May 17, 2016
Alkol Biotech sells large batch of sugarcane bagasse for 2G ethanol testing
Bioethanol News
May 17, 2016
A joint venture (JV) project between Chempolis Ltd and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), which should cost around €110 million, moves on after getting approval from NRL’s board.
The project has preceded several preparation stages including signing MoUs with neighbouring states of Assam for the sustainable supply of bamboo.
The parties will jointly build a world... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 16, 2016
US Water, a US-based provider of integrated solutions for water treatment, will give three technical presentations during the upcoming Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW), June 20 – 23, 2016 at the Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
During the FEW program, US Water’s applications engineer, Jared Galligan, will provide an industry update on water re-use and reduction.
Michael... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 16, 2016
US federal workplace safety officials are investigating a fatal fire at a South Dakota ethanol plant, according a report in the Argus Leader.
One person was killed and another person was injured in the fire which occurred on 6 May, 2016, at a Poet biorefining plant based in the US Midwestern state.
According to the media report, the cause of the fire has not been determined,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 16, 2016
Denmark has announced plans to set a 0.9% advanced biofuels blending mandate by 2020 for use in transportation as part of its aim to promote “green power”.
The announcement was made by the Danish Minister for Business and Growth for Energy, Utilities and Climate and is part of a broader proposal covering a range of energy issues.
In a statement, the Danish... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 13, 2016
Gevo, a US biofuels producer, has narrowed its first quarter loss by 51% to $3.6 million (€3.17m), compared to a net loss of $7.3 million during the same period in 2015.
In a first quarter 2016 statement, the company said it was working to make its processes more efficient and ramp-up isobutanol production.
First quarter revenue increased to $6.3 million from $5.9... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 12, 2016
Spanish renewable energy giant Abengoa’s Netherlands business has filed for bankruptcy.
In a statement, the company’s administrator Borsboom & Hamm said Abengoa’s Rotterdam ethanol plant has also been forced to close.
The plant is closed, removing around 380,000 tonnes per year of ethanol capacity from the market, and it is not clear for how long.
In... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 12, 2016
A bill has been introduced by a group of Republican Party members that aims to limit the total volume of ethanol contained in transportation fuel to 9.7%.
The bill is entitled HR 5180, the Food and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 2016 and was introduced in the US House of Representatives.
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), implemented in 2005, was designed to promote use... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 10, 2016
Canadian ethanol producer Calgren Renewable Fuels has invested in key co-products to sell in addition to its 58 million gpy ethanol output.
The Calgren plant, located in Pixley, California, was the state’s first when it was built in 2009.
Today, the company also sells 400,000 tpy of distiller’s grain for use as animal feed to local dairies and feedlots as well... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 6, 2016
Aemetis, a US-based advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company, has signed an agreement to acquire Edeniq, a US cellulosic ethanol technology company.
Under the terms of the agreement, Aemetis will acquire all of Edeniq's outstanding shares in a stock plus cash merger transaction.
Edeniq has developed patented innovations that unlock cellulosic and starch sugars through... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 5, 2016
Advance Bioenergy, a Minnesota, US-based biofuel producer, has shut down its South Dakota ethanol plant due to the facility falling behind in technological development.
The plant, located in the city of Aberdeen, was one of the first ethanol plants in the US when it began production in the early 1990s under the name of Heartland Grain Fuels.
But the plant was closed last... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 29, 2016
Poet-DSM, a joint venture cellulosic ethanol company, is expanding production capacity at its Iowa-based plant called Project Liberty.
The firm said it is ramping up production at its cellulosic ethanol plant to its full 20 million gallon per year capacity.
Project Liberty converts baled corn cobs, leaves, husk and stalk into renewable fuel. It converts around 770 tonnes... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 26, 2016
Green technology manufacturer India Glycols has officially launched a 750,000 litres per year cellulosic ethanol plant at one of its sites in Kashipur, India.
The demonstration-scale plant, based in Uttarakhand, is to run on wood chips, cotton stalk, cane bagasse, corn stover and bamboo.
According to the Business Standard, the facility has the capacity to consume... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 22, 2016
As Mexico works to implement energy reforms, the US Grains Council (USGC) is working to educate end-users and energy policymakers on the advantages of using ethanol as an oxygenate in fuel.
Last year, Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, announced its plan to introduce a first-ever pilot programme to blend petrol with ethanol.
Since then, it has awarded a few... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 20, 2016
The managing director from UK-based bioethanol producer Vivergo Fuels is urging the government to end uncertainty over targets to slash carbon emissions from fuel.
According to reports in the Hull Daily Mail, Mark Chesworth says the company is being held back from investing further in the region as a result of delays in meeting Renewable Energy Directive (RED) targets.
RED... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 20, 2016
India's government is urging its ethanol producers to boost ethanol production, according to a media reports.
According to a report in the Times of India, the government has said it is ready to purchase the country's entire output.
The development comes in the wake of the Indian government raising the ethanol blending target from 5% to 10%.
"Government is ready to purchase... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 19, 2016
Mexican students from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM) Coyoacan Campus have created bioethanol using newspaper, according to media reports.
The group of students, based in Mexico City, are called Alexys Stephanya Nájera, Ariel de Jesús González, Roberto Carlos Muñoz and Delia Calderón Crespo, according to news website mexiconewsnetwork.com.
The... [Read More]
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