During the last quarter of 2016 in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; the Cluster of Bioalcoholes officially started its operations.
http://www.cienciamx.com/index.php/tecnologia/biotecnologia/7501-cluster-de-bioalcoholes-del-centro-
The bioalcohols cluster is led by CINVESTAV – Guadalajara Unit and as technical manager: Dr. Arturo Sanchez Carmona, and integrated by eleven Mexican research groups participate in the Lignocellulosic Biofuels Cluster
The Biorefinery group at Autonomous University of Coahuila is part of the Cluster of Bioalcoholes (Bioethanol Consortium) of the Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (CEMIE-BIO) and Energy Sustainability Fund (CONACYT -SENER) in the stage pretreatment and fractionation biomass (hydrothermal pretreatment) on four raw materials in the conversion to bioethanol: Wheat straw, corn residues, sugarcane bagasse and agave bagasse. https://cemiebioalcoholes.org/
Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (CemieBio)
http://www.proyectofse.mx/2016/02/03/cemie-bio-los-frutos-la-biomasa/
The Mexican Innovation Centre in Bioenergy (known in Spanish as CemieBio) is a government initiative funded by the Secretary of Energy whose objective is to promote the use of all forms of bioenergy in order to contribute in reducing GHG emissions and diminishing the dependency on fossil fuels. With a 750 MM USD 4-year seed fund, CemieBio is comprised by five Consortia focusing on biogas, solid biofuels, biodiesel, aviation biofuel and bioethanol.
The Mexican Center for Innovation in Bioenergy (CEMIE-Bio) is dedicated to the development of technologies for the sustainable use of energy from forest resources, terrestrial and aquatic plants, agricultural, livestock, urban and industrial waste and by-products (biomass), and to the creation of products and services based on this, which allow Mexicans to take advantage of the enormous potential of the natural and residual biomass that the country has. https://www.gob.mx/sener/articulos/centro-mexicano-de-innovacion-en-bioenergia
The Bioethanol Consortium objectives are i) to foster the introduction of state-of-the-art technology for producing lignocellulosic bioethanol as a fossil fuel substitute; ii) to become in the medium term the leading entity in Mexico to promote the advance of research and technology development in liquid biofuels and iii) to collaborate with the Biogas and Biodiesel Consortia to promote biorefining technologies related to the production of these biofuels.
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Focusing on the simple and abstract, the image created for CEMIEBIO- Bioethanol Consortium holds great significance. Exploring basic ideas and concepts such as energy, industry and science; in addition to taking inspiration from pre-Hispanic lines; the design condenses – in a modern way – representative images of a star, a gear and a chemical reaction; symbols of bioenergy, progress and essence of the project, respectively.
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