Bioethanol News

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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China New Energy has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Sunbird Bioenergy Africa for the development of two biorefineries, one each in Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Memorandum of Undestanding (MOU) was signed at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 6th Ministerial Conference and Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Under the terms of the MOU, China New Energy (CNE) will be…
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