A French biotechnology firm and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. have signed an exclusive, worldwide option-to-license agreement to sole use of new technologies for converting biomass to ethanol and hydrogen.
Biomethodes is an Evry-based firm specializing in industrial biotechnology, especially enzymes that are critical in major industrial processes.
French Firm Partners with Tech to Create Biofuel
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Posted in Biofuels on 2008-06-27 | No Comments »
Germany’s RWE Innogy has laid the foundation stone for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at the Wittgenstein inter-municipal industry park, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The developer of the plant is RWE Innogy Cogen GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy. The plant’s rated output will be approximately 30 MW of thermal energy and [...]
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Biotechnology offers some of the best opportunities to create a more sustainable world, with applications as diverse as new sources of energy, new materials for industrial and consumer uses and high quality agricultural products with better production economics. Despite all this, for new products and technologies to be truly sustainable according to an international panel [...]
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Petrotec AG has put its new biodiesel plant in Emden, Germany into full production. The plant in Emden’s seaport has an annual capacity of 100,000 tons (approximately 113 million liters). In addition to production facilities, the plant also contains a refinery, storage tanks, a laboratory and its own loading and unloading unit for inland and [...]
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Gasrec, BOC, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, and waste management company SITA UK, have announced that production of liquid biomethane (LBM) fuel is underway at Gasrec’s plant on SITA UK’s Albury landfill site in Surrey, UK.
The Albury plant will produce some 5000 tons of LBM per year, sufficient to fuel up to 150 Heavy [...]
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Posted in Biofuels on 2008-06-23 | No Comments »
GE Energy is providing two of its Jenbacher gas engines for a new 2-megawatt (MW) landfill gas-to-energy plant on the small French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean, 680 kilometers east of Madagascar.
GE is supplying two of its JMS 320 GS/L.L gas engines for the plant being installed near the town of Saint-Pierre. [...]
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Posted in Biofuels, Europe on 2008-06-18 | No Comments »
Biomass is likely to have a crucial role in Europe’s ability to meet its targets for renewable use by 2020, according to a new report, ‘ Strategic Assessment for European Biomass Energy Markets’ from Frost & Sullivan. Biomass, says the report, is the largest renewable resource in use and offers cost effective and sustainable opportunities [...]
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Biomass will play a significant role in the European energy market in the future. In fact, it is shaping up to have a crucial part in fulfilling the 20 per cent target set for renewables use by 2020. The [...]
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Bio Energy Plantations Pte Ltd (BEP) announced that it has signed an MOU with biodiesel producer Van Der Horst Biodiesel Pte. The agreement relates to supplying jatropha oil. Van Der Horst also agreed to join BEP in the development of a 6,000 hectare jatropha plantation in India, enabling the rapid ramp up of large scale [...]
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Endicott Biofuels, LLC (EBF) and Davy Process Technology Limited (DPT), a Johnson Matthey company, have entered into a long-term, multi-plant, technical collaboration to develop a new generation of biodiesel production facilities in the U.S.
Under the agreement, EBF will be licensed to use DPT’s esterification technology in North America for a class of biodiesel plants that [...]
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