A new iron plant has been given the go ahead, using green technology the facility is expected to produce 100,000 metric tons of iron nuggets per year. Located in Jamestown, North Dakota, Carbontec Energy Corporation has developed a process that uses the waste from sugar beets, wood chips and other biomass to make pig iron [...]
KiOR Turning Wood Chips Into Gasoline
KiOR, a renewable fuel start-up based in Pasadena, Tex., said Thursday that it had produced a crude oil made from wood chips at a plant in Mississippi and expected to refine it into gasoline and diesel and sell it commercially later this month. That would be a first for the cellulosic biofuel sector. In a [...]
Biomass Suppliers Sought For Nova Scotia Plant
Nova Scotia Power recently released a formal request for expressions of interest in supplying biomass and related services for its plant currently under construction in Port Hawkesbury. The process launched will include the purchase of approximately 500,000 tons of biomass fuel for Nova Scotia Power’s 60 MW biomass plant, expected to be operational in the [...]
Des Plaines Company Turns Wood Into Gas
That old cornstalk’s worth money. And so is that dead tree stump. Known as biomass, such plant materials can be converted into an alternative fuel source. And eventually that will mean savings for drivers at the pump. Des Plaines-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) is starting production of biomass fuel at a Chicago plant as part [...]
Enviva LP, ConocoPhillips Developing Torrefied Wood Pellet Business
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, has partnered with ConocoPhillips, a prominent international oil and gas producer, to create a new company, ECo Biomass Technologies, which will bring torrefied biomass fuels to market. ECo Biomass, jointly owned by Enviva and ConocoPhillips, will use a combination of [...]
Enviva Tells Of Second NC Pellet Plant, Eyes Third In Area
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, will build a second $60 million wood pellet manufacturing facility in North Carolina, just off I-95 at Garysburg, near the Virginia state line. Projected to be operational by the fall of 2012, the plant go up 52 miles west of [...]