The News Review:
- Q1 2007 Evergreen Energy Inc. Earnings Conference Call – Final.
- Eight firms in bid for Bosnia aluminum plant
- Water plant woes add $3M to city needs; Councilors fear upgrade…
- Researchers ‘Look Into’ Plant Cells to Increase Ethanol…
Q1 2007 Evergreen Energy Inc. Earnings Conference Call – Final.
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We are executing the program we established last quarter. Production has nearly doubled from approximately 300 tons per day to over 500 tons per day on the B Processor. Achieving the 500 ton per day threshold is important as it meets Bechtel’s specification for gathering data for commercial plant design. Currently our engineering staff is working with the operations crews to collect that data and it’s being used by Bechtel for commercial fuel plant applications. At the plant we are achieving consistent and reliable product quality. We continuously test product quality and have been producing on average a 10400 Btu product from 7900 to 8000 Btu feedstock. This improvement was primarily due to producing on a continuous basis and better drainage as a result of the optimization efforts.
Eight firms in bid for Bosnia aluminum plant
B92 – Apr 26, 2007
8mn officials said on Wednesday. The international tender for Bosnia’s largest exporter published on March 5 closed on Monday and the privatization agency of Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat federation said the best offers would be short-listed for due diligence in the firm starting on May 7. Among the firms that sent non-binding offers are Swiss-based metal trader Glencore International AG Aluminij’s long-time partner and Greek metals energy and engineering group Mytilineos the agency said in a statement. India’s largest private sector aluminum producer Hindalco Industries Ltd. has also applied as well as London-listed metals and mining group Vedanta Resources and Britain’s En+ Group. The agency also named the consortium of Lithuanian UKI Bank Investment Group and Poland’s Aluminium Konin-Impexmetal as interested firms. UKI Group owns a majority stake in Bosnia’s alumina producer Birac Zvornik and has announced it wants to invest some 300 million euros either in the construction of a new aluminum plant in Bosnia or in the acquisition of Aluminij… has also applied as well as London-listed metals and mining group Vedanta Resources and Britain’s En+ Group. The agency also named the consortium of Lithuanian UKI Bank Investment Group and Poland’s Aluminium Konin-Impexmetal as interested firms. UKI Group owns a majority stake in Bosnia’s alumina producer Birac Zvornik and has announced it wants to invest some 300 million euros either in the construction of a new aluminum plant in Bosnia or in the acquisition of Aluminij. Two more consortiums have also applied. ne gathers a Bosnian and two Croatian firms and was chosen as the best bidder this month for a majority stake in Croatia’s TLM company which owns a 12 percent stake in Aluminij Mostar. The other is the consortium of the German independent aluminum producer Trimet and Britain’s International Mineral Resources. The agency’s tender commission said that after due diligence the selected firms would have to send their bids by June 26.
Water plant woes add $3M to city needs; Councilors fear upgrade…
Gloucester Daily Times – Apr 26, 2007
He said that looming investment in water and sewer facilities could double today’s rates. The doubling would leave the typical homeowner with bills of around $2600 a year not too much less than the $4000 median real estate tax bill. Problems at sewer plantAt the Essex Avenue facility Tuesday officials from the city; Brown and Caldwell its engineering consultant; and EarthTech which manages the plant; brought in the councilors to point out the design flaws and tired workings. fficials emphasized the archaic electrical system. When the plant was built a generation ago the controls were installed in cinder-block basement rooms. Today’s building codes would not allow such installations. It places the control rooms below the level of the sea and the Annisquam River just across Essex Avenue so they flood frequently.
Researchers ‘Look Into’ Plant Cells to Increase Ethanol…
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April 26 (AScribe Newswire) — Tiny pores within plant cells may hold promise for green fuels. Researchers have discovered that particles from cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to produce ethanol an insight they said will help establish a viable method for large-scale production of ethanol from plant matter. Their research demonstrates that pretreating corn plant tissue with hot water – an accepted practice that increases ethanol yields 3 to 4 times – works by exposing minute pores of the plant’s cell walls thus increasing surface area for additional reactions that help break down the cell wall. “This brings together the tools that link the processing technology to the plant tissue physiology” said Nathan Mosier an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue. CPYRIGHT 2007 AScribe… Researchers have discovered that particles from cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to produce ethanol an insight they said will help establish a viable method for large-scale production of ethanol from plant matter. Their research demonstrates that pretreating corn plant tissue with hot water – an accepted practice that increases ethanol yields 3 to 4 times – works by exposing minute pores of the plant’s cell walls thus increasing surface area for additional reactions that help break down the cell wall. “This brings together the tools that link the processing technology to the plant tissue physiology” said Nathan Mosier an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue. CPYRIGHT 2007 AScribe.