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For all of our subscribers out there, the September/October issue of Biofuels International magazine will soon arrive at your desks. This issue is full to the brim with interviews and technical articles from those in the know, including Boeing, Airbus, Honeywell, Butamax, Novozymes and Incbio, to name just a few.
Asia has been a hive of activity in 2014 and we have got it covered by delving into…
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Valero Renewable Fuels Company, international transportation fuels manufacturer, has restarted its recently purchased Mount Vernon ethanol plant.
The Mount Vernon plant is the 11th corn ethanol plant in Valero Renewables' system and its second in Indiana.
With an annual production capacity of 110 million gallons, the plant uses Delta-T technology that is similarly used at Valero Renewables'…
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Algae Systems has finished constructing its biofuel production demonstration project in Daphne, Alabama.
The company uses a process that combines wastewater with algae to cultivate the world's first energy-producing wastewater treatment process, using carbon-negative technologies to produce biofuels.
'This is the first demonstration of producing clean water and biofuel from wastewater and algae.…
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Indonesia Sekawan Intipratama, a company predominantly involved in the coal mining industry, plans to invest $239 million (€181 million) in an ethanol plant in East Kalimantan province in 2015.
Swiss-based ProCone will provide technology for the facility, which aims to produce 60,000 metric tonne per year of ethanol, using coal as its feedstock.
The plant is expected to reach completion in…
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Colorado State University (CSU) researches Camelina sativa, a feedstock that could be used to power vehicles.
CSU scientists are conducting a three-year study on Camelina sativa to study its potential as an economically viable and environmentally sustainable biofuels crop.
In July, the research team led by CSU agriculture professor John McKay was presented with a $1.5 million (€1.1 million)…
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The White House is evaluating a mandate sent by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), outlining planned quotas for renewable fuels.
These are confidential at present, as the Office of Management and Budget carries out a final interagency review, offering biofuels producers, refiners and gives refiners, biofuel producers and other shareholders a final chance to comment on the mandates.
Agency…
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National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia will use avtur, a type of aviation turbine fuel, with biofuel to help reduce its carbon emissions.
Starting in 2016, the airline will use approximately 1.8 billion litres per year of avtur to operate at its aircraft. As a result, from 2016, Garuda's jet fuel consumption is expected to reach 2 billion litres per year.
The state-owned carrier is currently…
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The US Navy and the Chilean Navy will continue their shared research on advanced alternative fuels for power surface vessels and navy aircraft.
After a four-year mutual agreement, this latest agreement enables both countries to reduce their dependence of imported fuels, and increase their energy security.
By 2020, the US Navy aims to have 50% of its operations fuelled by alternative energy…
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Tank Storage Asia has announced that there will be a specialist area for Singapore based companies at this year's show, called the Singapore Pavilion. The leading event for the Asian tank storage industry takes place on 24-25 September at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
IE Singapore has officially approved the International Marketing Activities Programme (iMAP) grant for Tank Storage Asia. These…
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In the US Energy Information Administration's August issue of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, ethanol production has averaged approximately 940,000 barrels per day over the past three months.
This level is amongst the highest monthly levels ever recorded. The highest weekly level ever recorded was 972,000 barrels per day during the week ending June 13. Ethanol production averaged approximately…
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ASTM International standard D7566, Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesised Hydrocarbons now includes renewable synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel.
This recently approved revision adds the synthesised iso-paraffinic fuel to the ASTM D7566 annex, which will facilitate the use of the fuels in all international airlines. This standard ensures biobased fuel quality that is on par,…
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Boeing, Airbus and Embraer have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of drop-in aviation biofuels.
Together, the team hopes to encourage governments and legislators, biofuel producers, and airlines to pursue the availability of sustainable new jet fuel sources to help reduce the aviation industry's carbon footprint.
The aviation industry aims for neutral…
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Thailand's military government is studying a plan to use rotten rice from state stocks to produce ethanol.
The government is estimated to have lost as much as 400 billion baht (€9.2 billion) in buying and storing 18 million tonnes of rice from farmers at higher-than-market prices in the programme that lasted from October 2011 to February 2014.
'We just launched the idea to ethanol producers…
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All British Airways planes at London's City Airport should be fuelled with rubbish. New industrial plants will turn into liquid fuels organic scraps such as paper, food, and garden clippings.
The first among these is GreenSky London, currently under construction, which will be able to process some 500,000 tonnes of waste annually and convert it into approximately 60,000 tonnes of jet fuel.
The…
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North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) is investing in a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland.
The plant, which has a production capacity of 10 million litres per year of bioethanol, will be leased to oil and bioproduct traders North European Oil Trade Oy (NEOT).
St1 Biofuels Oy, which is responsible for design, permits and coordination and will be operating the…
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Renewable Energy Group (REG) plans to spend $15 million (€11.3 million) in the next 12 months on its Geismar facility.
The biofuels plant, which makes diesel from animal fat, will soon be able to use an increased variety of feedstocks.
Although the timescale is still unknown, REG's Geismar plant hasn't operated since October 2012.
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Salem-based Epic Aviation was among 11 oil and gas distribution companies to be awarded multimillion-dollar contracts this week by the Pentagon's Defence Logistics Agency.
Epic, who supplies almost 300 fuelling points to the commercial and military aviation industry, will receive up to $12,002,258 (€9 million) to supply military aircraft with aviation turbine fuel.
The US company has been…
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