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Biomass Fuel Goes Public
- April 16, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Alternative Energy, Energy, Fuel, News, Oil & Gas
No CommentsThe line-up of biomass-to-oil technologies continues to grow in importance as the renewable fuel firm, KiOR, back by billionaire Vinod Khosla, has filed to go public. KiOR plans to raise as much as US$100 million in the IPO in an effort to fund the construction of a commercial-scale production facility in Mississippi. KiOR’s process utilizes
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The Low Profile Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Process
- December 23, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Chemicals, Energy, News, Oil & Gas
A new white paper was posted on the SECG web site. This paper documents a significant development in fluid catalytic cracking: the Low-profile Fluid Catalytic Cracker (LPFCC.) This patented innovation is based on the rearrangement of existing technology and the transport mechanism for the catalyst. Because the catalyst moves through a series of lifts and
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Gulf Oil Spill Headache – Take a Tylenol or at Least a Lesson from History
- June 9, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: News, Oil & Gas
Since the Deepwater Horizon, a semi-submersible drilling rig, sank on April 22 as a result of a lethal explosion (11 people were killed) on the rig two days earlier, more than a million gallons of oil has been gushing in to the Gulf of Mexico each day. British Petroleum, which leased the Deepwater Horizon is
