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Jul 28

The Future is Now: Trash into Jet Fuel

American Airlines – the largest airline in the United States – has 627 planes alone. Those 627 planes need $7,190-million worth of jet fuel (including taxes), according to the company’s 2014 annual report. And that’s just one airline – Delta Airlines operated over 700 planes in 2013, and spent $11,668-million... read more →
Jul 28

Recycling at Its Best!

Although recycling rates have increased over the years, with 2013 having a 34.3-per-cent recycling rate, there is still much to be done. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that each person produces 4.4 pounds of waste per day, and only recycles or composts 1.51 pounds of that waste – that’s a... read more →
Jul 28

It’s Easy Being Green

Each year, millions of tons of woody biomass, agriculture residues, MSW and RDF, lignite, sludge as well as paper mill residues and black liquor are produced. ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. can transform these waste materials into fuels – from every day diesel fuel to jet fuel. Not only can this... read more →
Jul 28

Biofuel: Creating Value out of Garbage

Biofuel is taking the world by storm. Recent news stories are filled with airlines taking advantage of biofuel; for example, a United Airlines flight will be taking off some time this summer using fuel derived from animal waste and oils resulting from animal fats. Biofuel is the future – and... read more →
May 06

Fulcrum’s $200 million pick: Abengoa for EPC contractor of first MSW-to-jet fuel project in the US

The historic performance guarantee that’s at the centerpiece of the deal; the partnership that could lead to eight projects; Cathay Pacific, Waste Management and the US Navy in the mix. In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Abengoa to build the first biorefinery using gasification technology to convert municipal solid waste into syncrude that... read more →
May 05
Feb 27

TRI Reaches Milestone of Performance

TRI Successfully Passes 1,000 Hour Mark of Integrated Operation of its Thermochemical Biorefinery Demonstration Unit in Durham, North Carolina ThermoChem Recovery International (TRI), a leading renewable energy technology company headquartered in Baltimore, MD, today announced that it had recently surpassed 1,000 hours of integrated operation of its state-of-the-art biomass-to-liquids process... read more →
Nov 30

Producing Clean, Renewable Diesel from Biomass

After a rigorous testing process, Energy Department project partners at ThermoChem Recovery International (TRI) have validated a process that converts wood waste and forest residue into clean, renewable fuel. Pilot validation is a key milestone for biofuels companies like TRI. With critical engineering data in hand and the testing phase... read more →
Feb 09

Thermochemical Biorefinery Operating Results

by Dave Newport, VP of Project Management at TRI, Inc. This paper, presented by Dave Newport at the 2010 International Chemical Recovery Conference in Williamsburg VA, describes strategies for integrating a thermochemical platform biorefinery into an existing pulp and paper host site with minimum operating risk. It also describes TRI’s... read more →
Oct 07

The Integrated Thermochemical Biorefinery Platform

This presentation, which looks at biorefinery integration strategies, provides updates on two paper industry biorefineries in development, and discusses TRI’ biorefinery pilot plant was given at the TAPPI International Biorefinery and Bioenergy Conference in Memphis in October of 2009. The presentation reports on two case studies. One is the Flambeau... read more →