Entries tagged as ‘waste feedstock’
Of all the tons of corrugated cardboard recycled by the Cedar Rapids paper mill in Iowa, 5 percent of fibers from old containers cannot be recycled, which equates to about 50,000 tons of paper waste ending up in a landfill every year. Fiberight LLC plans to change this.
Fiberight has partnered with International Paper Cedar River to convert waste paper into cellulosic ethanol fuel. The clean tech company converted a first-generation corn ethanol plant in Blairstown, Iowa into a cellulosic ethanol production facility.
According to Todd Olstad, the paper mill’s operations manager, “through Fiberight’s new facility, we can now be assured that whatever recycled fiber can’t be made into new packaging can be used to create green energy, while helping us offset our disposal cost.”
By 2011, Fiberight’s facility will reach a final commercial production capacity of about 6 million gallons of cellulosic fuel per year.
Read more about Fiberight’s cellulosic fuel plant.
Categories: Biodiesel · Biodiesel Production · Ethanol Research · Flex Fuel · Flex Fuel E85 · Green Business · Next Generation Feedstock
Tagged: biofuel, ethanol, alternative fuel, Green Business, low-carbon fuel, waste feedstock, second generation fuel, biofuel feedstock, waste into fuel
Earlier this week, Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer train made its first journey powered by B20 biodiesel.
The Heartland Flyer will run on tallow-based B20 biodiesel for the next year with plans to potentially expand the program to the entire system. The Heartland Flyer uses over 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel every year on its 400-mile route between Fort Worth, TX and Oklahoma City, OK.
The biodiesel test program is funded by a federal government grant. Amtrak will monitor and track train performance and emission reductions from the use of biodiesel.
The majority of Amtrak’s passenger trains burn petroleum diesel. In one year, Amtrak trains use over 62 million gallons of fuel. Switching to B20 biodiesel would significantly reduce consumption of petroleum diesel and has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by almost 200 million pounds.
More about the Heartland Flyer’s biodiesel test.
Categories: Biodiesel · Biodiesel Quality · Biodiesel Research · Climate Change · Emissions · Green Business · News Links · Propel Biofuels · Uncategorized
Tagged: Biodiesel, biofuel, diesel, alternative fuel, Green Business, low-carbon fuel, domestic fuel, waste feedstock, amtrak biodiesel
The joint project by leading ethanol producer, POET, and the city of Sioux Falls uses landfill gas to help power POET’s Chancellor, South Dakota ethanol production facility. Methane gas created by the Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill is transported down an 11-mile pipeline to POET’s biorefinery, helping to power ethanol production.
Methane, a major factor in global warming, is captured, converted and put to use producing process steam for ethanol production–using methane offsets 15 percent of the facility’s energy needs, reducing overall CO2 emissions by more than 26,000 tons per year.
Revenue from selling methane to POET and subsequent carbon credits, earns an additional 1 million dollars per year for the city of Sioux Falls.
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency recognized the innovative work of the POET-Sioux Falls project in an award ceremony for programs that “employed unique project structures and took creative approaches to utilize (landfill gas) from municipal solid waste landfills.” The project will continue to grow as the supply of landfill gases increase, doubling capacity by 2025.
Read more about POET and Sioux Falls.
Categories: Emissions · Flex Fuel · Green Business · Green House Gases (GHG) · News Links · Next Generation Feedstock · Uncategorized
Tagged: biofuel, global warming, ethanol, Flex Fuel, E85, alternative fuel, Green Business, low-carbon fuel, domestic fuel, waste feedstock, next generation, POET
Fuel sourced from waste derived feedstock is the gold-standard in sustainable energy production. And the pine forest waste left over from Georgia’s paper industry will soon be turned into fuel.
Range Fuels’ cellulosic ethanol production facility aims to utilize the limbs, needles and tops of timber typically left out in the woods as an entirely new source of fuel. A technology that is a perfect fit for the State of Georgia that has an abundance of forest-derived feedstocks.
“This is zero carbon footprint fuel” says David Aldous, Range Fuels’ CEO.
The Soperton, Georgia-based plant held ground breaking ceremonies in 2007 and is scheduled to be producing this fuel in 2010. The project is permitted to produce 100 million gallons of fuel per year. In addition to vehicle fuel, the plant will generate renewable power from energy recovered during the process of converting biomass into fuel.
Watch Video from WSBTV.
Categories: Biodiesel Production · Energy Balance · Feedstocks · Flex Fuel · Green Business · Next Generation Feedstock · Vehicles
Tagged: biofuel, ethanol, Flex Fuel, E85, alternative fuel, low-carbon fuel, domestic fuel, waste feedstock, next generation, next generation fuel, cellulosic, advanced fuel, Range Fuels
South Dakota based POET is pioneering commercial-scale next generation ethanol 
production with their Project Liberty plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The 25 million-gallon-per-year plant reached a significant benchmark yesterday receiving a 20 million dollar commitment from Lt Governor Patty Judge. Former four-star General Wesley Clark spoke to attendees about the important role they would play in providing more homegrown fuel for the nation.
“We are involved in something that is historic,” Clark said. “We are going to significantly reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources, and we will strengthen America’s national security.”
POET currently operates a pilot-scale cellulosic plant in Scotland, S.D. currently producing 20,000 gallons per year of cellulosic ethanol. The newly funded Iowa plant will commercialize the process creating hundreds of new green jobs.
Watch coverage by KTIV News 4
Categories: Energy Balance · Feedstocks · Flex Fuel · Green Business · News Links · Next Generation Feedstock
Tagged: propel, biofuel, ethanol, Flex Fuel, E85, E85 driver, alternative fuel, Green Business, low-carbon fuel, domestic fuel, waste feedstock, next generation, next generation fuel, cellulosic fuel, cellulosic ethanol, POET
Not Corn…Cobs. This harvest refuse, typically plowed back into the field, is now a source of fuel for American drivers, and new profit for American farmers.
Making this possible are the leading edge cellulosic ethanol plants like the Iowa based plant currently being built by Poet Energy. The $200 million plant will make cellulosic ethanol, which comes from plant material such as cobs, wood chips and switchgrass. About two dozen cellulosic ethanol projects are being developed or built around the country, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
Poet spokesman Nathan Schock said the company hasn’t yet figured out how much it will pay farmers, but it could be $30 to $60 per ton for corn stover, which includes cobs and some stalk. An average acre in Iowa yields about 1.5 tons of corn stover.
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Categories: Biodiesel Quality · Feedstocks · Flex Fuel · Green Business · Next Generation Feedstock · Propel Biofuels
Tagged: Biodiesel, propel, biofuel, alternative fuel, low-carbon fuel, domestic fuel, waste feedstock, second generation, next generation
