All Posts Tagged With: "biofuel feedstock"
OPX Biotechnologies and Dow Chemical Collaborate on Renewable Feedstock R&D
The Boulder company is partnering with the chemical giant to develop an industrial scale process for the production of bio-based acrylic acid from renewable feedstocks. The global petroleum-based acrylic acid market is $8 billion and growing 3 to 4 percent annually.
17Apr2011 | admin | 3 comments | ContinuedStanding at the Crossroads
The Biofuels Industry in Colorado
Colorado’s biofuels sector is faring better than elsewhere in the U.S, but bolder and more sustained actions are required if the state’s vision of becoming the cleantech version of Silicon Valley is to be realized. A CEN White Paper
1Feb2010 | admin | 4 comments | ContinuedBiofuels Beat —
Rentech and ZeaChem Get Fed Funding
Two bio-refining companies with Colorado connections will receive new funding from the federal stimulus program, according to an announcement by the DOE. Lakewood-based ZeaChem Inc. is receiving $25 million for an Oregon biofuels project, and Rentech is part of a $23 million biorefinery project here.
7Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedState Gets Fed Money for Trees-to-Energy Programs
Among other things, the funds will be used to help convert wood collected during wildfire- and pine-beetle mitigation efforts for a prison boiler in Florence; to fuel Boulder County Open Space and Parks’ biomass heating system; and to fund grinding, hauling and processing for Confluence Energy’s wood-pellet facility in Kremmling.
12Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
