Bioethanol News

New records were set in 2015 for US ethanol production and blending, with more than 14 billion gallons of ethanol produced, says the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). According to the EIA data, US ethanol producers churned out 14.81 billion gallons of ethanol in 2015, while refiners and blenders integrated an unprecedented 13.69 billion gallons into the US petrol…
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Florida-based biofuel developer Benchmark Renewable Energy (BRE) is planning to develop a large-scale bioethanol operation in Jamaica. According to BRE, once completed the plant will have a production capacity of 10 million gpy of ethanol, with an additional 3MW of electricity produced for the local grid. The required investment for the plant is expected to be approximately $95 million…
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Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa Bioenergy has secured an emergency bankruptcy loan that will allow the company to operate and pay wages while it attempts to reorganise. According to a Reuters report, the company has received a $7 million loan to pay bills while it attempts to restructure its operation after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. The company specialises in the…
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South Korea's TN Energy has entered into an agreement with Lao State Fuel to set up a joint venture (JV) to produce Power Gasoline-branded bioethanol fuel. The JV, to be called Lao K-tech, will be established later this year and it will be located at Dongphosy village in Hadxaifong district, Vientiane, Laos. In the first year, the companies will work together to survey areas for growing…
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Godavari Biorefineries, an Indian ethanol producer, has commissioned its expanded facility for dehydrated ethanol manufacturing at Sameerwadi in Karnataka. With the expansion, the company now has the capacity to produce 50 million litres per year of fuel grade ethanol, up from 15 million litres. The expansion of the fully automated plant using molecular sieve dehydration technology was completed…
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Australia's New South Wales state has introduced a bill into its parliament to extend an ethanol mandate across the region so that retailers sell E10 (petrol blended with up to 10% ethanol) for the first time. Under the Biofuels Amendment Bill 2016, retailers must also provide sales reports on the volumes of ethanol sold. Speaking about the Bill, NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation,…
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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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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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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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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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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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Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals producer, and Werner & Mertz (W&M), the producer of Frosch cleaning products, has launched a project which expands the possible applications of bioethanol. Clariant’s sunliquid cellulosic ethanol – made from agricultural residues such as straw – will be processed into detergents, cleansers and cleaning agents at W&M’s…
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