Sep 26, 2014
Fire at ADM’s Illinois ethanol plant
Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2014
GranBio Investimentos, a Brazilian biotechnology company, has started production at its cellulosic ethanol plant in Alagoas, Brazil.
The company invested $190 million (€149 million) in the facility, which is the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the southern hemisphere.
The Bioflex 1 plant has the capacity to produce 82 million litres per year of... [Read More]
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Sep 24, 2014
A stolen tanker crashed and leaked ethanol on Tuesday 24th September, in Autauga County, Alabama, US.
The driver, who stole the tanker truck from Florida Rock and Tank Lines in Montgomery, Alabama, US, has now been identified.
Shortly after 11 am, crews had started transferring ethanol to another tanker, after containing the leak.
There were no reported injuries.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 24, 2014
A fire has broken out at Abengoa Bioenergy's ethanol plant in Madison, Illinois, US.
At approximately 9.45am on Tuesday 24th September, a fire broke out in a corn silo following an electrical shortage.
Despite firefighters spending four hours containing the fire, there was no major damage.
No one was injured.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 22, 2014
Sales of commercial and passenger vehicles, particularly flex-fuel vehicles that allow end users to choose customised biofuel-fossil fuel blends have increased.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the Global Automotive Biofuels Market, has found that the market generated revenues of $94.61 billion (€73.63 billion) in 2013 and estimates this... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 18, 2014
A new ethanol plant may be built in Onida, Iowa, US.
Plans started earlier this year for a facility that is capable of producing 70 million gallons per year of ethanol and 200 tonnes of distiller’s grain.
‘What ethanol has done for agriculture is help balance supply and demand,’ says Walt Wendland, who, along with Chris Schwarck, has been involved in... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 18, 2014
Germany's biofuel consumption was 2.9 million tonnes in the year to October, a drop of 8.9% compared with the first 10 months in 2012, reports the country's economics agency BAFA.
Despite a 0.5% increase in total road fuel consumption, bringing the total to 43.75 million tonnes and blending rates dropping for all biofuel types, the overall consumption still fell.
There... [Read More]
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Sep 17, 2014
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex to market cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30 million gallon plant in Nevada, Iowa.
Once completed, the facility will be the largest cellulosic ethanol plant in the world.
The Nevada biorefinery will use all parts of the corn stover – the stalks, leaves and cobs.
'We are excited to work with an industry... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 17, 2014
Renewable energy technology provider INEOS Bio is restarting its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida after contamination forced it to decrease production considerably.
The company has upgraded the facility's technology and is also finishing the installation of equipment to remove impurities from one of the plant's process streams. As a result, this contamination has... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2014
Swedish Taurus Energy has partnered with France-based CIMV, and sent a proposal to the EU Commission detailing the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of ethanol from biomass.
The plan is for the demonstration plant will be built in France. Taurus Energy will be responsible for the yeast-based fermentation step in the process and the demonstration... [Read More]
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]
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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]
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