Bioethanol News

Vireol Bio Energy has ceased production at its 62 million gpy ethanol plant in Hopewell, Virginia, US after the 48% plummet in crude oil prices in the past year dragged gasoline prices down with it and placed a cap on ethanol. US Federal Standards require petrol producers to blend their final product with 10% ethanol. EPA’s proposal earlier this year to reduce ethanol consumption…
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Poplars may soon be harvested as a new source of biofuels in the US Pacific Northwest. The Advanced Hardwood Biofuels (AHB) Northwest Project is hoping to build the world's first biorefinery for trees. Other trees often grown for harvest, such as Douglas fir and red cedar take 50 years to grow, while poplar will typically ready for harvest in just 3 years. Tree farmer Joe Novak got the idea to…
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Strong hydrous ethanol prices in the southeast Brazilian market have led to a higher parity against gasoline for the first time in six months, the latest data from Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) shows. According to the data, the southeast region hydrous ethanol prices averaged 61.5% of the price of gasoline, up from 61.3% in the previous week. The fuel's price parity against…
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The first commercial-scale UK seaweed farm is scheduled to be scheduled in Argyll off the coast of Scotland in late summer 2015. The new facility, planned by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, will be run as a demonstration project that will help shape the UK’s fledling seaweed cultivation sector. Seven native seaweed varieties will be planted at…
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Brazilian biofuel company Gratt Industria de Maquinas has entered negotiations to build an experimental plant to produce ethanol from sweet potato crops. Gratt has held meetings with local regulators in the state of Roraima and says production could start within a year if regulatory approval is granted. The plant is projected to produce approximately 5,000 litres of ethanol for use in biofuels…
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SJC Bioenergia, a joint venture between Cargill and Group USJ, has purchased equipment Fluid Quip Process Technologies to integrate corn ethanol production at its sugarcane ethanol facility located in Quirinopolis, Brazil. SJC Bioenergia will utilise FQPT's SGT milling, BOS front-end corn oil, Fiber Separation, and MSC Protein Recovery technologies. The combined patented and patent-pending…
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The Philippines' National Bioethanol Board (NBB) says the future of the bioethanol industry in the country looks promising, as local and foreign direct investments in the sector have grown from $206 million in 2012 to $386 million in 2015. Investments are projected to double to $770 million in 2016. ‘When the policy guidelines on the utilization of locally-produced bioethanol was…
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Ethanol producer Poet has made a positive impact on the US economy, the company’s first published economic impact study suggests. The study, published yesterday, reports Poet has generated a total of $13.5 billion (appr. €12bln) in sales for US businesses, added $5.4 billion in national gross domestic product, supported an estimated 39,978 full time jobs, and contributed $3.1 billion…
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Carbon recycling company LanzaTech has entered into a letter of intent with steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, and Primetals Technologies, a technology and service provider to the iron and steel industry, for the construction of Europe's first-ever commercial scale production facility to produce bioethanol from waste gases generated during the steelmaking process. The resulting bioethanol…
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The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting biofuel friendly policies internationally, has welcomed the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) as its newest member. 'Brazil is truly a trailblazer in the global biofuels industry, not only as one of the world's largest producers of biofuels, but one of the first,' says Bliss Baker,…
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EU Ministers have officially approved new rules to address indirect land use change (ILUC) impacts associated with biofuels. According to the European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePURE), these new rules – which have been discussed by the EU institutions for three years – must now be transposed and implemented quickly to ensure Europe meets its climate and energy targets for…
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DuPont and Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry (NTL) have announced a licensing agreement to begin the development of China's largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant, located in Siping City, Jilin Province, China. The agreement allows NTL to license DuPont's cellulosic ethanol technology and use DuPont Accellerase enzymes, to produce renewable biofuel from the leftover biomass on the…
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Blume Distillation, a biorefinery systems provider for bioethanol production, has announced the sale of its first Africa-based biorefinery. The Blume biorefinery system has been purchased by Numbitrax, based in Touwsriver, Western Cape, South Africa, which has completed a purchase agreement and fund transfer. The purchase represents an investment worth several million euros for Numbitrax, which…
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched Iogen Energy's cellulosic ethanol technology at the official opening of Raizen's newly expanded Costa Pinto sugar cane mill in Piracicaba, Brazil. Iogen, a cellulosic biofuel technology developer, and Raizen, one of the world's largest producers of sugarcane ethanol, completed construction of the $105 million (appr. €95 million) advanced biofuel…
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