drop-in biofuels

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DOE is targeting the production of cost-competitive drop-in biofuels at $3 per gallon by 2017. million to produce a bio-crude oil from algal biomass that will maximize the amount of renewable carbon recovered for use in fuel and reduce the nitrogen content of the product in order to meet fuel quality standards.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas in New York and North Carolina, and the expansion of an already established BCAP project area in Arkansas. targeted for the heart of North Carolina, where it will grow more than 4,000 acres of Freedom Giant Miscanthus and switch grass.

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Amyris commissions commercial production facility at Tate & Lyle; first in US

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has commissioned its third industrial-scale commercial facility—its first in the US—for the production of Biofene, its renewable farnesene. The production facility is located in Decatur, Ill., in North Carolina. Amyris, Inc. at a facility owned by Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc.,

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SRI wins $925,000 DOE award to liquefy biomass for production of transportation fuels

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Southern Research Institute (SRI) entered into a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a mild liquefaction process that will economically convert biomass to petroleum refinery-ready bio-oils. Other liquefaction processes either use severe conditions or expensive catalysts to achieve stability. Earlier post.).

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Supercritical Ethanol Liquefaction of Swine Manure to Produce Bio-oils

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Researchers from North Carolina A and T State University have converted swine manure to bio-oils by using ethanol as a solvent in an autoclave in the reaction temperature range of 240-360 °C without any catalyst. Bio-oils can be upgraded to transportation fuels. annual consumption of petroleum oil in the US.

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