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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 the backend whole stillage…
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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 are primarily used for…
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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 in the third quarter…
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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 which maximizes the…
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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 period last year.
The…
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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 could lead to a sale. ADM is…
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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 been struggling with a…
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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 required investment is…
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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 as a substitute for…
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A mothballed bioethanol plant in Kazakhstan is set to resume production by the end of 2016.
The Investment Fund of Kazakhstan is working to bring the Biokhim plant, located in the town of Tayinsha in the North Kazakhstan region, back online with the first stage scheduled for December 2016.
The plant will produce bioethanol for the Pavlodar oil refinery, with later deliveries scheduled for the…
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A New York ethanol producer has been fined $87,000 (€80,300) for illegally disposing of industrial waste from its production facility.
The fine stems from a 2013 investigation into illegal activities at Shelby, NY-based Western New York Energy (WNYE) by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) unit.
The investigation determined that WNYE and Hydro-Klean, a company…
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that the share of liquid biofuels consumed in road transport, in the UK, fell from 4.2% during the third quarter of 2014 to 3.3% during the third quarter of 2015.
DECC unveiled the statistics in its latest 'Energy Trends' publication.
Figures from DECC also showed that biodiesel consumption was 35% lower than the same quarter of…
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Oasis Group, an India-based technology, engineering and construction company, will build a wheat-based ethanol plant in Punjab.
The facility is worth around £51m (INR 500 crore), according to news agency Press Trust of India.
The ethanol will be producing wheat which is unfit for human consumption, the media outlet stated.
Currently, India relies mainly on sugar mills to produce its…
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A team of experts from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the University of Cambridge in the UK are embarking to research renewable energy and to develop biofuels for use in small machines like lawnmower.
The research project also attempts to discover the most cost effective and low-emission biofuel source for its purposes, such as jatropha or a mixed source.
According to Professor Dr.…
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Bioethanol and petrol blends lowered CO2 emissions from road traffic in Germany by around 1.2 million tonnes in the first three quarters of 2015, a new study says.
According to the findings of a study in German on the economic importance of the largest site of German bioethanol production in Saxony-Anhalt, every litre of bioethanol reduced greenhouse gas emission by 1.1kg.
‘This represents…
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