http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/subscription-homepage.pag?svcid=D763 - Technical Insights - Industrial Bioprocessing Alert en-us Technical Insights Alert This week's issue of Industrial Bioprocessing Alert profiles the development of starch-based biosustainable plastics; a polymer-based technology platform aiding in effective delivery of therapeutics and vaccines; ready made mini chromatography columns, which enable multiplexing of protein seperation; research findings enabling the removal of free fatty acids using zeolite catalysts; and finally analyst insights figuring out the strengths and success factors behind biofuels. Key patents from the bioprocess industry are also included. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-9A-00-00 Fri, 9 May 2008 01:02:40 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-9A-00-00 Technical Insights Alert Greenline Industries have made use of Amberlite BDIODRY technology developed by Rohm and Haas, to come out with waterless biodiesel manufacturing technology. PetroSun has been considering using microalgae as a source for producing biofuel and is planning to produce an estimated 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million lbs.of biomass per year off a series of saltwater ponds that span 1,100 acres. BioChemics Inc. based at Danvers, Massachusetts, has pioneered a novel drug delivery technology based on microencapsulation thus enabling an efficient transdermal delivery of a wide variety of pharmaceutical drugs in the market. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-99-00-00 Fri, 2 May 2008 06:07:24 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-99-00-00 Technical Insights Alert This week's alert features the world's first commercially viable cellulosic ethanol plant and a plant system for high-quality human collagen production. In addition, protein engineering technologies for production of functionally optimized biotherapeutics, and some important patents have been featured. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-98-00-00 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:39:34 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-98-00-00 Technical Insights Alert A team of researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a novel technical solution for optimization of Pichia pastoris shake flask cultures, which can be ideally used for production of stable human type II collagen. A novel plastic membrane to scrub out carbon dioxide from the environment has been developed by an international team of researchers. Scientists at the Innovations of Leningrad Institutes and Enterprises in St. Petersburg have developed a new fullerene production technique that addresses the problems encountered with the conventional methods. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-97-00-00 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:28:42 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-97-00-00 Technical Insights Alert Xenome has a unique proprietary library of venom peptides that can be translated into robust libraries of biomolecules. A study at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) elaborates on the potential of switchgrass as a biomass fuel. In an effort to bring attention to other crops aside from tomatoes that are high in lycopene, researchers from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Arkansas have carried out lycopene extraction studies on watermelons. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-96-00-00 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:12:23 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-96-00-00 Technical Insights Alert Interesting study at the Montana State University has resulted in promising findings suggesting that lipids from micro algae are suitable for refining into conventional fuels. Procognia, an Israel-based biotechnology company has an innovative glycoanalysis solutions platform for the determination of levels of glycosylation in a most rapid, easy, and cost-effective manner. Bioecon, a Netherlands-based biofuels startup company has created a novel process and catalysts for hydrocarbon biocrude production from agricultural wastes such as wood waste, sugarcane waste, and diesel using existing infrastructures prevalent in oil refineries. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-95-00-00 Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:32:26 +0100 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-95-00-00 Technical Insights Alert Iowa State University is developing porous nanoparticle catalysts to convert syngas made from biomass into ethanol. CleanTech Biofuels Inc. and its engineering firm partner, Merrick, are ready to begin operating the first phase of their project to manufacture biofuel ethanol from municipal solid waste (MSW). High-corn prices have prompted Gulf Ethanol to begin retrofitting now unprofitable ethanol plants so that it can manufacture ethanol from cellulosic materials. Israel's Seambiotic is operating algae ponds in a pilot project to sequester carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and generate oil for biodiesel from algae. PetroSun is staring operation of an 1100-acre commercial scale algae pond in Texas to make feedstock for biodiesel. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-94-00-00 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:49:19 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-94-00-00 Technical Insights Alert GreenField Ethanol and Enerkem Technologies Inc. form a 50-50 joint venture to produce ethanol from biomass syngas. Colusa merger with Pan Gen Global provides funding for evaluating a process for making ethanol and silicate from rice hulls and straw. Zymetis now offers enzymes to hydrolyze biomass. Petrobras and KiOR collaborate on manufacturing bio-oil from sugar cane waste in Brazil. Discoveries at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst could enhance uranium bioremediation. Recombinant yeast created at Delft University of Technology could make production of malic acid by fermentation commercially feasible. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-93-00-00 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:37:18 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-93-00-00 Technical Insights Alert Oklahoma State's Ray Huhnke uses a bacterium to convert syngas into ethanol. Pacific Ethanol will test a production-scale PDX ethanol unit from Pursuit Dynamics that increases ethanol yield by pretreating grain feedstock. Alan Weimer of the University of Colorado at Boulder uses solar-thermal conversion to produce synthesis gas from biomass. Researchers at the Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland discover that illumination of xylanase enzyme with polarized light raises its activity. Catchlight is the joint venture Chevron and Weyerhaeuser have formed to develop biofuels. A team headed by Mattheos Koffas of the University of Buffalo has constructed a recombinant microorganism that produces flavonoids. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-92-00-00 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:50:37 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-service-segment.pag?Src=RSS&segid=D764-00-92-00-00