Jun 12, 2017
First generation biofuels don’t have to mean food shortages, according to UN official
Biodiesel News
Jun 9, 2017
The government of Queensland, Australia has announced it will inject $8.64 million (€5.8 million) into a proposed $50 million (€33.7 million) biorefinery, in a bid to help accelerate the project’s development and construction.
It is hoped the new biorefinery could create up to 115 jobs, positioning Queensland’s Mackay region as an emerging bio-industry... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 8, 2017
Avril, Europe’s largest biodiesel producer, says a rebound in oil prices since early 2016 has improved the industry outlook. However, the company also warned that an EU proposal to cap crop-based ‘first generation’ biofuels could harm the biodiesel sector in the long term, according to Reuters.
Following a steep drop in orders, the French company said... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 8, 2017
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) has announced that it will give $500,000 in funding to Renaissance BioScience Corp (RSBC). The non-repayable contribution will support RSBC’s research and development of a proprietary, non GMO yeast strain development platform.
A global yeast technology company based in Vancouver,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 6, 2017
Finnish advanced biofuels producer Neste is putting a large amount of resources into research on waste and residue raw materials and promoting the circular economy.
In addition to biofuels, also bioplastics can be produced from waste and residues in the future. The company is also focusing its raw materials research on waste plastics as a substitute for crude oil in the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 6, 2017
More consumers in the UK are purchasing petrol and electric vehicles and shunning diesel cars.
Diesel car sales fell by around 20,000 from just under 102,000 in May 2016 to 81,489 last month.
In the same period, sales of petrol cars increased slightly to 96,518. A total of 8,258 vehicles using hybrid and electric motors were sold in May 2017, compared to 5,630 the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 5, 2017
Biodiesel and bioethanol use is declining in the German oil industry, according to official mineral oil data published by the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control for the first quarter of 2017.
Even though German diesel consumption rose by 7.4% to 9.3 million tonnes by March, the share of biodiesel fell by 7% to around 500,000 tonnes. The bioethanol share also... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 2, 2017
The price of soybean oil could increase sharply in 2018 as a result of US anti-dumping action against vegetable oils for biodiesel produced by Argentina and Indonesia, according to forecasts by data analyst specialists Informa Agribusiness Intelligence.
US action to impose countervailing duties against these countries on imports of soybean oil could push up the cost of... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 1, 2017
Australia’s ‘first’ biofuels pilot plant has been officially opened in Gladstone, Queensland. The opening ceremony was presided over by Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts, the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP.
The $18 million Northern Oil Advanced Biofuels Pilot Plant is a joint venture between Southern Oil and J.J. Richards & Sons,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 30, 2017
Neutral Fuels, a biodiesel producer based in the UAE, has become the first company in the world to commercialise an enzymatic biofuel.
For six years Neutral Fuels has been producing biodiesel using cooking oil, supplying high profile clients such as McDonalds UAE, which runs a fleet of renewably fuelled trucks on B100 biodiesel.
Karl W. Feilder, Neutral Fuels’ CEO... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 26, 2017
The US Environmental Protection Agency has published its Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN) generation data for April 2017.
Created in 2005 under that year’s Energy Policy Act, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a national policy requiring a certain volume of renewable fuel to replace or reduce the quantity of petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 25, 2017
Indian union minister Nitin Gadkari will urge the country’s finance minister to reduce the goods and services tax (GST) rates on cars that run on biodiesel, as well as hybrid vehicles, according to Times of India’s The Economic Times.
GST rates announced last week would see hybrid cars and biodiesel vehicles attract similar tax rates to luxury cars and SUVs.
The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 25, 2017
Scientists are developing gold catalysts to recycle one of the main by-products of biofuel production, glycerol. The chemical products obtained from the process are valuable to medicine, agriculture, the cosmetics industry and other sectors.
Published in the journal Current Organic Synthesis, the study was completed by scientists from the University of Milano, the National... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 25, 2017
Aemetis has announced that its India-based subsidiary Universal Biofuels has signed a three-year biofuels supply agreement with BP Singapore (BPS), the regional trading arm of BP, which has an expanding biofuels portfolio.
"The agreement sets forth the logistics, pricing and other terms of the supply to BPS of low carbon biodiesel," said Eric McAfee, chairman and... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 24, 2017
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has testified before Congress on the harm caused by biodiesel imports from Indonesia.
At a public hearing at the US Department of Commerce, held in response to executive order 13786 calling for an omnibus report on high trade deficits, NBB described the damage done by the increasing volumes of unfairly traded biodiesel imports. NBB... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 23, 2017
A team of biologists and biochemists have successfully sequenced the genome of a green alga called Chromochloris zofingiensis. The single celled organism is one of the most prolific producers of a type of lipids called triacylglycerols, which are used in biofuel production.
In a statement, the genome is labelled a ‘goldmine of data’. The new insights into the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 23, 2017
Two Iowa-based trade bodies have welcomed Kim Reynolds as Iowa Governor.
The trade body that represents the biodiesel industry in Iowa, Iowa Biodiesel Board and Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) welcomed the new governor.
ISA president Rolland Schnell of Newton and Grant Kimberley, ISA director of market development and executive director of the Iowa Biodiesel Board, issued... [Read More]
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