In Washington, Biofuels Digest announced that LanzaTech and Cool Planet took two awards each to lead the winners of the 2014 Transformative Technologies competition. The competition, held over the past two months, is the only set of awards entirely decided by the Digest\u2019s online readers, who voted using social media.<\/p>\n
The winners are:<\/p>\n
Transformation of an oilseed or tree: Yulex \u2013 guayule<\/p>\n
Transformation of a grain or grass: Algenetix-Alchimia \u2013 giant miscanthus<\/p>\n
Transformation of a microbe or algae: Sapphire Energy \u2014 algae<\/p>\n
Transformative Gasifier: Sierra Energy \u2014 FastOX gasifier<\/p>\n
Transformative Harvest, extraction or dewatering system: OriginOil \u2014 Single Step extraction system<\/p>\n
Transformative Pretreatment system: MBI (Michigan Biotechnology Institute) \u2014 AFEX3 packed bed ammonia fiber expansion<\/p>\n
Organic catalyst or enzyme: DuPont Accellerase Trio<\/p>\n
Inorganic catalyst: Siluria Technologies<\/p>\n
Conversion technology (gas): LanzaTech \u2013 gas fermentation<\/p>\n
Conversion technology (liquid): Cool Planet Energy Systems<\/p>\n
Conversion technology (solid-state or supercritical): Renmatix \u2013 Plantrose supercritical sugars<\/p>\n
Transformative Molecule \u2013 biofuel: Butamax \u2014 isobutanol<\/p>\n
Molecule \u2013 biobased chemical: Genomatica \u2013 BDO<\/p>\n
Molecule \u2013 transformative biobased material: CoolPlanet Cool Terra<\/p>\n
Plant or integrated biorefinery: LanzaTech \u2013 BaoSteel demonstration plant, Shanghai, China<\/p>\n
Town or industrial symbiosis: Bio XCell, Nusajaya, Malaysia<\/p>\n
State, region, or country: State of Louisiana, USA<\/p>\n
The winners will join the Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy, and the winners of the 2013-14 Biofuels Digest Awards at a gala awards reception on Monday April 21st, 2014 at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, meeting this week in Washington DC.<\/p>\n
Biofuels Digest, the world\u2019s most widely-read bioeconomy daily, has more than 650,000 readers in 190+ countries, and publishes more than 4,000 original bioeconomy stories each year via e-newsletters, web, mobile and social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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