Sapphire Energy named to the Biofuels Digest "30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010"
Jim Lane
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the winners of its “30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010″ poll. The publication’s readers submitted more than 48,000 votes from 3,500 ballots during the three-week voting process.
The readers chose between transformative bioenergy technologies at more than 250 companies, universities and national laboratories, including 100 organizations that received write-in votes.
The 2010 Transformative Technology 30
(Please follow the link below for more data on each organization’s technologies)
Algenol (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms)
Amyris Biotechnologies (Microbial fuels)
BioEnergy International (Renewable chemicals)
Butamax (Biobutanol technologies)
Ceres (Advanced feedstock technologies)
ClearFuels-Rentech (Fischer-Tropsch technologies)
Cobalt Technologies (Biobutanol technologies)
Coskata (Cellulosic ethanol)
DuPont – BioArchitecture Lab (Seaweed – Macroalgae technologies)
Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (Cellulosic ethanol)
Energy Allied International, The Seawater Foundation and Global Seawater (Salt-tolerant feedstocks)
Ford Motor Company – Bobcat project (Engine technologies)
Genencor (Enzyme technologies and platforms)
Gevo (Biobutanol technologies)
Green Biologics (Biobutanol technologies)
Joule Unlimited (Microbial fuels)
KL Energy (Small scale systems and microfuelers)
LS9 (Microbial fuels)
Mascoma (Cellulosic ethanol/Consolidated Bioprocessing)
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing, Etihad Airways and UOP Honeywell (Salt-tolerant feedstocks)
Novozymes (Enzyme technologies and platforms)
OriginOil (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms)
PetroAlgae (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms)
POET (Cellulosic ethanol)
Qteros (Cellulosic ethanol/Consolidated Bioprocessing)
Sapphire Energy (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms)
SBI Bioenergy (Biodiesel systems)
SES – Seaweed Energy Solutions (Seaweed – Macroalgae technologies)
Solazyme (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms)
Verenium (Cellulosic ethanol)
Overall, the 30 selected organizations represented 14 of the 18 total categories in the poll. Among categories that did not produce a winner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s butanol-based project led in the Electrofuels category, Iowa State led in the Pyrolysis category, the Solana/British Airways project led in the waste-to-energy category, and UOP led in the Chemical reforming and hydroprocessing category.
Close competition between numerous competing technologies within a category in many cases prevented outstanding companies from reaching the Top 30 – notably, fierce competition in the waste-to-energy, pyrolysis and enzyme technology categories. Support for organizations developing microalgae-based technologies was particularly strong with 17.83 percent of readers selecting the category as a whole.
