Bioethanol News

In India, the government of the state of Punjab  has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a consortium of Beta Renewables, Novozymes, and CVC India Infrastructure to set up a bioethanol refinery in the state. The INR9.5 billion (€131 million) facility is expected to begin operation in 2017, and it is projected to make Punjab the Indian state leader in the biorefinery…
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Green Plains and petrol retailer Murphy USA have signed a definitive agreement regarding the purchase by Green Plains of Murphy USA's ethanol production facility located in Hereford, Texas. Under the terms of the agreement, Green Plains will acquire Hereford Renewable Energy for approximately $93.8 million (€85 million), subject to customary closing adjustments. The transaction value…
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LT Group, owned by the tobacco and airline tycoon Lucio Tan, is set to expand its investment in the renewable energy sector with the opening of a new bioethanol facility in Lian, Philippines. The 30 million litre capacity plant will be a part of LT Group’s Absolut Distillers (ADI) project. The ceremony for the opening of the bioethanol facility is expected to be attended by…
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Joule, a US producer of liquid fuels from recycled CO2, has announced that its fuel grade Sunflow-E ethanol has been registered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for commercial use in E10 and E15 gasoline blends. Earlier this year Joule announced that Sunflow-E had successfully passed the tests for ASTM D4806 and DIN EN 15376 certifications, US and German bioethanol…
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Argentinian bioenergy company Compañía Bioenergética La Florida (CBLF) has inaugurated its new ethanol dehydration facility in the Tucumán province of Argentina. The facility – which CGLF says included several improvements over standard dehydration facilities regarding energy use, vapour releases, and water consumption – has a capacity to produce 500,000l…
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Belgian researchers believe the leavings of the giant panda may unlock secrets to more efficient biofuel production. A research team from Ghent University is the first to examine the potential of the micro-organisms in the pandas’ digestive track, which may lead to the development of new generations of biofuels. Pandas have a unique digestive system, as despite having the genetic make-up of…
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Alliance BioEnergy Plus (ABEP) has announced that its subsidiary Ek Laboratories in Longwood, Florida, US, has achieved 63% conversion of coastal hay into fermentable sugars at a commercial scale in less than 30 minutes. The process, developed under the direction of Dr. Richard Blair, Dr. Peter Cohen, and Dr. Zhilin Xie, uses ABEP’s licensed and patented mechanical/chemical cellulose…
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Platts, a global provider of energy and commodities information, has begun publishing price assessments for a key ethanol by-product increasingly used as animal feed in the US and globally. The new references are for dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) and reflect values for the Midwest, the key corn, wheat, and grains producing region in the US, and exportable values at the US Gulf…
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Malaysia is planning plans to limit Indonesian palm oil imports to curb rising domestic inventory. Malaysia's Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas says the country intends to control the import volume of palm oil from Indonesia instead of banning the product. ‘If we don't do anything now, it is expected that palm oil inventory…
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Swiss agribusiness Syngenta has reached agreements with 16 ethanol plants to use its bioengineered Enogen corn. Together, all ethanol plants using Enogen now have a combined production capacity of more than 1 billion gallons, and Syngenta is in discussions for further expansion. Enogen corn enzyme technology is currently the only biotech corn designed specifically to enhance…
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Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals company, expects the Volkswagen diesel engine emissions scandal to give a boost to biofuels. Hariolf Kottmann, CEO of Clariant, says the company is spending €30 million each year to expand it bioethanol-from-straw production capacity and expects its profits from the business to grow over the next four years. ‘And if in a few years we account for…
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DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Quad County Corn Processors (QCCP) have signed a multi-year contract to supply the enzymes that enable QCCP’s Cellerate process in the production of cellulosic biofuel from corn kernel fibre. In 2014, QCCP produced the US’ first cellulosic ethanol gallons and the world's first gallons from corn kernel fibre with a process developed by QCCP…
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Canadian farmers might one day grow sugar corn for a potentially huge alternative fuels market through a new project involving University of Guelph researchers. Along with scientists from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), and Western University, the Guelph researchers will study sugar corn varieties whose higher sucrose…
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The Nigerian Cassava Growers’ Association (NCGA) has partnered with the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), an international private infrastructure financier, to set up a bioethanol plant, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. National president of NCGA Segun Adewumi says the plant, which is to use cassava as feedstock, will also serve as a bioenergy and power generation plant…
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