Bioethanol News

The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA), a US-based renewable fuels trade body, has recognised Absolute Energy, an ethanol production facility in St. Ansgar, Iowa, for producing its one billionth gallon of cleaner-burning, homegrown ethanol this month. “Congratulations to Absolute Energy for reaching this incredible milestone,” said IRFA director Monte Shaw. “The…
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Green Plains, a Nebraska, US-based ethanol producer, has completed the previously announced acquisition of three ethanol plants for approximately $237 million in cash from Abengoa Bioenergy. The company immediately sold the ethanol storage assets to Green Plains Partners for $90 million. All three plants - located in Madison, Illinois; Mount Vernon, Indiana; and York, Nebraska – are…
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The share of ethanol in the US petrol market rose to 10.2% last week, according to a report published by the US Energy Information Association (EIA) on Wednesday. The increase in market share breaches the so called blend wall at 10%, over which the biofuels industry and petroleum producers have wrestled for several years. The oil and petroleum industry claims that ethanol blends higher than 10%…
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A Nebraska, US, company has found a way to make dry cattle feed pellets from an ethanol by-product without adding any binding ingredients. Platte Valley Distillers told AP news agency it has secured the rights to a patented technique that will allow it to make feed pellets in Lexington that can be easily transported for possible export. Ethanol plants routinely sell distillers grain as a…
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Noble Group has taken full ownership of previously 50%-held subsidiary Noble Mansfield Renewable Energy for $2.47 million (€2.2m). Noble, a commodity trader, said that the acquisition was financed with internal resources, The Business Times reports. The book value and net tangible asset of Noble Mansfield was about S$3.3 million on 30 August, 2016, Noble said. Noble Mansfield is a…
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Industry experts have backed a report by the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) which suggests that the UK will miss its 2020 renewable energy targets. Despite progress in some areas of its renewables commitments, there is simply not enough being done, ECCC says in its new report titled 2020 renewable heat and transport targets. The UK has set plans to provide for 15%…
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A porous metal-organic framework sorbent could boost the efficiency of ethanol production from cellulosic biomass by trapping compounds that inhibit fermentation, according to a study from the University of California. Woody plants and grasses hold enormous supplies of cellulose, from which ethanol can be produced via fermentation of sugars extracted from the plant materials, Chemical and…
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US ethanol trade association Growth Energy is calling for higher ethanol blends to be introduced in the aftermath a petrol pipeline leak that has left the pumps dry on many stations. A 9 September leak in the Colonial pipeline, which supplies petrol to many states in the southeast and east coast of the US has resulted not only in petrol shortages, but also price spikes at the pump. The states of…
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Norwegian biorefinery operator Borregaard has decided to invest NOK 63 million (€6.8m) in a project including an upgrade of a bioethanol plant and a facility to capture and store biogas.  The project has been awarded a grant of NOK 18.9 million from Enova, a Norwegian government agency which promotes environmentally friendly restructuring of energy end-use, renewable energy production,…
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Roxol Bioenergy Corp., the bioethanol subsidiary of Roxas Holdings, has been allowed to reopen its bioethanol plant in Negros Occidental, Philippines, following its implementation of measures to mitigate emission of foul odour. The plant, located at Barangay Nagasi, La Carlota City, was shut down on 9 September, when a cease and desist order (CDO) was filed against Roxol. Roxas Holdings told the…
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Mexico has passed a regulation that approves the blending and sale of ethanol outside of its three major metropolitan areas. The Energy Regulatory Commission of Mexico (CRE) has published its recently-passed fuel regulation (NOM-016-CRE-2016) in the Mexican federal register, allowing for the blending and sale of up to 5.8% ethanol in the nation’s fuel supply outside of the three major…
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A Mexican environmental engineering student has developed a formula to create bioethanol from a water hyacinth plant and will see his project presented to the Nobel Prize laureates in Sweden in December. José Alberto Espejel, a student of environmental engineering at a La Salle University campus in Mexico City, first had the idea of working with water hyacinth, or Eichhornia crassipes,…
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