A new report calls for Europe to completely move away from first generation biofuels as the continent chases 2020 targets   A new report published near the end of January has put European green transportation...

The newly proposed biofuels levels in the US has sparked fierce defence by the industry in the face of stiff opposition   The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed its 2013 percentage...

California, which has long been considered a hub of innovation in the biofuels industry, has this week been named as the US’ ‘top biofuel state’. Environmental Entrepreneurs, a national...

The second generation production process is more complex than the first, largely because the carbon required is not present in a form that is easily available to microorganisms, such as starch or sugar....

Now Europe is being forced into taking cellulosic ethanol seriously, James Barrett looks at what producers can learn from ‘across the pond’   At the start of February seven giants came...

All commodities are vulnerable to price volatility and biofuels, just like their hydrocarbon counterparts, are no exception. Poor harvests, recession, competition for feedstock and political whimsy can...

In January 2013 Iogen Corporation announced that Danish enzyme manufacturer Novozymes was to acquire one of its two divisions, Iogen Bio-Products (IBP). IBP makes and sells a wide variety of enzyme products...

South America is home to two of the world’s biofuel powerhouses: Brazil, the ethanol king and Argentina, the biodiesel champion. Argentina is the second largest biodiesel producer with production...

The president of the Colombian National Federation of Biofuels Jorge Bendeck reveals how the country is increasing its future production   Despite suffering from floods at the end of 2010 and start...

Already being trialled in Brazil, it seems there is no end to the end-uses for sugarcane   In countries such as Cuba, Spain and Thailand, sugarcane is cultivated solely for producing sugar and ethanol....

Nesté Oil is one company that should be delighted by the EC’s recent proposals favouring advanced biofuels. To find out more about the impact this will have Keeley Downey went to visit the...

Biofuel manufacturers are open to a number of potential environmental liabilities. Left uninsured these liabilities could badly affect the company’s financial performance   Biofuels manufacturers...

Grease theft, supply and demand fundamentals and a major new facility are the main stories in 2013 for biodiesel’s fat and grease recyclers   In the early morning hours of December 28 in Riverside,...

Research into biofuels not based around human foodstuffs, but rather start as wild grass or a by-product, requires special experimental tools which are a key part of the race towards renewable source fuels...

The conversion of biomass feedstocks into second generation biofuels presents many challenges both to process developers and producers. While technological progress has been recently achieved, we still...

Recent technology developments will allow process improvements to be introduced into the biofuels industry driving yield and plant profitability higher than the currently expected yield baseline results...

With high feedstock prices in the US, high bagasse prices for steam in Brazil and low ethanol prices across the board, the ethanol industry is struggling to stay profitable. The market is not seeing major...

Changing market circumstances lead to new challenges for existing biodiesel plants that were originally designed to process vegetable and waste oils   Biodiesel standards are becoming more stringent...

Renewable fuels company JatroFuels gives an insight into the current state of jatrophabased transport fuel   Recognising the challenges of sustainability, biodiversity and delicate ecosystems, it...

In today’s unpredictable and volatile marketplace, a flexible facility can avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy   There is growing opportunity to successfully develop community-scale oilseed processing...

Non-food feedstocks such as wood, straw and grass have obvious advantages. However they mainly contain lignocellulose, a complex of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, which makes traditional fermentation...

Feedstocks for biofuels, whether food-based or otherwise (grass/ straw and waste sludge-like materials), must be pumped and mixed during processing. Particulate material, sometimes fibrous in nature, populates...