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May 2012 · Biomass Products & Technology

Amyris' growing pains - leadership shakeup

Amyris, Inc., a renewable chemicals and fuels company,  announced the realignment of its senior leadership team.

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Pellet production in action

Producing pellets is interesting to read about, but more fun to watch. Click here to watch a video of a pelletizer going to work, and here if you need a laugh and still want to be able to say you’re...


Demonstrating fire safety

Ethanol fires aren’t like gasoline or other flammable liquid fires, as contributor Renee Loesche wrote about in the April issue of Biomass Products & Technology. Click here to see more...


Ethanol’s three “M”s: Myth, method, momentum

Ethanol. Just mentioning the word in a conversation with someone outside the ethanol or biomass/biofuels industries can touch off a potentially long, and sometimes quite heated, discussion. But how much is myth brought about by misinformation, what is...


Getting into the piping groove
Grooved piping threads its way throughout the new biomass gasification facility for a paper tissue mill

Inside Canada’s Kruger Products factory, a recently installed biomass gasification system earned the paper tissue manufacturer Canada’s Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC) award for environmental leadership and energy conservation....


Picking a pressure washer
Pressure washer quality varies as much as its price tag

When deciding on the purchase of new equipment, you’re often faced with an array of products that vary widely in quality and price. However, it’s not always easy to understand how one product can be so much more expensive than another.

Take...


Optimum weighing efficiency for optimal processes

Just like the feedstock industry, the livestock industry depends on fast, accurate weighing equipment that requires minimal repairs and is consistently accurate.

Puratone Corp., one of the largest hog producers in North America, has a long history...


Preparing for a growing bio-energy industry

People who keep biomass energy facilities on-line are a pretty hardworking lot. Shift work is never easy, especially during outages – even when they are scheduled ones. Any biomass power generation plant still operating today is likely to be staffed...


Reading tea leaves
Biomass industry needs to take control of its message, future

I never thought much about Tasseography (reading tea leaves) before I started drinking herbal tea in the afternoon. I am not a believer in reading tea leaves, but until some of the uncertainty around federal mandates and incentives shakes out, there...


Maximizing power from biomass

With the world’s population projected to eclipse 7 billion in 2011, and growing at approximately 1.2 percent per year, finding useable energy resources has become a global challenge. Diminishing supply and environmental concerns have been brought...


Ethanol fire safety

As a grain alcohol, ethanol poses a different fire safety hazard than hydrocarbon-based fuels such as gasoline. The difference is in the basic chemical makeup, where ethanol, as a polar solvent, is miscible with water, unlike gasoline which separates...


GHG reporting
From power plants to landfills, emission monitoring is everyone’s business

A January 2012 press release from the Environmental Protection Agency states that, for the first time, comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) data reported directly from large facilities and suppliers across the country are now “easily accessible to...


Technology Spotlight: Hitting its stride
Biomass’ history of fluctuating demand doesn’t discount it as an element to future sustainability

Long before “green” and “renewable” were household words, and before wind farms and solar panels dotted the landscape, biomass-to-energy plants turned thousands of tons of garbage, wood waste and the like into renewable energy....


Vecoplan releases NewGen Technologies

Vecoplan released two new models of its NewGen line of machines, a VAZ 1300 M and a VAZ 1600 XL FF T.

The NewGen shredder innovations improve performance and durability and decrease maintenance time. Features...


New DroughtGard Hybrids from Monsanto

U.S. farmers across the Western Great Plains this spring will be the first to plant Monsanto’s newest drought-tolerant corn system as part of on-farm trials. The hybrids, made available to growers under...


New Cole-Parmer Rotational Viscometer Series for multiple applications

Options for determining the dynamic viscosity of food, adhesives, petroleum products, biofuels, paint, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and more, just expanded. The Cole-Parmer® Rotational Viscometer series...


New ChemSeal specifically designed for agitator service

Chemineer Inc. launched the new ChemSeal™ - the newest line of mechanical seals designed specifically for agitator service. ChemSeal is a true agitator seal featuring high runout, reverse rotation and reverse...


Hach releases Biogas Titration Manager for simplified, cost effective monitoring

Hach Company announced the U.S. launch of the Biogas Titration Manager, a titrator designed specifically for monitoring biogas production. The titrator is preprogrammed with three common methods, and has space for 7...


Carter named electrical engineering manager at VIC

Vecoplan Integrated Controls, a manufacturer of industrial control panels and plant-wide integrated control systems, promoted Ron Carter to electrical engineering manager. In addition to managing the engineering...


Fecon announces Northwest Regional Manager

Fecon introduced Brian Tinker as the new regional manager for the Northwest. His territory includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California, Alaska, Hawaii and a portion of Nevada.

Tinker has...


Papé Machinery expands Morbark Territory into Idaho

Morbark Inc. announced the territory expansion for Papé Machinery into northern Idaho. A respected Morbark forestry and recycling dealer for almost 20 years, Papé...


4B Components opens new facility

4B Components, the USA division of the 4B Group, re-located to a new state of the art facility in Morton, Ill. The new building, at 625 Erie Ave., Morton, IL 61550, is only a 5 minute drive from the previous East Peoria...


Vecoplan Midwest moves to larger facility

Vecoplan Midwest, a subsidiary of Vecoplan LLC in High Point, N.C., recently relocated to an 18,180 sq. ft. facility located in New Albany, Ind. According to Bill Miller, COO of Vecoplan Midwest, the move...


Capital Safety announces Oswald as CEO

Capital Safety, a manufacturer of fall protection equipment under the DBI-SALA, Uniline and Protecta brands, announced that Stephen Oswald will join the company as its new chief executive officer.

For...


Auditing agencies, labs accredited to PFI Standards Program

The Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) and the American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) marked the first critical step in the roll out of the new densified biomass fuel standard for North America through the accreditation...


Power Equipment Company new dealer for Fecon

Fecon announced that Power Equipment Company is a new dealer and service provider for Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, Northeast Arkansas, Northern Mississippi and Western Virginia. Power Equipment will offer Fecon’s proven line of Bull Hog mulchers,...


Aquaviridis and OriginOil announce joint commercial agreement

Algae producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil Inc., announced that Aquaviridis has signed a commercial agreement with OriginOil to help develop the multi-phase algae production rollout at its Mexicali, Mexico, site....


June 4-7, 2012
International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo

Minneapolis, Minn.

www.fuelethanolworkshop.com

 

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