Jun 6, 2017
Diesel car sales dip in UK as drivers shift gear to electric
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]
Biodiesel News
May 23, 2017
Sweden’s largest airport operator Swedavia has received its first volume of aviation biofuels for 2017 at Gothenburg Airport.
With this delivery, Swedavia takes a next step in reducing its entire business travel footprint from flying through its partnership with Fly Green Fund.
The aviation biofuel is produced by AltAir Fuels and supplied by SkyNRG together with... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 19, 2017
Can it be that we need to stop using diesel?” asks Seppo Mikkonen, a research and development fellow at Neste, on the company’s blog.
Judging from his post on the matter, the answer is a clear no.
Diesel has become a hugely controversial issue, as scientists and the media become increasingly aware of the dangers of the nitrogen dioxide fumes emitted by the... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 18, 2017
Pacific Biodiesel Technologies is expected to begin the first harvest of its Maui sunflower biofuel crop this month, once the flowers have fully matured, according to Lahaina News.
The company has recently taken delivery of a combine harvester, purchased from a family farm in northern California, which will be used to mechanically harvest the sunflowers and other oil and... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 18, 2017
Beverly Hills based diversified holding company SuperBox has signed a joint venture agreement with PK Clean Technologies, a developer of waste plastic-to-fuel technologies.
SuperBox will acquire an 80% interest in one of PK Clean’s operating plants once it raises enough funds to double the size of an existing PK Clean plant to 20 tonnes per day. PK Clean meanwhile,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 16, 2017
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 13777, “Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda”. The order called for input on regulations that might be in need of repeal, replacement or modification – and was issued with the intention of highlighting... [Read More]
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