Not exact matches
Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus
facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons
of cellulosic
ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.
Previously developed techniques for generating hydrogen from
ethanol are best suited to large - scale production at specialized
facilities, however, because they require external sources
of heat.
Each day the
facility would convert 1,000 tons
of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons
of ethanol.
At a biofuels energy symposium hosted by the Institute
of Medicine
of the National Academies last week in Washington, D.C., professor Jerald Schnoor said corn
ethanol production
facilities require large quantities
of high - purity water during the fermentation process.
A key issue is the conversion
of existing corn
ethanol and sugarcane
ethanol facilities into integrated cellulose / starch / sugar production
facilities.
Since transportation and storage
of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels
facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in
ethanol production.
Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several
facilities in the United States are on the verge
of making commercial cellulosic
ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.
LanzaTech has partnered with Global Fortune 500 Companies and others to use this technology, including
facilities that can each produce 100,000 gallons per year
of ethanol, and a number
of chemical ingredients for the manufacture
of plastics.
These
facilities and those that follow will be driven by the same dynamic as grain
ethanol, namely that industry profitability will be driven by ongoing reduction
of processing costs such as enzymes and energy, as well as by increasing yields.
The Envest Loan is to purchase shares in an ag processing plant intended to process North Dakota products or for the purchase
of equity shares in a North Dakota feedlot or dairy operation that feeds a byproduct
of an
ethanol or biodiesel
facility.
For feedlot / dairy operations feeding a byproduct
of an
ethanol or biodiesel
facility: Borrowers are eligible for an interest buydown
of up to 4.00 % which may be used to reduce the borrower's interest rate on loans made by a local lender and BND, subject to a minimum rate
of 1.00 % to the borrower.
Purchase
of equity shares in a North Dakota feedlot or dairy operation that feeds a byproduct
of an
ethanol or biodiesel
facility
MLPs on brokerage firm Stifel's buy list include Green Plains Partners (GPP, $ 18, 11.0 %), which owns and operates storage tanks, terminals and other
facilities for Green Plains Inc., the world's second - largest owner
of ethanol production plants.
Feedlot or dairy operations must feed a byproduct
of ethanol or biodiesel
facility.
The best biofuel is still
ethanol from corn but it has to be part
of an integrated production
facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part
of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder
of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.
While
ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a
facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some
of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.
IRVINE, Calif. and MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 27 — BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE.ob — News), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production
of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced a contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire's planned cellulosic
ethanol facility in Fulton, -LSB-...]
Such biomass, or cellulosic,
ethanol is now likely to see commercial production begin first in a
facility of the Canadian company, Iogen, with backing from Shell Oil, at a cost
of around $ 1.30 / gallon.
Mike Ewall is the founder and director
of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry
facilities such as coal power plants,
ethanol plants, natural gas
facilities, landfills and incinerators
of every sort.
If all
of those cellulosic
facilities that you have been talking about for years had delivered we would be swimming in cellulosic
ethanol.
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.
The Port
of Morrow
facility, which will be modeled after the company's new Madera, California plant, is expected to provide
ethanol for Pacific Northwest transportation markets.
A trial at the Archer Daniel Midlands Company biofuel
facility is currently removing 1 million tonnes
of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by pumping CO2 from the production
of corn - based
ethanol into rocks 7000 feet below.
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.
Investments in these next - generation
ethanol pathways are being made across the United States, and are creating jobs through the construction
of commercial - scale production
facilities.
Milner went onto say that TMO Renewables had just completed commissioning the UK's first demonstration - scale cellulosic
ethanol facility, after nearly a year
of construction.
It is that these several anecdotes about poorly managed waste streams at
ethanol producing
facilities in Minnesota are symptomatic
of much broader problems with biofuel development that could be easily averted.
Here are the rest
of the details: 100,000 Tons Cassava Flour = 36,000 Tons
of Ethanol Located in Pongnea Leu, the
facility will create 192 new jobs and will encourage farmers to grow greater quantities
of cassava.
The
facility will be built on 10 acres near Lancaster, California and is not expected to begin producing
ethanol until late 2009, The location was chosen because
of the abundant waste that already passes by the location: An estimated 170 tons
of wood chips, grass cuttings, and organic waste each day.
(1) Feedstock other than corn; (2) Decentralized network
of small advanced biofuel manufacturing
facilities; (3) Variable blending pumps in lieu
of splash blending; and (4) Hydrous
ethanol.