Companies by product
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Biorefineries
- XL Biorefinery - A new generation biorefinery combines a dairy operation with a bioufels plant and fractionation mill to produce renewable biofuels, quality animal feeds, and milk products. They currently use corn as a feedstock but are developing an algae to biofuels component.
Ethanol
First-generation ethanol
"First generation" ethanol is produced from sugars or starches using traditional fermentation techniques.
- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
- Aventine Renewable Energy
- Bunge
- Cargill
- Cilion - formed by Khosla Ventures and Western Milling.
- Western Milling and Khosla Ventures Join Forces to Form Cilion (Press Release)
- The press release noted that "Cilion will operate modular, standardized 55 million gallons per year ethanol plants." Also, "these plants will be cheaper and greener than standard corn-to-ethanol plants, substantially reducing the need for fossil fuels in ethanol production. Cilion plans to have 8 plant units in production by 2008 for a total of 440 million gallons per year capacity."[1]
- Western Milling and Khosla Ventures Join Forces to Form Cilion (Press Release)
- CropEnergies AG - bioethanol producer owned by German sugar giant Südzucker.
- Green Star USA - A holding company with investments in ethanol producers, and a producer of biodiesel reactors.
- LBL Network Co Ltd - Investing in ethanol plants using cassava as a feedstock in Indonesia. Needs citation
- Pacific Ethanol
- Pioneer Bio Industries Corp Sdn Bhd - Is investing 1.4 billion ringgit (€304/US398 million) to set up the first refinery plant to produce Nypa palm ethanol on a large scale [2].
- Sekab - Ethanol production and investment group.
- Xethanol - Is building ethanol plants close to major urban markets, "using locally available raw materials."
- Xethanol Announces New Venture to Produce Ethanol from Waste Citrus Peels in Florida 13 December 2006 from Businesswire.
Cellulosic ethanol
Cellulosic ethanol is produced from cellulose, the main component in plants using advanced enzymes or biomass-to-liquids technologies.
- Abengoa - Constructing the world's first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Babilafuente (Salamanca), Spain. Commissioning is expected to start by the end of 2006. In 2006 Q4, a partnership was announced with Dyadic.
- Archer Daniels Midland - ADM is agressively studying how to produce cellulosic ethanol out of parts of the corn kernal that are traditionally not used for ethanol.
- BRI Energy - Developed a process that uses gasification, fermentation and distillation to produce ethanol and electricity from a wide array of carbon-based wastes.
- BlueFire - Plans to use the Arkenol Technology Process (which has been used in Izumi, Japan since 2002) for creating cellulosic ethanol.
- Broin Companies. - A South-Dakota based Ethanol producer that is opening the first commercial sized cellulosic-ethanol plant in the US in Iowa.
- Celunol - A cellulosic ethanol company with a pilot plant in Louisiana. They have also licensed their technology to Marubeni Corporation, who have a pilot plant in Osaka, Japan.
- Ceres Inc. - Privately-held plant biotech company utilizing genomics technologies to develop energy crops, such as switchgrass, for cellulosic ethanol.
- Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation - Is building a factory to make cellulosic ethanol from rice straw, which will be commissioned in 2007.
- Diversa - Partnering with Dupont and researching multiple enzyme "cocktails" to break down cellulosic biomass. Also looking for enzymes in the guts of termites in an attempt to capitalize on the insect's ability to convert wood to energy.
- DuPont - Developing cellulose ethanol technology and planning a demonstration plant.
- Dyadic - Spent over a decade of R&D in the design and development of enzymes for the increasingly efficient extraction of sugars from [[biomass]. In 2006 Q4, a partnership was announced with Abengoa.
- Genahol - Has plans to open cellulosic ethanol plants in Long Beach, CA, Chandler, AZ, Columbus, OH, and Orville, OH.
- Green Star Products Inc. - Developed a waterless continuous flow process reactor system which will be used in upcoming cellulose ethanol plants planned for North Carolina and the Northwest.
- Honda Honda is producing flexible fuel vehicles, and an experimental cellulosic ethanol plant.
- Iogen Corporation - Operates a demonstration scale facility to convert biomass to cellulose ethanol using enzymatic hydrolysis technology. Full scale commercial facilities are being planned.
- Lignol Energy Corporation - A western Canadian company, Lignol plans to build biorefineries for ethanol and co-products produced from Canadian forests. The Company has acquired and modified a solvent based pre-treatment technology originally developed by a subsidiary of General Electric (“GE”). Lignol also acquired the original GE pilot plant that is now being integrated with recently developed process capabilities to convert cellulose to ethanol.
- Mascoma - With a new CTO who spent over 10 years with SunOpta, Mascoma is developing bio and process technology for cost-effective conversion of cellulosic biomass. Khosla Ventures is a Mascoma investor.
- Novozymes - Developing enzymes that can convert cellulose into simple sugars, for fermentation into fuel ethanol. Has had collaboration/partnerships with Abengoa and Broin.
- Pure Energy - Developed a two-stage dilute acid hydrolysis technology process which will be used in the forthcoming Green Star Products, Inc projects.
- Range Fuels - The Colorado based company, formerly known as Kergy and funded by Khosla Ventures, claims it can produce more cellulosic ethanol for a given amount of energy expended than is possible with any other competing process. They also use a modular design, which allows processing to occur close to the source of biomass and be easily scaled-up. They are building a biomass-to-liquids plant in Georgia, which will primarily use wood as a feedstock.
- Sunopta- Built the first cellulosic ethanol plant 20 years ago, in France. In June 2006, SunOpta said it would build the first cellulosic ethanol plant in China. Recently sold a biomass-to-ethanol system to Celunol in what will likely be the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States.
- Verenium Corporation - developer of cellulosic ethanol and enzyme products.
Other ethanol
These companies use a range of different techniques to produce ethanol.
- LanzaTech - LanzaTech are developing "an ethanol production process that can be retrofitted to industrial facilities to generate ethanol from the carbon monoxide (CO) component of waste flue gases.
Biodiesel
- Anuanom Industrial Bio Products Ltd - Develops jatropha plantations and biodiesel plants.
- Canadian Bioenergy: An integrated biodiesel company in Canada. The company is active in:
- Pre-engineering and final feasibility for a 114 million litre per year (30 MMGY) biodiesel production facility adjacent to Bunge Canada's oilseed crushing plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta (near Edmonton).
- Strategic partnering with oilseed growers and processors for long term supply of feedstocks for biodiesel production.
- Regional distribution and sales of biodiesel, and blended diesel-biodiesel products, from terminal hubs in Vancouver, BC and Calgary, AB.
- Expansion of regional distribution and sales network of biodiesel products.
- Partnering with petroleum distributors to make biodiesel widely available in western Canada through distribution and offtake agreements.
- Chemrez Inc. - Produces Bio-diesel and diesel additives from coconut oil, as well as oleochemicals.
- China Clean Energy - "a producer of biodiesel fuel and green specialty chemical products"[3]
- Energy Alternative Solutions Inc. - EAS is building a biodiesel plant using waste vegetable oil and restaurant tallow as a feedstock in central California.
- GreenFuel Technologies
- Green Star USA - A holding company with investments in ethanol producers, and a producer of biodiesel reactors.
- GS AgriFuels - Produces biodiesel as well as does biomass gasification to produce ethanol and synfuels.
- Imperium Renewables - A biodiesel manufacturer in Washington, which is building the US largest biodiesel plant which will produce 100 million gallons/year.
- INEOS Enterprises - Major chemical company and biodiesel producer.
- INEOS announces major investment in new biodiesel facility at Port of Antwerp 13 December 2006 from Biofuel Review.
- Perihelion Global Is building a $40,000,000 BioFuel refinery in Opp, Alabama, which will produce approximately 40 million gallons of biodiesel from peanuts.
- Sime Darby Bhd - Large multi-national with core oil palm plantation business, which is investing in biodiesel plants in Indonesia.
- Western Biodiesel Inc. Tallow based biodiesel plant currently being built in Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada with capacity of 19 Million Litres annually. Completion expected in Q1 2008.
- US Sustainable Energy Corporation
Algae-based biodiesel
- Algodyne Corp. - Has developed an algae photo-bioreactor system that can produce ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, electricity, coal and animal feed. They are also developing a direct alcohol fuel cell (DAFC), that produces electricity from ethanol directly.
- Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation - A New Zealand based company that is the first to harvest wild algae (from waste-water treatment plants) for biodiesel production.
- GreenFuel Technologies
- Green Star Products Inc. - A holding company with investments in various ethanol and biodiesel producers. They are building demonstration algae-to-biodiesel facilities.
- Petrosun Incorporated - a diversified energy company dealing with both traditional fossil fuels and renewable energy resources, including algae biodiesel, through their subsidiary, Algae Biofuels.
- Solix Biofuels - Makes algae photo-bioreactors that capture CO2 from power plants to produce biodiesel.
- XL Biorefinery - A new generation biorefinery combines a dairy operation with a bioufels plant and fractionation mill to produce renewable biofuels, quality animal feeds, and milk products. They currently use corn as a feedstock but are developing an algae to biofuels component.
Other liquid biofuels
Biomass-to-liquids (BTL)
- Nova Fuels- Develops biomass-to-fuel conversion facilities (that use gasification technology) with joint venture partners. Produces NovaholTM, a mixture of alcohols which can be used as a fuel or refined to ethanol, biobutanol or other form.
Biobutanol
- Environmental Energy Inc - has developed and patented a process which makes fermentation derived butanol more economically viable and competitive with current petrochemical processes and the production of ethanol.
- ChemLac Inc. (subsidiary of EEI) dramatically improves cost efficiencies to produce biobutanol by utilizing whey lactose, a by-product of cheese manufacturing as the process feedstock.
Pyrolysis oil
- Dynamotive Uses pyrolysis technology to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil for power and heat generation.
- China looks at BioOil technology to reduce oil imports 13 December 2006 from Biofuel Review. "China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has come out in favor of the introduction of Dynamotive’s BioOil technology to reduce the nation’s growing oil imports.
- BTG Bioliquids BV has more than 15 years experience with pyrolysis. BTG-BTL has unique experience with difficult feedstocks, BTG built and operated a 2 t/h production plant in Malaysia, using Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) as feedstock. BTG-BTL also tested more than 45 different types of feedstock in their laboratory. Its pyrolysis technology is now commercially available.
- SomoaFiber Inc. - A company that is looking to commercialize Gynerium Saggitattum, a fast growing tropical grass, and use it to produce pyrolysis oil.
Other
- Amyris Biotech - A biotechnology company that is engineering microbes to create new types of biofuels, including an ethanol-substitute and a next-generation biodiesel.
- Arc Media Global - Trading company trades various bioenergy products and biologically-derived products for petroleum applications, such as its revolutionary eco-lubricant engine oil 100% derived from plants, certified to produce lower emissions from all types of engines.
Biogas
- Biogas Nord - "Biogas Nord is an engineering firm that has specialised in the development, planning, construction and operation of biogas plants since the mid-90s."
- EnviTec Biogas - EnviTec Biogas is a company in the biogas industry in Germany. They finance and manufacture biogas block heat power plants, which use organic wastes to produce heat and electricity.
- FirmGreen Energy, Inc. - Converts landfill gas into clean fuels such as biogas (CNG), biodiesel, and hydrogen for fleet fueling operations.
- Organic Waste Systems - Produces anaerobic digesters that convert waste and biomass into biogas, including glycerin, a biodiesel co-product.
- Glycerin as biogas feedstock from biopact, 27 December 2006.
- Prometheus Energy - Prometheus Energy captures biogas from waste or low-quality sources such as landfills, stranded gas wells, wastewater treatment facilities, agricultural operations and coalbed methane . They then liquify the gas so it can be used as transportation fuel.
Biopropane
- C3 Bioenergy - Has developed a process to produce biopropane, propylene and hydrogen from biomass.
Gasification
Biomass gasification produces syngas from a range of feedstocks. The syngas can be burnt for power or used to create biomass-to-liquids, synthetic natural gas and other products.
- Advaced Plasma Power (UK) uses a two-stage gasification process to convert dried organic waste is into H-rich gas, which can be burnt as a power source (e.g. in cars). The remaining soot & ash can be solidified into a material stronger than granite and can be used as a building material.
Bioenergy electricity
Investment
Rural development
- Sunlabob - A Laos renewable energy company that does village electrification through solar panels, as well as creating jatropha plantations for oil.
Other
Oil palm producers
- Genting Bhd - Investment holding and management company of Genting Group. Asiatic Development Berhad now has a land bank of over 71,000 hectares and is one of the leading and lowest cost palm oil producers in Malaysia.
- Golden Hope Plantations (Malaysian), Large oil palm company with a strong sustainability focus:
- Global awards including the Forest Stewardship Council Certification (FSC), ISO 14001, ISO 9000, ISO 9001 and COC.
- Won the Global 500 Award by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for its “Zero Burning” practices."
- Founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
- PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk - Palm oil and rubber company.
- PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk - Palm oil company.
- Sime Darby Bhd - Large multi-national with core oil palm plantation business, which is investing in biodiesel plants in Indonesia.
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