Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'DuPont'

Business week spots butanol

Business Week has an article on biobutanol. As a run down of where we are with butanol its worth having, but there's no real peg for the story. ...

DuPont in cellulose ethanol trial in Tennessee

DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE) and the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Foundation, through its Genera Energy LLC, have announced a partnership to construct an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art research and development facility for cellulosic ethanol in Vonore. There's more...

Sun Ethanol gains DuPont's Frey as CEO

Sun Ethanol has hired William Frey, as the cellulosic ethanol company's new CEO. Previously, Dr. Frey spearheaded commercialization of  advanced biofuels and new cellulosic process technologies at DuPont, according to Green Car Congress, which has more. ...

Praj wins big biofuel contract to supply Vivergo

Praj has won a big biofuels contract to supply key equipment to Vivergo Fuels, UK through its subsidiary, BioCnergy Europa B. V, a Joint Venture with Aker Solutions, Netherlands, according to myiris.com,. The plant is designed to produce 400m litre/year fuel...

DuPont Genencor conference

DuPont and Genencor hosted a conference call this afternoon about the launch of their cellulosic biofuels joint venure DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC. Aside from the $140m to be invested over three years. Key takeaways for me:1. Chad Holiday, ceo...

Glycrerol to Hydrogen, the Leeds way

Glycerol one of the big byproducts of biodisel production could be converted to hydrogen rich gas using a process developed at Leeds University in the UK, and reported on Biopact. This is not Dr Valerie DuPont's first venture in to...

Biofuel volumes to grow in UK, wheat costs up?

Biofuels volumes in the UK are set to rise, but will the announcement by BP, Associated British Foods and DuPont increase the price of food in the UK? The wide spread availability of biofuels in the UK took a major...

Landfill helps Soya

Biofuel from rotting domestic waste is being used to help Solea reduce the impact of its plant in Memphis, Tennessee. The company's manufacturing site...