
Feb 8, 2021
New legislation aiming to incentivise SAF production in the US
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Feb 8, 2021
Velocys has signed an agreement with Toyo Engineering Corporation to start the development of their commercial projects to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other renewable fuels in Japan.
The agreement follows on from the successful work already conducted last year between the two at the biomass-to-jet-fuel demonstration facility in Japan.
This included... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2021
Biofuels firm Raízen has signed a commercial agreement to incorporate the assets of Biosev - a Brazilian subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Holding.
The deal includes nine production units strategically located in Brazil with a total installed sugarcane processing capacity of up to 32 million tonnes.
The agreement also includes power cogeneration, with an export capacity... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2021
A new report published by the Environmental Research Letters found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than petroleum - up from 39% done by previous modelling.
The report, led by David MacIntosh, Chief Science Officer of Environmental Health & Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health,... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2021
Brazil and Argentina are set to maintain their shares in the global soybean market this crop year.
Whereas Argentina is expected to harvest slightly fewer soybeans, Brazil is anticipated to bring in a larger crop.
Brazil, the US and Argentina are the largest soybean-producing countries worldwide.
Together, they produce more than 80% of the world's soybeans. India... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2021
Space startup company bluShift successfully launched its first rocket powered by biofuels on Sunday.
The fuel, which are intended to be used to propel small satellites into space, was employed in a single-stage prototype that can only carry up to 18 lbs of payload and is designed to achieve suborbital space.
Stardust's first launch carried three small payloads to an... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2021
POET has urged the new Biden administration to embrace E15.
The world’s largest biofuels producer, based in Sioux Falls in South Dakota, has also welcomed the new President’s leadership in making climate a top priority.
The company also has also urged the Senate to swiftly consider the nominations of Pete Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation, Michael Regan for... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2021
One of the world’s largest LPG distributors announced a new partnership with Ekobenz, a Polish technology specialist in catalytic conversion of bioethanol to bioLPG and biogasoline.
UGI International has secured the exclusive rights to Ekobenz’ supply of bioLPG, a renewable form of propane-butane produced from advanced bioethanol.
The primary raw material to produce... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2021
Clariant has signed a license agreement with a Chinese green energy company for its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology.
Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group, has been involved in the second generation biofuels business and research for almost a decade.
The plant operation will be performed by Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2021
Peru has dumped plans for a 15% duty on bioethanol products into the South American country.
The Peruvian National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) Tribunal announced that the US ethanol industry and the US government have won an appeal on a countervailing duty case brought against US ethanol in Peru.
This... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2021
Total has stepped up the deployment of E85 fuel within its service station network in France to meet the growing demand.
E85 refers to an ethanol fuel blend of 85% ethanol fuel and 15% gasoline or other hydrocarbon by volume.
Total said it has already doubled its distribution capacity from 270 service stations to more than 500.
At the turn of the year there were more... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2021
The Iowa biofuels industry has been “battered” but is “battling for a better future”.
This was the view expressed by Iowa Renewable Fuels Association executive director Monte Shaw who also emphasised the many opportunities to expand biofuels demand in the state, across the country and around the world.
Shaw touched on several federal and state battles biofuel... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2021
Rolls-Royce conducted the first tests of 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in a business jet engine.
This is part of the company’s ongoing ambition to play a leading role in enabling the sectors reach net zero carbon by 2050.
The tests on its latest business aviation engine in development, the Pearl 700, in Dahlewitz, Germany, came just weeks after unblended SAF... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2021
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor delivered the keynote address at Iowa Renewable Fuels Association’s virtual summit.
In her speech at the Annual Iowa Renewable Fuel event, Skor reviewed the successes and challenges faced by the ethanol industry over the last year and outlined the opportunities ahead for the biofuels industry to work with a new administration as a key... [Read More]
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Jan 29, 2021
The opportunities to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the global civil aviation sector were stressed a World Economic Forum (WEF) policy session on ‘Building a Path to Net-Zero Aviation’.
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu’s remarks were part of a series of exchanges with other participants including UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Dick Benschop,... [Read More]
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Jan 29, 2021
Berlin-based P1 Racing Fuels has been confirmed as the World Touring Car’s (WTCR) official fuel supplier by the FIA World Motor Sport Council after successfully developing a bespoke racing biofuel product.
The new biofuel formulation seeks to significantly reduce carbon footprint while never compromising on engine performance.
It will result in drivers being powered... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2021
A Redcar-based cleantech company has made a significant breakthrough of its proprietary REFNOVA technology.
Nova Pangaea Technologies has proven a new process route that significantly reduces the customer’s capital expenditure and delivers economic returns.
The new technology suite offers up to six configurations, which focus on the output products such as biochar... [Read More]