Biodiesel News

Green3Power Operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of BioPower Operations, has been granted permission to build a $175 million (€158.5 million) biofuels plant in Florida's St. Lucie County, US. The energy facility will convert waste into ultra-low sulfur synthetic green No. 2 diesel fuel using G3P's gasification technology and the Fischer-Tropsch process. It will be located at the existing…
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Boeing and Japanese aviation industry stakeholders have charted a course to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, when millions of people are expected to visit Japan. The Initiatives for Next Generation Aviation Fuels (INAF) – a consortium of 46 organisations including Boeing, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan Airlines, Nippon…
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Boeing has announced the next phase in ecoDemonstrator 757 testing, including the first flight with US-made 'green diesel' and two new environment-related technologies. These developments advance the ecoDemonstrator programme's mission to accelerate the testing and use of technologies to improve aviation's environmental performance. 'With the ecoDemonstrator, Boeing looks to reduce environmental…
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Atlantic Biodiesel has officially opened its state-of-the-art renewable fuel facility located in the Niagara Greenbelt in Welland, Ontario. 'Our facility is up and running. We are excited to be a part of this community and to support the local economy. We are making a commitment today; where we are able to, we're going to source locally,' says Michael Paszti, COO of Atlantic Biodiesel . The new…
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Amyris, an industrial bioscience company, has announced the successful completion of a diesel demonstration program with Volkswagen of America. The program was designed to test the commercial readiness of Amyris renewable diesel and its ability to enhance VW’s diesel technology. The collaboration included evaluating emissions reductions and demonstrating the performance of…
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Methes Energies has entered into agreements with certain institutional investors for a registered direct placement of approximately $1.25 million (€1.1 million) of common stock at a price of $0.5435 per share. In addition, the company will issue to the investors warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,781,292 shares of common stock (approx. 77% warrant coverage). The warrants have an exercise…
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Industrial bioscience company Amyris and Total Energies Nouvelles Activités USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total S.A., (Total) have announced plans to restructure their existing fuels joint venture The agreement will allow Amyris to proceed with the commercialisation of its jet fuel technology over the coming years. Following the restructuring, Total would own 75% of the joint venture…
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Ceres, an agricultural biotechnology company, has been awarded a US patent for a genetic sequence derived from soyabean, covering uses of the gene in areas such as research, product development and plant transformation. The company believes that its gene is useful in regulating key biosynthetic processes that are the target of a class of commercial herbicides. Ceres plans to offer other seed…
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Palm oil is predominantly consumed for food applications, however in the last decade palm oil consumption for biofuels has increased considerably. According to Frost & Sullivan, global palm oil production is expected to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 5.9% in the period 2011 to 2020 to reach 84 million tonnes. The majority of this growth is expected to come from Indonesia with…
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Alaska Airline is teaming up with the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) to advance the production and use of alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the tree limbs and branches that remain after a forest harvest. As the airline partner for NARA, Alaska Airlines intends next year to fly a demonstration flight using 1,000 gallons of alternative…
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Archer Daniels Midland Co. is temporarily stopping production at its biodiesel plant in Leer in Germany due to uncertainty about the future of biodiesel in the country, it said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. ADM states it will reassess biodiesel market requirements in the third quarter of this year. Targets for biodiesel use in Germany have been scaled back progressively…
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Gevo has announced a breakthrough to its fermentation technology that will allow it to produce isobutanol from cellulosic feedstocks such as wood waste which can then be converted into Gevo's alcohol-to-jet fuel. Gevo currently makes isobutanol from corn at its plant in Luverne, Minnesota, but its process has always had the flexibility to adapt to other feedstocks. The patented Gevo Integrated…
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