Oct 2, 2014
US Energy Department plans to overhaul algae production
Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
Crop company Agrisoma Biosciences has finished the first closing of its Series A financing round, expected to total $8 million through 2014.
Cycle Capital Management led the financing round, which included participation of BDC Venture Capital, one of Agrisoma's current equity investors.
Certified sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Carinata... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
International aviation group Lufthansa and sustainable energy specialists JatroSolutions have signed an MoU to make the production of jatropha commercially viable.
Lufthansa will help the start-up company set up a raw materials supply chain to ensure the provision of biosynthetic fuel derived from the jatropha plant.
Joachim Buse, VP, Aviation Biofuel at Lufthansa, says:... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has filed comments with the European Commission (EC) challenging blocked US biodiesel exports to Europe.
Since 2009, the EC has prevented biodiesel exports trading from US to Europe, a move that the NBB calls 'unfair'.
NBB urges the EC to allow duties on US biodiesel imports to expire this year planned, arguing that global trade for biodiesel... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 30, 2014
KazMunayGas Trading has lost its court case against Austrian oil company OMV Petrom.
The product and supplies company will have to pay over $70 million (€56 million) to Romanian tax administration agency ANAF, for contentious biodiesel imports from Canada originating in the US.
This sum was awarded for recovering losses generated by the OLAF investigation and the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company based in Illinois, the US, will partner with Malaysia's Genting Plantations, through its subsidiary Genting Integrated Biorefinery, to build a 240,000-tonne factory at POIC Lahad Datu.
The factory, which will be the first in Malaysia, is thought to lead to new technologies in the area and a cluster of biorefineries... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels will supply biofuel to Southwest Airlines and to the military starting in 2016.
The airline has agreed to buy three million gallons of low-carbon jet fuel per year from advanced renewable provider Red Rock Biofuels. The fuel will be manufactured at a plant, soon to be constructed, in Lakeview, Oregon, US.
The $200 million plant will convert... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 23, 2014
SPA Renewables, an emerging company that specialises in the collection and processing of Used Cooking Oil into biodiesel, is installing an 8,000 tonnes per year biodiesel plant in Corinth, Greece.
IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company, which provides fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has signed a contract with SPA Renewables to supply the plant.
The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 22, 2014
On 23 September, Finnair used sustainable biofuel to operate its Airbus A330 flight from Helsinki to New York.
SkyNRG Nordic, a joint venture between SkyNRG and Statoil Aviation, provided the biofuel mixture, which was partly manufactured from cooking oil recycled from restaurants.
At present, aviation biofuels costs more than double the price of conventionally produced... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 19, 2014
Swiss Jatropower, a developer of Jatropha curcas seeds and associated agronomic technologies, has acquired a large majority of Quinvita’s assets.
Quinvita grew these activities over a period of seven years through their breeding programme and agronomic evaluations and experiments in several Asian, African and Latin American countries and scientific collaboration... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 12, 2014
SGB, an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, has successfully created a hybrid jatropha which has both high yield and rapid time to maturity.
In conjunction with these results, the company has closed an $11 million (€8.5 million) Series C financing to drive commercial rollout.
With its latest generation of jatropha hybrids, SGB has reduced the time to maturity... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 11, 2014
Asset advisory and auction company Heritage Global Partners (HGP) is to hold a telephonic auction of almost 10% economic interest in North Star Biofuels and related intellectual property owned by R Power Biofuels and Sauber, including a patent and certain trade secrets.
The winning bidder will acquire a 9.871% economic interest in a Watsonville, California-based company... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 27, 2014
Algae Systems has finished constructing its biofuel production demonstration project in Daphne, Alabama.
The company uses a process that combines wastewater with algae to cultivate the world's first energy-producing wastewater treatment process, using carbon-negative technologies to produce biofuels.
'This is the first demonstration of producing clean water and biofuel... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 27, 2014
Colorado State University (CSU) researches Camelina sativa, a feedstock that could be used to power vehicles.
CSU scientists are conducting a three-year study on Camelina sativa to study its potential as an economically viable and environmentally sustainable biofuels crop.
In July, the research team led by CSU agriculture professor John McKay was presented with a $1.5... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 27, 2014
National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia will use avtur, a type of aviation turbine fuel, with biofuel to help reduce its carbon emissions.
Starting in 2016, the airline will use approximately 1.8 billion litres per year of avtur to operate at its aircraft. As a result, from 2016, Garuda's jet fuel consumption is expected to reach 2 billion litres per year.
The state-owned... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 27, 2014
The US Navy and the Chilean Navy will continue their shared research on advanced alternative fuels for power surface vessels and navy aircraft.
After a four-year mutual agreement, this latest agreement enables both countries to reduce their dependence of imported fuels, and increase their energy security.
By 2020, the US Navy aims to have 50% of its operations fuelled... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 20, 2014
ASTM International standard D7566, Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesised Hydrocarbons now includes renewable synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel.
This recently approved revision adds the synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel to the ASTM D7566 annex, which will facilitate the use of the fuels in all international airlines. This standard ensures biobased fuel... [Read More]
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