You may have read about cellulosic ethanol company Verenium opening up the first demonstration - scale
cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States two months or so ago.
You may have read how Verenium recently opened the first demonstration - scale
cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States.
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No venture capitalist is going to build
a cellulosic ethanol plant without a market for the ethanol, and a supply of wood chips, switchgrass, waste paper, corn stover....
The Standard Alcohol Company built
a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process waste wood from a lumber mill (PDA 1910).
Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial
cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.
A projected 2,000 - ton - per - day
cellulosic ethanol plant could potentially use up to 5,000 tons of enzyme per year, and half of that enzyme cocktail could be from this enzyme family.
They are all suppliers to Project Liberty, the first large - scale commercial
cellulosic ethanol plant in the Corn Belt, set to open today.
A joint venture of corn ethanol giant POET and Dutch biotechnology corporation, DSM, it is the first of three big new
cellulosic ethanol plants opening in the U.S. heartland in the coming weeks.
A handful of other
cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).
With competition for plant waste among
cellulosic ethanol plants, landscapers, and a range of other users, added to the fact that millions of cell phones are made each year, it could quickly become yet another burden on the earth to be using so much compostable, good - for - the - soil plant matter for cell phone frames.
An example is the comercial scale
cellulosic ethanol plants recieving large U. S. Government grants to start construction.
Not exact matches
In nature, the resilient lignin polymer helps provide the scaffolding for
plants, reinforcing slender
cellulosic fibers — the primary raw ingredient of
cellulosic ethanol — and serving as a protective barrier against disease and predators.
Biofuel researchers are working to change that, envisioning a future where
cellulosic ethanol, an alcohol derived from
plant sugars, is as common and affordable at the gas station as gasoline.
Cellulosic ethanol — fuel derived from woody
plants and waste biomass — has the potential to become an affordable, renewable transportation fuel that rivals gasoline, but lignin, one of the most ubiquitous components of the
plant cell wall, gets in the way.
«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?»
It gives
plants their structure, and it's the critical substance needed to make
cellulosic ethanol.
Moving forward, Smith's group seeks to further validate molecular dynamics simulations as a predictive tool by modeling a genetically modified form of switchgrass, another
plant targeted for
cellulosic ethanol.
Qteros, a company based in Hadley, Mass., is using a proprietary bacterium it calls the «Q microbe» to break down
cellulosic plants and convert them to
ethanol.
AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of
cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn
ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only
plants.
That method could make a difference in
cellulosic biofuel
plants, which produce
ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.
Such
cellulosic ethanol from native
plants would also require technological breakthroughs to efficiently convert
plant leaves, stems and other inedible parts into fuel.
Cellulosic's slow path to commercial use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fl
Cellulosic's slow path to commercial use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of
cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fl
cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fla.,
plant.
The
plants, which include many grasses targeted for
cellulosic ethanol, can be harvested when needed and, given their hardiness, grow on marginal land.
The
cellulosic ethanol industry is beginning to emerge, with several commercial scale
plants becoming operational in the United States, Europe, and Brazil.
Edeniq, Inc. developed a low - cost, low carbon intensity technology for the conversion of
cellulosic biomass (
plant material) to
ethanol.
In contrast,
cellulosic ethanol production entails mowing
plants as they grow — often on land that is already in conservation reserve.
They see small - scale
cellulosic refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill
plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing
ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.
The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million gallons of
cellulosic ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental
plants is only about 3 to 4 million gallons, he said.
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.
Many of the corn
ethanol plants can be easily modified to produce
cellulosic ethanol from the waste of farm crops.
Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying
cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power
plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.
And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build a
cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot -
plant (we hope) that will produce
ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the
ethanol.
Based on the cost for
plants like the one BP proposed in Florida, the cost could be 10 times higher for a
cellulosic plant than a corn
ethanol one, at least for the first
plants, says Wallace Tyner, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.
Patrick Barta, «Jatropha
Plant Gains Steam in Global Race for Biofuels,» Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2007; «Shell Boosts Stake in Iogen
Cellulosic Ethanol,» Reuters, 15 July 2008; FAO, State of Food and Agriculture 2008 (Rome: 2008), p. 47.
By deriving it from inedible
plant matter such as switchgrass, wood chips, and wheat straw, the hope is that
cellulosic ethanol could supplement our transportation fuels in a way that is more efficient and has fewer harmful impacts on the environment and food prices than corn - based
ethanol.
BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food
cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned
cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power
plant as part of the facility.
Cheaper
Cellulosic Ethanol The bacteria in compost heaps could help us create cheaper cellulosic ethanol, or plant - waste - to - energy c
Cellulosic Ethanol The bacteria in compost heaps could help us create cheaper cellulosic ethanol, or plant - waste - to - energy conv
Ethanol The bacteria in compost heaps could help us create cheaper
cellulosic ethanol, or plant - waste - to - energy c
cellulosic ethanol, or plant - waste - to - energy conv
ethanol, or
plant - waste - to - energy conversion.
Since
cellulosic ethanol is created by using all of the parts of the
plant being used (instead of the 10 %, mainly the edible part, of the
plant), in all likelihood, if this process turns out to work as advertised, we could use the discarded parts of corn, or non-edible
plants such as switchgrass, so food production would not have to be drastically increased.
Cellulosic ethanol, which can be derived from virtually any
plant matter including farm waste, looks particularly promising.
On Monday POET, a privately held company that is the country's largest
ethanol producer, announced details of an $ 8 million pilot
cellulosic -
ethanol plant in the company's home state of South Dakota, which started production in December.