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Range Fuels. Range Fuels was a company that tried to develop technology for the conversion of biomass into ethanol without the use of enzymes. The technology employed was biomass gasification followed by syngas conversion over heterogeneous molybdenum-based catalysts to a mixture of aliphatic alcohols. [1] The company began in 2006 as Kergy [2 ...
Nov 7, 2007 · Construction of the first phase of the plant is expected to be complete in 2008. Range Fuels, Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a $76 million Technology Investment Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which will allow the company to build and operate the nation's first commercial cellulosic ethanol processing facility.
Dec 6, 2011 · Range Fuels is officially done, dead, finito. After the firm failed to perform, the government pulled the plug, forcing the biofuel company to liquidate its lone factory in order to try to recoup ...
- Derek Mead
Dec 15, 2011 · The Range Fuels plant produced some methanol in 2010, but it operated at a loss, and it was shut down in 2011. By December 2011, the company had received just over $40 million of the full grant ...
Aug 17, 2010 · Range Fuels plans to expand the capacity of the plant to 60 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels annually with construction to begin next summer. The Soperton Plant is permitted to produce 100 ...
Mar 3, 2010 · Range Fuels' vision is to introduce the world to solutions to the pressing global problems of energy, the environment, and the economy by providing low-carbon biofuels and clean power that are ...
Nov 6, 2007 · Green tech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is one the investors in Range Fuels and a high-profile advocate of ethanol and other biofuels. The numbers behind making ethanol from wood waste, rather ...
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