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Optimism In the Biofuels Industry: Dynamic Fuels Opens Commercial-Scale Biodiesel Plant

Tom Schueneman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:31:15 +0000

Syntroleum Corporation and Tyson Foods have partnered in a 50/50 venture called Dynamic Fuels to produce a new high-grade renewable diesel fuel. Using a proprietary Bio-Synfining process and a feedstock of animal fats, greases, and vegetable oils supplied from Tyson, Dynamic Fuels will produce diesel fuel with the lowest greenhouse gas emission levels of any transportation fuel available today.

Last month Dynamic Fuel chose Emerson Process Management to provide the digital automation and process management systems to help operate a new $138 million renewable diesel facility in Geismar, Louisiana, the largest such plant in North America. Scheduled to begin operation in 2010, the plant will produce 75 million gallons per year of of the fuel.

Biofuel Update With Emerson Process Management

Tom Schueneman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:39:57 +0000

Earlier this year we caught up with Alan Novak, Director of Alternative Fuels for Emerson Process Management, to discuss last December’s BioEnergy Summit.

In that post we touched on how, depending on your perspective, biofuel and bioenergy production represent either unmitigated hype and controversy on the one hand, or the potential promise and hope for a sustainable clean energy future based, in part, on an abundant renewable fuel source on the other.

Emerson Process Management’s Alan Novak Sets Optimistic Tone for Advanced Biofuels Industry

Tom Schueneman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:46:49 +0000

Cellulosic ethanol is, for some, the holy grail of alternative fuel, while others remain resolutely unconvinced, claiming such confidence in the potential of biofuel as a fool’s errand (or worse).

Beyond these entrenched extremes, ranging from wild optimism to abject skepticism, comes the real heavy lifting - understanding there are significant hurdles inherent in getting second generation biofuel from the lab into full-scale sustainable commercial production, but seeing those hurdles as challenges to be overcome, not as roadblocks from which to retreat, and working to bridge the gap from current reality to potential promise.