Nov 11, 2020
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Bioethanol News
Nov 11, 2020
Repsol has selected Axens Vegan technology for its first production plant for advanced biofuels in Spain.
The new plant, at its Cartagena refinery, will be capable of producing 250,000 TPA of biodiesel, biojet, bionaphtha and biopropane.
Axens’s expertise lies in hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) and its commitment to power sustainability in transport.
Its technology... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 10, 2020
The biofuels industry has been strongly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Global transport biofuel production for this year was expected to be 144 billion litres, or 2,480 thousand barrels per day (kb/d) – an 11.6% drop from 2019’s record output.
The IEA said this was the first reduction in annual... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 10, 2020
Demand for soy diesel could quadruple in Europe because of the EU’s biofuels policy, a new independent study has found.
According to the Transport & Environment (T&E) campaign group, soy cultivation was a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon and other ecosystems in Latin America and biofuel made from soy was twice as harmful to the climate as fossil diesel.
The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 9, 2020
Green Fuels has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aris Bioenergy committing the two companies to a biodiesel refining joint venture in India.
Under the agreement, the world’s leading distributed-scale biodiesel and advanced biofuels company and Aris have formed a company that will leverage Aris’s experience in used cooking oil collection in the Mumbai metropolitan... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 9, 2020
Growth Energy has congratulated Joe Biden on his presidential election victory.
The organisation that represents producers and supporters of ethanol released a statement on behalf of its CEO Emily Skor following the news that Donald Trump had been defeated.
She said: “Growth Energy extends its congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory.
“President-elect... [Read More]
Features
Nov 6, 2020
The reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as the efficient utilisation of carbon dioxide (CO2) represents one of the major global challenges today.
This is especially relevant for the combustion of fossil fuels. However, in the field of biogenic resources such as starch for ethanol production or biogas used for biomethane or synthetic natural gas (SNG),... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 6, 2020
Japan Airlines (JAL) will use biofuels made from general rubbish in about two years’ time as part of its efforts to cut carbon emissions.
The airline plans to refuel its aircraft in San Francisco as they fly routes between the US and Japan.
It will use recycled aviation fuel produced by US company Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. JAL invested around 900 million yen (€7.3... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 5, 2020
BP has pledged to become net emissions neutral by 2050.
The energy giant, one of the biggest in the world, said in a statement recently it aimed to reach net zero emissions “by 2050 or sooner” and would push to get the world net neutral over the same time scale.
The company has pledged to lobby for carbon taxes around the world and said it would launch a new team... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 5, 2020
Honeywell UOP has revealed that the Diamond Green Diesel facility will more than double its annual production of renewable diesel.
The company said that the facility in Norco, Louisiana, will see the completion of a second Ecofining process unit with a capacity of 30,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp and Darling Ingredients... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 4, 2020
Annual US biodiesel production capacity decreased by 2%, or 49 million gallons, between January last year and the start of this year, according to the latest figures.
At the start of this year, biodiesel production capacity in the US totalled 2.5 billion gallons per year, or 164,000 barrels per day, according to the US. Energy Information Administration’s annual US... [Read More]
Features
Nov 4, 2020
Increased investment interest is on the horizon for companies working in the renewable energy sector.
One of these long-term investment opportunities that is timely and tangible is in fuel initiatives.
One very visible growth aspect of this enormous opportunity lies within international airline flights, where regulatory moves are forcing airlines to comply with newly... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 4, 2020
The European Commission’s decision to introduce surveillance measures on imports of renewable ethanol from third countries is an important step towards preventing a surge in imports to the EU renewable ethanol industry, according to ePURE.
The decision, taken at the initiative of France and supported by an overwhelming majority of member states, follows an action from... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Nov 3, 2020
Neste has agreed to acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan's refinery located in Rotterdam for €258 million.
The Netherlands refinery is located next to Neste’s existing biorefinery and it consists of a pretreatment facility, tank farm, jetties and has a pipeline connection to the producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel’s site.
The transition will be... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 3, 2020
BP will stop fuel production at its Kwinana Refinery and is exploring options including turning it into a clean energy hub that could produce and store low carbon fuels.
The site in Western Australia could be used to store sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel.
BP said that regional oversupply, along with sustained low refining margins, have resulted in the... [Read More]
Features
Nov 2, 2020
Between November 2015 and June 2019 a market driven study focused on gasoline fuels having midrange ethanol concentrations.
It was performed under the EU Horizon 2020 funding scheme Engine tests with new types of biofuels and development of biofuel standards.
NEN, the Netherlands Standardisation Body, studied the overall sensitivity of future (Euro 6c technology)... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 2, 2020
Clariant has announced continuing operations sales of CHF $2.838 billion (€2.62 billion) in the first nine months of 2020 - compared to CHF $3.272 billion (€2.99 billion) in the first nine months of last year.
This corresponded to a decrease of 6% in local currency due to lower demand and 13% in Swiss francs attributable to unfavourable currency developments.
As... [Read More]
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