Should we be picking the winning alternative energy feedstocks right now? Emerson's Douglas Morris explores this question in today's guest post. I'd like to start this blog post with a question: When you hear the term biofuels, what typically comes to mind? Chances...
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GTL, In Fact, Stands for Something Other than Gym-Tan-Laundry
Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the alternative energy team, shares his thoughts on the developments in natural gas to liquid conversion to help diversify U.S. sources of energy. Even though I'm from New Jersey, I'm not going to discuss the daily ritual of...
Optimizing Combustion Performance
I saw a tweet from Control magazine editor-in-chief Walt Boyes, which alerted me to a presentation that I needed to get my hands on. Emerson's Bob Sabin, a member of the industrial energy team, was kind enough to provide me a copy. You may recall Bob from several...
A New Lifeline for Advanced Biofuels
Douglas Morris from Emerson's Alternative Energy team comments on the recent announcement by the U.S. government to use the Defense Production Act to spur the development of advanced biofuels. In the past year, the advanced biofuels industry has hit a bit of a rough...
Trends in U.S. Biomass Energy Production
Emerson's Dennis Tkacs, a strategic program manager in the Power & Water Solutions division, shares his thoughts on the use and trends biomass-based energy production in the United States. While a significant amount of energy is generated from biomass, not too...
Financial Challenges in Scaling First of a Kind Technologies
Douglas Morris, who is part of Emerson's alternative energy industry team, discusses some of the financial challenges alternative energy producers face when scaling up first of a kind technology: Advanced biofuels are a strategic part of the 21st century's strategy to...
Advancing Biofuel Production
Emerson's director of alternative energy, Al Novak, appears in a recent Forbes magazine article, The Real Promise Of Advanced Biofuels. You may recall Al from prior alternative energy-related posts. He notes that more than 100 companies are working on many different...
Biomass Fuel in Alternative Energy Production
I caught up last week with Emerson's Al Novak. You may recall Al from some of our alternative fuels-related posts. He mentioned that they had another Alternative Fuels and Energy Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focus of this summit was on using "biomass" feed...
Alternative Fuels from Coal and Petroleum Coke Gasification
As yesterdays's Wall Street Journal points out in the article, Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea, oil companies have to look in increasingly difficult places to find energy. As energy producers look beyond oil and gas for other energy sources, alternative fuels...
Alternative Fuels Regional Summit Coming to Houston
Finding alternative sources of energy remains a large, global topic. A quick check of Google News returns almost 8,000 news items in the past month alone. The Emerson Alternative Fuels team, led by director Al Novak, is holding a fourth regional summit on December 16...
Animal Fat to Biodiesel
Austin Texas is home to lots of discrete manufacturing businesses with companies such as Dell, IBM, Samsung, Freescale, Advanced Micro Devices, etc. to name a few. It's not historically known for process manufacturing, which I shorthand describe as "stuff flowing...
Improving Multi-Fuel Boiler Performance
As process manufacturers grapple with high fuel costs to create the steam for their processes, they often look to increase the use of biomass and alternate fuels in their boilers. vThe key measurement is typically the cost per pound of steam. This can be reduced by...
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