Blast rocks Enterprise natgas plant in Texas

One worker was unaccounted for after explosions rocked a natural gas liquids storage complex on Tuesday in Mont Belvieu, Texas, according to the plant’s owner, which also said the main facilities were not damaged. Firefighters contained the massive fire, visible 35 miles to the west in Houston, and there were no reported injuries, Chambers County... 

Mascoma Expanding Its Leadership Team as Company Accelerates Towards Commercialization

Mascoma Corporation announced several management reconfigurations, as the company moves into its commercial development phase. Mascoma has developed proprietary technology, called Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP), which enables the production of sustainable, low carbon cellulosic ethanol. This technology has been proven in Mascoma’s Rome, New York... 

China Energy Recovery Completes a New $3.3 Million Project for a Repeat Customer

China Energy Recovery, Inc., a leader in the waste heat energy recovery sector of the industrial energy efficiency industry, announced today that it has successfully completed an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) project (the “Project”) for a new specialty sulfuric acid plant, operated by Jiahua Chemical (“Jiahua”),... 

GreenShift Receives Grant for Algae Bioreactor Technology

GreenShift Corporation announced that it has received a grant award of $375,000 to further the development of GreenShift’s patented and patent-pending algae bioreactor. The funding is provided through the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization, a unit of the Montana Department of Commerce. The objective of the grant award is to demonstrate... 

MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures Backs Laurus Energy

MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, announced that it has backed Laurus Energy, the North American leader in Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project development. Laurus also announced today that top energy executive Rebecca McDonald has joined as CEO. “Given the huge demand for energy in the U.S. and abroad... 

Startech Environmental Distributor w2ge Contracts With One of Poland’s Largest Chemical Companies

Startech Environmental Corp., a fully reporting, award-winning, environment and energy company announced that it has been notified by waste2greenenergy Limited (“w2ge”), the Company’s exclusive distributor for the UK and Poland, that w2ge’s wholly-owned Polish subsidiary SG Silesia Sp Z o.o. (“SG Silesia”) has entered... 

Syntec to Develop Catalysts to Produce Butanol and Propanol From Biomass and MSW

Syntec Biofuel Inc. announced it is launching a research program to develop catalysts and processes to produce Bio-butanol and Bio-propanol from biomass. This new R&D initiative is projected to be a 3 year program and will run in parallel with Syntec’s catalyst development. The company will be seeking strategic financial partners to support... 

WaterStyle Holdings, Inc. and UCLA Announce an Exclusive License for Certain Advanced Technology for Water Sustainability Invented at UCLAs Water Technology Research (WaTeR) Center

WaterStyle Holdings, Inc. (“WSH”) and UCLA jointly announce the licensing of certain key intellectual property for use in the water sector. The intellectual property focuses on advanced water systems, services and solutions for desalination, reclamation, reuse and sustainability. Under the terms of the License, WSH will have exclusive worldwide... 

Advanced Electron Beams and the University of Reims Collaborate on Green Chemistry Research

Advanced Electron Beams (AEB), which enables the green factory of the future by making sustainability possible and profitable for manufacturers, and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne today announced a collaboration in which the University will use AEB’s electron beam technology for fundamental research on electron beam-induced chemistry and... 

Terrabon Dedicates Energy Independence I, an Advanced Biofuels Research Facility in Bryan, Texas

Terrabon, L.L.C. held dedication ceremonies Friday, November 7, for its new Advanced Biofuels Research Facility in Bryan, Texas. The event marked completion of the facility, christened Energy Independence I, which will confirm the scaled-up, commercial feasibility of the Company’s MixAlco(TM) technology. MixAlco converts readily-available, low-cost,...