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Dubai-based Neutral Fuels has become the first company to successfully use butter, cream, and ghee waste as a feedstock for creating commercial biofuel.
The new fuel is of the same quality as the vegetable oil-derived biofuel that Neutral Fuels produces and which has fuelled McDonald's UAE's logistics fleet for almost seven million kilometres over the past four years.
Karl W Feilder, chairman and…
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Alliance BioEnergy Plus has submitted an offer to purchase an over 145 acre ethanol plant previously owned by Ineos New Planet Bioenergy in Florida.
If successful, Alliance will begin to retrofit the front end of the facility, located in Vero Beach, immediately with its patented CTS process and will quickly be converting local yard waste into cellulosic ethanol through an option agreement with…
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President Donald Trump has reiterated his support for American ethanol in a letter he sent to attendees of the National Ethanol Conference in San Diego, US.
President Trump sent the letter to the conference yesterday (21 February) as he was unable to attend. Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) President and CEO Bob Dinneen read the letter aloud.
“Rest assured that your president and this…
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Iowa ethanol and biodiesel producers both set production records in 2016, processing a record amount of Iowa corn, soybean oil, animal fats and other feedstocks into clean-burning renewable fuels, according to a new report.
As that economic activity flowed throughout Iowa, it left a significant impact, according to an economic impact study commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association…
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Zero-cost materials such as water hyacinth and grass have the potential can yield a high percentage of biofuel, Indian researchers have discovered.
Research conducted by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITK) indicates that pore-scale phenomena can be used to increase the yield of fermentable sugars and bioethanol from hemicellulose.
Water hyacinth, a free-floating and…
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The development of large-scale energy projects, including the Site C hydroelectric dam, threatens to drive bioenergy and biofuel production away from British Columbia (B.C.), experts warn.
Jack Saddler, a researcher at the University of B.C. and part of a project to convert forest residues to biojet fuel, told CBC News that big energy projects could drive out innovation in the industry.
The Site…
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Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels will build an on-site enzyme manufacturing (OSM) facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa, pending state and local approvals.
The facility will be integrated into the Project Liberty technology package, replicable in future facilities.
For Project Liberty, the OSM will directly pipe enzymes into the Liberty production process without requiring downstream processing, stabilizers and…
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Creditors of Abengoa Bioenergy US Holding, a unit of Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa, have reached an agreement over the distribution of asset sale proceeds, removing a key hurdle for the company to exit bankruptcy, according to Reuters
Abengoa Bioenergy was one of dozens of US Abengoa subsidiaries that filed for US bankruptcy protection last year while the Seville-based parent worked…
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Growth Energy, a trade body for US ethanol producers, has welcomed the confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In response to Pruitt’s confirmation, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, issued the following statement: “We congratulate Pruitt on his confirmation as Administrator of the EPA. We look forward to…
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Pacific Ethanol, a US renewable fuels producer, and Edeniq, a biorefining and cellulosic technology company, have announced that they have entered into a technology licensing and purchase agreement to enable the production of cellulosic ethanol at Pacific Ethanol’s Madera, California plant using Edeniq’s Pathway and Cellunator technologies.
The Madera plant has a total annual…
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US ethanol company ACE Ethanol has received a pilot facility which uses patented cellulosic ethanol technology from D3MAX.
The pilot facility will be installed at ACE Ethanol’s Wisconsin plant in late February. Installation is expected to be complete by mid-March with start-up and testing at the facility taking place over the ensuing two months. “We are very excited to take this next…
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Argentina has the potential double its current 12% ethanol blending mandate in the next two to three years, according to a government official.
Nestor Roulet, secretary of added value at the Argentinian Ministry of Agriculture, told Reuters that the South American country’s annual ethanol consumption could rise to 2 million m3, which could help Argentina reduce its energy deficit.
"The…
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Overall global biofuel output is projected to reach 67 billion gallons per year (BGY) by 2022, from the 59 billion gallons achieved in 2016.
According to a fresh market report by Lux Research, new biofuel technology is “finally” starting to push aside traditional biofuels, such as first-generation biodiesel.
New facilities based on non-food feedstocks and producing novel fuels account…
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The Rwandan government is abandoning a $35 million (€33m) biodiesel pilot project, according to a report in The East African.
Officials of the National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA) told Rwanda Today that the government decided to ditch the project after realising it was not viable.
NIRDA director-general Joseph Mungarurire cites difficulty in finding raw…
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US advanced biofuels company has announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with HCS Holding (HCS) to supply isooctane under a five-year offtake agreement.
HCS is a manufacturer of specialty products and solutions in the hydrocarbons sector, operating under the brands Haltermann Carless, ETS Racing Fuels and EOS. HCS is owned by HIG Capital. Haltermann Carless,…
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German bioethanol producer CropEnergies has increased its forecast for the current financial year 2016/17.
In a statement, the company said that the main reasons for the better earnings were “spot prices for bioethanol which continue to be significantly higher than the previously expected forward prices as well as the high capacity utilisations in all four production plants”.
With…
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