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Sustainable products company UPM and US cellulosic sugar producer Renmatix have signed a non-exclusive joint development agreement in the area of biochemicals.
Under its terms, both companies will further develop Renmatix’s water-based process to convert woody biomass into low-cost sugar intermediates for subsequent downstream processing into biochemicals.‘Access to second…
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Technip, a France-based project management and engineering company, has won a multi-million euro front end contract to build a second generation biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant in Finland.
The €5 million ($6.6 million) contract was awarded by Forest BtL and the facility will be built on Ajos island. It aims to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha via wood and…
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Renewable products business Amyris and fuel brand Total completed a new demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show using a technology that converts plant sugars into renewable jet fuel.
The Airbus A321 aircraft, powered by two Snecma CFM56 jet engines, flew from Toulouse to Paris on the fuel blend and represented the second flight from this project after an Embraer E195 jet flew a year…
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An enzyme which is found in leaf-cutter ant colonies could hold a key to unlocking biofuel production, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin, US.
The researchers’ interest piqued after observing the ants converting plant biomass into food for energy.
‘As leaf-cutter ants are prodigious consumers of plant biomass, we hypothesized that the microbes they cultivate in…
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According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah.
The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil providers come…
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US-based Oberon Fuels (OF), which has brought dimethyl ether (DME), a clean burning diesel alternative to market, has received a grant to produce fuel-grade DME at its facilities in California.
The $500,000 (€373,000) grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) will be used by OF to provide DME produced from biogas for supermarket brand Safeway’s North…
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The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is to open up its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers, in a move that it hopes will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector.
The decision, made unanimously by NBB's governing board, consolidates the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry together to create a stronger voice for…
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Two senior economists at the World Bank believe it is high oil prices which are the most important driver of the increase in global food prices.
The report, put together by John Baffes and Allen Dennis, also finds that, under a mandated ethanol/gasoline mixture, ethanol and maize prices would decline.
The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) backs this analysis as the European biofuels…
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UK biofuel supplier Gasrec will work with global heavy-duty truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks to help its clients cut haulage costs while reducing carbon emissions.
The two companies will co-operate commercially and technically to increase the availability and promote the use of gas vehicles in the UK. Gasrec states that, when substituted for diesel, bio-LNG can cut fuel costs and CO2 by around…
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Forest BtL Oy is developing a new biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant on Ajos Island, Finland.
The facility will utilise wood and by-products from the wood processing industry to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha.
The project is supported by the European Union NER300 funding programme for innovative renewable energy technologies.
The front-end engineering and design (FEED)…
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The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working to demonstrate that jet fuel can be manufactured economically and in large volumes from biomass materials such as switchgrass and has partnered with Cobalt Technology, the US Navy and Show Me Energy for the project.
The results of these tests will help decipher whether the process can be ramped up for commercial…
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Indonesia-based Waterland will receive its new green biodiesel plant in Bali later this month. It is scheduled to open in September.
The plant, which will produce biodiesel from camelina with the aid of enzymes and ethanol, is being developed and delivered by Dutch company FirmTec. Once operational the plant will make biodiesel to power generators for the production of electricity.
This novel…
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Finnish company UPM and US-based technology producer Renmatix have entered into a non-exclusive joint development agreement in the area of biochemicals.
Under terms of the agreement both companies will further develop Renmatix’s water-based Plantrose process to convert woody biomass into low-cost sugar intermediates for subsequent downstream processing.
The long-term goal of this…
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UK biofuel supplier Gasrec has announced that its next bio-liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) refuelling station will be built at Avonmouth, near Bristol.
The station will be built on land adjacent to three motorways and be capable of refuelling up to 700 vehicles a day.
‘This represents a further step toward our goal of developing a national bio-LNG refuelling network,’ says Gasrec…
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In an effort to reduce reliance on petroleum-based fuel in Jamaica its government is seeking billions of dollars for biofuels investment.
Phillip Paulwell , the minister of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, was quoted by local news sources as saying that a ‘biofuel energy source, if developed, could attract investments and create job opportunities’.
‘I think we are now on…
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