Biodiesel News

Phillips 66 and Renewable Energy Group (REG) have decided to discontinue their joint effort to build a large-scale renewable diesel plant in Ferndale in the US state of Washington. According to a statement from the partners, the project has been cancelled due to permitting delays and uncertainties. Originally announced in 2018, the 250 million gallon per year facility would have been the…
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Renewable fuels producer Neste will deliver sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Zurich Airport during this year’s World Economic Forum, taking place in Davos, Switzerland later in January. This is the first time SAF has been made available in Switzerland. The fuel, which is known as Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel, has up to 80% smaller carbon footprint compared to fossil jet fuel. The…
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A new study carried out by economic modelling experts from Purdue University in the US has found the impacts of US biofuel policy on deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia to be insignificant. The study, titled ‘US Biofuel Production and Policy Implications for Land Use Changes in Malaysia and Indonesia’, considered concerns from renewable fuel opponents claiming that biofuels are to…
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The Italian Competition and Market Authority (all'Autorità Garante per la Concorrenza e il Mercato in Italian) has fined Italian oil major Eni for deceiving consumers over its ‘green’ diesel in TV, newspaper, digital media and petrol station advertisements. In Italy’s first ever ruling against greenwashing, the watchdog ruled that Eni’s advertisements falsely claimed that Eni Diesel+…
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Oilseed processor Crown has introduced a new pretreatment system for renewable diesel, which doubles hydrotreater catalyst life, yields high output of pretreated product and guarantees product quality specifications with any feedstock. Through maximising contaminant removal, the company’s renewable diesel pretreatment system delivers clean feedstock to renewable diesel hydrotreaters. The…
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World Energy and World Fuel Services have launched a World Economic Forum (WEF) Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) programme designed to increase SAF availability and supply chain efficiency within the aviation industry. The programme will be available for business jets travelling to the WEF 50th annual meeting, enabling lower carbon emissions on all flights departing from Jet Aviation’s…
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The United Arab Emirates’ national airline, Etihad Airways, has become the latest to commit to a minimum target of zero net carbon emissions by 2050. The airline plans to halve its 2019 net emission levels by 2035 through a combination of internal initiatives, collaboration with industry partners, as well as the adoption of a comprehensive programme of relevant carbon offsets. “The…
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Finnish company UPM has marked the five-year anniversary of the start of operations of the first biorefinery in the world to produce wood-based advanced biofuels, the Lappeenranta Biorefinery. The facility uses wood-based residual raw material crude tall oil to produce renewable fuels that decrease emissions and mitigate climate change. The biorefinery currently produces around 160 million…
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The National Farmers Union of Scotland (NFU Scotland) is currently pursuing high-level solutions to the machinery problems many Scottish and UK farmers have been experiencing, linked to the biofuel content in fuel. As fuel is a reserved issue, NFU Scotland is seeking support from both the Scottish and UK Governments to find a solution and mitigate the problem. At the end of last year, fuel…
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Cielo Waste Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Renewable U Halifax to build a renewable diesel refinery in, or within 150km of, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. A framework is expected to be provided for the construction and operation of a 4,000-litre-per-hour joint venture refinery in Nova Scotia at an estimated cost of CAD$50 million (€36.5 million), which will…
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A team of researchers from Tokyo Tech and Taiwan Tech have discovered a way to efficiently use the surplus glycerol produced in the production of biodiesel. Biodiesel, which is made using vegetable oils through a process known as transesterification, produces excessive amounts of glycerol. In Europe alone, it is estimated that the biodiesel industry produces a surplus of 1.4 million tonnes of…
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Canada-based Cielo Waste Solutions and its contractors have completed optimisation of the design of the world’s first waste to renewable fuels refinery at Aldersyde in Alberta, Canada. The work required extensive changes to the process, as well as the installation of multiple new pieces of equipment required before being able to bring Cielo’s green refinery back into continuous-flow…
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