Sep 16, 2014
Partnership build cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2014
The Lufthansa Group is operating its LH 190 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin Tegel using a 10% blend of the new biofuel component farnesane.
This is the first scheduled flight in Europe to run on this sugar-based bio-kerosene fuel mix.
A rig test at Lufthansa Technik's facility in Hamburg last year, as part of the EU's 'Blending Study' project preceded Lufthansa's... [Read More]
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Sep 15, 2014
Buffalo Lake Advanced Biofuels has restarted its Minnesota, US plant.
Repairs and upgrades have been installed and tested on the plant since June.
The 18 MMgy plant was originally idled in 2009. It was then purchased by Purified Renewable Energy and run briefly in 2012. The company then filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and the facility was bought by West Ventures, one of the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2014
Energy Management Solutions (EMS), a subsidiary of ICM, has signed two new plant management agreements with Red River Energy, Rosholt, South Dakota and Midwest Renewable Energy, Sutherland, Nebraska.
The Red River Energy ethanol plant, which has a current operating capacity of 25 million gallons per year, will shortly restart full production after an 18-month idle period.
The... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 12, 2014
In India, Numaligarh Refinery (NRL), a Government of India Enterprise, and Finnish biorefinery technology corporation Chempolis have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Under the MoU, the two companies have agreed to jointly study and build a biorefinery in Assam, northeastern India, which will produce cellulosic ethanol from locally sourced biomass – namely... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Eco-Energy, a US-based biofuel supply chain company, has announced the development of an ethanol unloading, storage, and outbound truck loading facility in Augusta, Georgia. This facility will serve the Augusta and Savannah markets in Georgia.
The ethanol unit train facility will be equipped to receive up to 80 tank cars via Norfolk Southern Railway for distribution by... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Flint Hills Resources, a refining, chemicals and grain processing company, has signed an agreement with Southwest Georgia Ethanol to acquire its ethanol plant in Camilla in the US state of Georgia.
The plant opened in 2008 and is able to produce 100 million gallons a year of ethanol. It also produces more than 275,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains and approximately... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 11, 2014
Corn Oil One has begun constructing its new distillers corn oil facility, based in Iowa, US. The new plant, expected online early next year, will be one of the first to purify constituents out of distillers corn oil via a patent-pending process.
The plant is co-located with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy's (SIRE) ethanol plant and, in addition to removing high-value... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 9, 2014
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is investing €32 million in a new demonstration plant, to be built in Louisiana, US, following its recent acquisition of biotechnology association Virdia.
The plant will be used to validate, on an industrial scale, Virdia's technology. This newly acquired extraction and separation process enables cellulosic biomass, such... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 4, 2014
Project Liberty, the US's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, located in Emmetsburg, Iowa, has been officially opened.
A joint venture of DSM and Poet, Project Liberty will convert 285,000 tonnes a year of biomass sourced from within a 45-mile radius of the plant into renewable fuel. Feedstocks will include baled corn cobs, leaves, husk and stalk.
The plant... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2014
Refineries in the Iowa, US, will begin full operations using feedstocks other than corn kernels.
Iowa has two major cellulosic plants under construction that will use corn plant leaves, stalks and cobs to produce ethanol.
Project Liberty, a plant in Emmetsburg built by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based ethanol-maker POET and biotechnology company Royal DSM. The $250 million... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2014
Green Fuel is setting up an ethanol project in Zambia, which will see the company build a $500-million facility.
The biodiesel processor supplier entered into a partnership with the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) resulting in the creation of a company called Zimbabwe Bio-Energy in 2008.
It is this company that will implement the ethanol project.
The move comes after... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2014
As demand coming from the US slows, biofuels growth in the 2013-18 period will be modest compared to the 2008-13 period, says the Freedonia Group report.
Asia, the Africa/Mideast region and Central and South America will drive global biofuels demand to 115 million tonnes in 2018, up 18.7 million tonnes from 2013 figures, reports the Freedonia Group's new study, 'World... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2014
Renewable energy specialist Summit Group will construct a corn ethanol production facility in Brazil.
The Iowa-based Summit Group will develop a $140 million (€107 million) plant near Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso.Summit Group will use ICM's technology to power its 50 million gallon per year Brazilian ethanol plant.
Initial work on the plant will begin within... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2014
Lurgi, a member of the Air Liquide group of companies, has completed construction and start-up of an ethanol facility for Calgren Renewable Fuels.
The Calgren plant is currently the only ethanol plant operating in the US state of California.
Calgren and Lurgi worked together to design a plant that optimises the plant's energy efficiency, while producing value added co-products.
The... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 29, 2014
Biofuels technology providers ICM has commissioned and started production at a dry-mill corn ethanol plant in Cordoba, Argentina.
The plant excelled the initial production capacity of 400 cubic metres per day during the testing period.
The facility completed construction and installation in February 2014.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 27, 2014
Valero Renewable Fuels Company, international transportation fuels manufacturer, has restarted its recently purchased Mount Vernon ethanol plant.
The Mount Vernon plant is the 11th corn ethanol plant in Valero Renewables' system and its second in Indiana.
With an annual production capacity of 110 million gallons, the plant uses Delta-T technology that is similarly used... [Read More]
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