PyroGenesis Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Pyro Green-Gas Inc., has signed a $1.1 million second contract with the Varennes Carbon Recycling plant, a large biofuel production project currently under construction in Varennes, Quebec.
A new instrument from CFR Engines Inc. helps ethanol producers detect water contamination and determine fuel quality.
Advanced waste heat integrated heat pump application reduces distillation and slurry steam use by over 80%.
Haffner Energy, LanzaTech, and LanzaJet on Jan. 28 announced they are working together to explore joint biomass-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects covering the entire production value chain.
SAF Magazine, in collaboration with the CAAFI, has announced the 2025 North American SAF Conference & Expo will be held Sept. 22-24 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Speaker abstracts can be submitted through May 9.
RCM Thermal Kinetics, a division of RCM Technologies Inc., has launched its New Ethanol eXpansion Technology (NEXT) program, which is designed to enhancing production capacity and energy efficiency without major equipment replacement.
Comstock Inc. on Jan. 21 announced that its subsidiary, Comstock Fuels Corp., has executed an agreement with Hexas Biomass Inc., securing exclusive rights to Hexas’ intellectual properties in liquid fuels applications.
The February edition of Ethanol Producer Magazine focuses on technology innovations and increased sustainability.
Enhancing Every Batch
By Luke Geiver
January 01, 2025
New bacteria control and plant hygiene products are improving quality—and quantity.
Ethanol Producer Magazine and BBI International are now accepting speaker presentation proposals for the 2025 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW). The event is scheduled for June 9-11, 2025, in Omaha, Nebraska.
The latest issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine addresses crop science, yeast engineering, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and the coproduction of ethanol and renewable natural gas (RNG).
Major yeast suppliers are offering new products, enhanced benefits and strain characteristics that reveal how the industry continues to evolve.
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now presented a method for effectively converting carbon dioxide into ethanol, which is then available as a sustainable raw material for chemical applications.
Fluid Quip Technologies is pleased to announce that the São Martinho Boa Vista unit in Quirinópolis, Goiás, Brazil is exceeding projected performance including capacity and ethanol output.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Nov. 13 announced the release of its latest Pathways to Commercial Liftoff report, which underscores the near-term potential for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to meaningfully decarbonize the aviation sector.
While the actions U.S. ethanol producers are taking to decarbonize, from backing low-carbon farming to investing in CCUS, are almost entirely driven by domestic policy incentives, their benefits will be global.
The future of the ethanol industry in both the U.S. and Canada will be shaped by the industry’s ability to keep science-based carbon intensity at the forefront, specifically when it comes to life cycle carbon assessment (LCA).
A steam-generating heat pump technology available in an energy-as-a-service package is giving ethanol producers a zero-capex decarbonization solution.
EcoEngineers hosted two webinars in October on reducing ethanol plant emissions. Ultimately, getting into the high-value, low-CI ethanol market is now as much about climate-smart farming as energy-efficient production.
ICM has signed an EPC agreement to provide Absolute Energy LLC, with its patented FOT Oil Recovery technology, which enhances oil production while reducing natural gas consumption and improving the facility’s overall energy efficiency.
Bridgestone Americas on Oct. 22 announced it received a grant from the DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office to support the development of a pilot plant that will advance an innovative approach to obtaining butadiene from ethanol.
Whitefox Technologies has announced the successful installation of the Whitefox ICE XL membrane dehydration system at Western Plains Energy LLC ethanol plant in Oakley, Kansas. The solution enables the plant to reduce natural gas use by 50%.
DOE Agile BioFoundry and ABPDU partner with industrial microbes to successfully scale up biobased process
By Gayle Bentley, Technology Manager, Conversion Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy
October 30, 2024
U.S. DOE researchers have scaled up a process that converts ethanol into a valuable precursor for consumer products, such as paints, coatings, and diapers. The researchers worked with industry partner Industrial Microbes to develop the process.
IFF, an industry leader in food, beverage, health, biosciences, and scent, on Oct. 21 announced the launch of its OPTIMASH F200 and OPTIMASH AX enzyme solutions in combination to maximize corn oil recovery at fuel ethanol plants.
POET is deploying ImagoAI’s Galaxy mycotoxins testing technology across approximately 30% of its fleet. This new addition to POET’s testing regime will significantly reduce plastic and packaging waste and enhance the sustainability of its operations.
Lummus Technology and Next Wave Energy Partners LP announced the production of the world's first renewable alkylate. This renewable alkylate, derived from ethanol, is a biobased, low carbon intensity fuel blending component.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists engineered a process for making β-ketoadipic acid from lignin for $2 per kilogram, approaching cost-competitiveness with petroleum-based chemicals used for making nylon today.
Comstock Inc. has announced the execution of an exclusive license agreement and cooperative research and development agreement with NREL involving technologies developed by NREL and MIT for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into SAF.
Skyven Technologies has announced it will install its Skyven Arcturus, a steam generating heat pump, at Western New York Energy’s ethanol plant. The project will decrease the plant’s CO2 emissions by more than 20,000 metric tons per year.
NewEnergyBlue, the clean-technology designer of biomass refineries that turn agricultural waste into highly decarbonized biofuels and biochemicals, has finalized its purchase of Inbicon biomass-conversion technology from Ørsted.
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