ABIN.RIBBA

Enerkem Inc., a company supporting the ABIN network, has succeeded in coupling gasification,  syngas conditioning and methanol synthesis. The latter is a key step in the subsequent production of ethanol from methanol. The effort is carried out at Enerkem's demonstration plant at Westbury, QC, where 1.5 tonnes/h of residual biomass (spent electrical poles and sorted municipal solid waste) are being converted (O2 / steam gasification) into syngas.  The successful coupling started in the week of October 18, 2010.

Professor Murray Thomson (University of Toronto) and Chantal Gloor, Manager, ABIN and Director of Administration & Operations, ICFAR represented ABIN at the Annual General Meeting of ABIP in Ottawa, Ontario June 10, 2010. Their presentation can be seen here.

With economic fears top of mind, going green may not be the major concern for small businesses. But becoming an environmentally friendly operation can be well worth it in terms of cost savings and attracting customers.

Former APEGS president Steve Halabura, P.Geo F.E.C. (Hon.) is looking for Saskatchewan’s energy future in an odd place: in its past. Halabura and his business colleagues are working to take Saskatchewan’s oldest and (up until now) dirtiest resource and reinvent it for the 21st century.

The need for collaboration between agriculture and government was one of the key points raised at a green energy conference held in London earlier this week.

In the fanciful Brothers Grimm fairy tale, dwarfish Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold to win the miller’s daughter’s first born child. The federal government is spending money to turn straw, and other products left after crop harvest and processing, into this Millennium’s equivalent of gold, green energy.