The combined company will be the first within
the cellulosic ethanol industry to possess integrated end - to - end capabilities in pre-treatment, novel enzyme development, fermentation, engineering, and project development.
Diversa Corporation and Celunol Corp. have signed a definitive merger agreement to create a new leader in the emerging
cellulosic ethanol industry.
Companies should make use of infrastructures in place where capital costs can be minimized in order to integrate
a cellulosic ethanol industry into commercialization faster and more economically, Burke said.
If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build
a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.
The cellulosic ethanol industry is still in its infancy, Burke said, equating it to the starch - based ethanol industry in 1980.
When really pressed on why the USDA and the Obama administration continue to support corn based ethanol, they point to using it as helping support the fledgling
cellulosic ethanol industry, which seems to always be just 5 years away from commercial viability.
The cellulosic ethanol industry is beginning to emerge, with several commercial scale plants becoming operational in the United States, Europe, and Brazil.
Not exact matches
For
cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of
ethanol, the
ethanol industry says.
«When we started our company 27 years ago with a bankrupt corn
ethanol plant, there was the same question about that
industry as there is about
cellulosic: Would it ever be viable?»
Our TransFerm and TransFerm Yield + bioengineered yeast products are widely used in the corn
ethanol industry and our next generation products are ready to deploy for industrial
cellulosic ethanol production.
When reading about the potentials of
cellulosic ethanol, I find very few optimists who are not financially tied to the
industry and the government support that the
industry relies on.
The Q Microbe ™ is used to make
cellulosic ethanol from plant waste and could transform the energy
industry by making
ethanol more quickly and cost effectively than conventional technologies.
Also, it will move BlueFire closer to a debt financing agreement with the Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture,» stated Arnold Klann, CEO of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. «This is one of the first
cellulosic ethanol contracts of its kind in the United States establishing BlueFire as a clear leader in the
industry.»
The agreement calls for support of the «rapidly growing wind energy, corn
ethanol and biodiesel
industries,» and for recognition of the «potential for robust
cellulosic biomass and solar
industries.»
Ending the Energy Stalemate: historic report by bipartisan experts from
industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups breaks ground in endorsing plug - in hybrids: grid of options points to PHEVs fueled by
cellulosic ethanol or bio-diesel as an optimal solution: see extraordinarily clear Summary Matrix outlining options (view or download 78KB PDF from CalCars) or read pages 70 - 78 in entire report (2.3 MB PDF from NCEP).
Washington originally figured the
industry could produce 1 billion gallons of
cellulosic ethanol annually by 2013, so that's where it set the mandate for last year.
In 2012, the U.S. biofuel
industry produced only 20,069 gallons of
cellulosic ethanol, according to Climatewire.
The study also recommends that the RFS schedule «be revised to reflect the
ethanol industry's inability to produce commercially viable
cellulosic fuels.»
The first large - scale commercial operation to produce
cellulosic ethanol (the kind of
ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil
industry, and will be online in 2013.