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Do you agree with new policy that reduces taxes for US producers of renewable chemicals?
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Biofuels International Conference 2013
11 September 2013 - 12 September 2013
Ramada Plaza, Antwerp, Belgium
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Biomass Asia Conference 2013
20 May 2013 - 22 May 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
World Biofuels 2013
23 May 2013 - 24 May 2013
Seville, Spain |
ILTA
3 June 2013 - 5 June 2013
Houston, Texas |
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Volume 4, Issue 8
Feature: Seaweed: a new wave of investment |
For more than 100 years, China and Asian nations have grown seaweed also known as macro-algae at a large industrial scale for the production of food, animal feed, pharmaceutical remedies, and cosmetic purposes. An emerging rise in investment from petrochemical majors and governments for projects in Asia, Europe and the Americas aims at extracting sugars from seaweed for ethanol, bio-based diesel, advanced biofuels, drop-in fuels, biobutanol, biochemicals and biopolymers. Why Macro-Algae? A new study, Algae 2020, Vol 2 (October, 2010 update) finds phycology experts and petrochemical majors from Korea, the Philippines, Norway, the US and Chile agree seaweed grows faster than terrestrial crops, has a high sugar content for conversion to ethanol and advanced biofuels, absorbs more airborne carbon than land-based plants, has no lignin, can be easily harvested compared to microalgae, requires no pretreatment for ethanol production, and can be harvested up to six times a year in warm climates.
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