
Mar 21, 2016
Godavari Biorefineries increases ethanol production capacity to 50 million litres
Bioethanol News
Mar 10, 2016
South Korea's TN Energy has entered into an agreement with Lao State Fuel to set up a joint venture (JV) to produce Power Gasoline-branded bioethanol fuel.
The JV, to be called Lao K-tech, will be established later this year and it will be located at Dongphosy village in Hadxaifong district, Vientiane, Laos.
In the first year, the companies will work together to survey... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 8, 2016
Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa Bioenergy has secured an emergency bankruptcy loan that will allow the company to operate and pay wages while it attempts to reorganise.
According to a Reuters report, the company has received a $7 million loan to pay bills while it attempts to restructure its operation after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week.
The company... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 7, 2016
Florida-based biofuel developer Benchmark Renewable Energy (BRE) is planning to develop a large-scale bioethanol operation in Jamaica.
According to BRE, once completed the plant will have a production capacity of 10 million gpy of ethanol, with an additional 3MW of electricity produced for the local grid.
The required investment for the plant is expected to be approximately... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 3, 2016
New records were set in 2015 for US ethanol production and blending, with more than 14 billion gallons of ethanol produced, says the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
According to the EIA data, US ethanol producers churned out 14.81 billion gallons of ethanol in 2015, while refiners and blenders integrated an unprecedented 13.69 billion gallons into... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 2, 2016
Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen has called for the EU to introduce a blending mandate for advanced biofuels by 2030 to help decarbonise the transport sector.
The chief executive of the biotech specialist made the announcement at an energy security conference which took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 February, 2016.
He urged the EU to promote advanced... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 24, 2016
JP Energy Partners, a US-based biofuels terminal operator, has initiated the expansion of its existing rail facilities at its North Little Rock refined products terminal, located in Arkansas, to allow for unit train deliveries of ethanol.
The upgrades will materially improve the terminal's ethanol offloading efficiency and capacity, allowing for offloading of up to 108... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 19, 2016
Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals producer, and Werner & Mertz (W&M), the producer of Frosch cleaning products, has launched a project which expands the possible applications of bioethanol.
Clariant’s sunliquid cellulosic ethanol – made from agricultural residues such as straw – will be processed into detergents, cleansers and cleaning agents... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 17, 2016
Alliance BioEnergy Plus has formed a strategic alliance with Harvesting Technology (HT) for the inclusion of its licensed and patented advanced separation process.
Alliance plans to utilise the separation technology alongside its CTS cellulose conversion process in ethanol applications.
When used in a dry mill corn ethanol plant, the HT process is able to separate... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 12, 2016
Interest from Mexican buyers in US ethanol imports is growing, with purchases increasing 1,756% from 2006 until last marketing year.
According to the US Grains Council (USGC), in 2006/2007 Mexico bought just 6.8 million litres of US ethanol, while during the 2014/2015 marketing year purchases were 126.5 million litres.
Mexico’s current imports of US ethanol... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 12, 2016
Pacific Ethanol, a US producer and marketer of renewable fuels, and Whitefox Technologies, a UK-based clean fuel membrane specialist, have entered into a technology license and purchase agreement for an industrial scale membrane system that separates water from ethanol in the plant's distillation system.
Pacific Ethanol expects commercial operations using the new technology... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 12, 2016
The European renewable ethanol association (ePURE) has urged the European Commission to introduce a binding framework promoting the use of renewable fuels in transport.
In a submission to the public consultation for the new Renewable Energy Directive (REDII), which is being drafted this year and will cover the period 2020-2030, ePURE sets out the case for a binding framework... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 11, 2016
Green Plains, a US-based commodity processing firm, said that it had a fourth-quarter loss, from a profit a year earlier, due to depressed selling prices for ethanol.
The Omaha-based company said the net loss was $3.6m (€2.73m), or 9 cents a share, from net income of $42m, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 11% to $740m, compared with $830m for the same... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 9, 2016
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), a US-based food processing and commodities trading company, is conducting a strategic review on its ethanol mills, as its ethanol arm continues to be hit by falling oil prices.
The firm announced, last week, that two of its dry ethanol mills, based in Nebraska and Iowa, will be reviewed for "strategic options" — an analysis that... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 8, 2016
Argentina is set to beef up its ethanol production by increasing the required blend of ethanol in gasoline from 10% to 12%, according to media reports.
The South American country's President, Mauricio Macri, said the additional ethanol would be exclusively derived from sugar, according to news agency Reuters.
The increase should provide a boost to farmers there who have... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 5, 2016
Egregor Biotech and Evolution Group is planning to construct a bioethanol plant in the forest-rich Komi Republic in Northern Russia.
The plant would process 400,000 tpy of unusable timber and sawmill residues into 100,000 tonnes of ethanol, according to the Komiinform news agency.
Egregor has already invested RUB15 million (€177,000) in the project, but the total... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 1, 2016
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R) have successfully generated low-cost biofuel using a perennial weed, the Kans grass.
The grass, native to the Indian subcontinent, grows up to three feet in height and, being widely available and perennial, comes at low cost.
"Through our technology, which we have now got patented, bioethanol will be produced... [Read More]