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Refund Policy

Even with sluggish demand for distillate fuels in the US this year, which is trailing the 2011 consumption rate by 3.7% through mid-October, US biodiesel producers had something to cheer in...
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Another five-year wait

The much awaited announcement from the European Commission came in mid-October revealing that fuel suppliers will not be accountable for indirect land use change (ILUC), but confirming that...
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European clash of the year

To counter-act allegations of spreading false rumours and involvement in fraudulent actions in regard to biodiesel origin and custom tariffs, Norwegian producer Uniol will take legal action...
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Making the price right

KLM ambitiously set out a goal to increase its biofuel consumption to 1% of its total fuel use by 2015. Considering biojet fuel is three to four times the price of fossil fuel, this is no...
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Project Thunderbird is go

Across Native American tribal lands from Washington to New York, a new bioenergy initiative is underway named Project Thunderbird.

The aim of the project is to build $3...
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Riding the rollercoaster

Although a number of southeast Asian countries have introduced minimum biofuel blending mandates, not all governments have succeeded in enforcing them, with biofuel producers in some...
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Four times a charm

What is large, green and been causing ripples on a global scale? Nope, we’re not talking about the re-emergence of comic book character The Incredible Hulk but of the humble...
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Thai-ing themselves to biofuels

Thailand authorities have this November stepped up the country’s biodiesel programme by raising the compulsory blend ratio of palm methyl ester from 4% to 5% following a previous...
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Setting the record straight

The ethanol sector in Pakistan has been the subject of much controversy in recent months, with producers being accused of unfairly insisting on a 15% export tax on the feedstock molasses to...
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Weeding out Scottish fuels

Since news that Europe may be capping foodbased biofuels at 5% of the total amount of renewable energy used in transport, interest in alternative non-food feedstocks such as marine biomass...
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Combining two proven technologies

As the ethanol industry continues to search for methods and technologies that improve margins in a high-input cost industry, several key aspects of these improvements require evaluation....
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Scaling up step by step

The recommended approach for scaling bioenergy and biofuels technology follows a similar stage gate process to that used in traditional Chemical Process Industry (CPI) processes. But the...
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Time for change

The world is changing faster and faster every day. Paper, fax machines and landline phones are something from the last century. For babies that are coming into the world in developed...
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Last of the losses

Neste Oil saw Asian palm as an advantageous feedstock platform for renewable diesel years ago and has used the feedstock to build one of the leading biofuels operations in Europe.

Feeling the heat of RFS waiver requests from food and feed producers over high corn and soyabean prices, biofuels stakeholders have said blame should really be placed on...
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Co-products key to profitability for US ethanol producers

US ethanol producers continue to become more diversified in the types of products they refine for sale, thus improving their ability to sustain profits in times of high feedstock costs and...
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Comparing the new with the old

If a biodiesel feedstock has higher free fatty acid (FFA) than say 1%, a preprocessing step has to be deployed to be able to either eliminate or reduce the amount of FFA in the oil which...
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Amperometric detection

Today many biodiesel manufacturers use an alkali catalyst in the transesterification process as reaction rates under acid or enzyme catalysts are relatively slow in comparison.

Biodiesel sold within the EU must fulfill several quality criteria in order to avoid damages to modern diesel engines. All relevant parameters, their limits and the appropriate test methods...
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Establishing the economics

Despite a tremendous amount of research that has been carried out on lignocellulosic feedstocks, the technology is still not available on a commercial scale yet.

This...
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Increasing bioethanol yields with solid-state fermentation products

Industrial applications such as bioethanol and animal nutrition require an ever-wider variety of raw materials. This long-term trend calls for the creation and development of increasingly...
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