Sep 25, 2014
Duo to build biorefinery factory in Malaysia
Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels will supply biofuel to Southwest Airlines and to the military starting in 2016.
The airline has agreed to buy three million gallons of low-carbon jet fuel per year from advanced renewable provider Red Rock Biofuels. The fuel will be manufactured at a plant, soon to be constructed, in Lakeview, Oregon, US.
The $200 million plant will convert... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 24, 2014
A stolen tanker crashed and leaked ethanol on Tuesday 24th September, in Autauga County, Alabama, US.
The driver, who stole the tanker truck from Florida Rock and Tank Lines in Montgomery, Alabama, US, has now been identified.
Shortly after 11 am, crews had started transferring ethanol to another tanker, after containing the leak.
There were no reported injuries.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 24, 2014
A fire has broken out at Abengoa Bioenergy's ethanol plant in Madison, Illinois, US.
At approximately 9.45am on Tuesday 24th September, a fire broke out in a corn silo following an electrical shortage.
Despite firefighters spending four hours containing the fire, there was no major damage.
No one was injured.... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 24, 2014
The EPA's failure to finalise the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules will create an increase in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) that is equal to placing 4.4 million additional cars on US roads.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has issued a white paper, 'Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from proposed changes to the renewable fuel standard through 2022',... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 23, 2014
SPA Renewables, an emerging company that specialises in the collection and processing of Used Cooking Oil into biodiesel, is installing an 8,000 tonnes per year biodiesel plant in Corinth, Greece.
IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company, which provides fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has signed a contract with SPA Renewables to supply the plant.
The... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 22, 2014
On 23 September, Finnair used sustainable biofuel to operate its Airbus A330 flight from Helsinki to New York.
SkyNRG Nordic, a joint venture between SkyNRG and Statoil Aviation, provided the biofuel mixture, which was partly manufactured from cooking oil recycled from restaurants.
At present, aviation biofuels costs more than double the price of conventionally produced... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 22, 2014
Sales of commercial and passenger vehicles, particularly flex-fuel vehicles that allow end users to choose customised biofuel-fossil fuel blends have increased.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the Global Automotive Biofuels Market, has found that the market generated revenues of $94.61 billion (€73.63 billion) in 2013 and estimates this... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 19, 2014
Swiss Jatropower, a developer of Jatropha curcas seeds and associated agronomic technologies, has acquired a large majority of Quinvita’s assets.
Quinvita grew these activities over a period of seven years through their breeding programme and agronomic evaluations and experiments in several Asian, African and Latin American countries and scientific collaboration... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 19, 2014
The European renewable ethanol association, ePURE, has appointed Robert Wright as its new secretary general. Wright will start this position immediately.
Wright has over 20 years' experience working in European Union public policy and public affairs and has previously worked for the EU Commission and in the energy and high technology sectors.
'I am delighted to be joining... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 18, 2014
A new ethanol plant may be built in Onida, Iowa, US.
Plans started earlier this year for a facility that is capable of producing 70 million gallons per year of ethanol and 200 tonnes of distiller’s grain.
‘What ethanol has done for agriculture is help balance supply and demand,’ says Walt Wendland, who, along with Chris Schwarck, has been involved in... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 18, 2014
Germany's biofuel consumption was 2.9 million tonnes in the year to October, a drop of 8.9% compared with the first 10 months in 2012, reports the country's economics agency BAFA.
Despite a 0.5% increase in total road fuel consumption, bringing the total to 43.75 million tonnes and blending rates dropping for all biofuel types, the overall consumption still fell.
There... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 17, 2014
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex to market cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30 million gallon plant in Nevada, Iowa.
Once completed, the facility will be the largest cellulosic ethanol plant in the world.
The Nevada biorefinery will use all parts of the corn stover – the stalks, leaves and cobs.
'We are excited to work with an industry... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 17, 2014
Renewable energy technology provider INEOS Bio is restarting its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida after contamination forced it to decrease production considerably.
The company has upgraded the facility's technology and is also finishing the installation of equipment to remove impurities from one of the plant's process streams. As a result, this contamination has... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2014
Swedish Taurus Energy has partnered with France-based CIMV, and sent a proposal to the EU Commission detailing the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of ethanol from biomass.
The plan is for the demonstration plant will be built in France. Taurus Energy will be responsible for the yeast-based fermentation step in the process and the demonstration... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 16, 2014
The Lufthansa Group is operating its LH 190 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin Tegel using a 10% blend of the new biofuel component farnesane.
This is the first scheduled flight in Europe to run on this sugar-based bio-kerosene fuel mix.
A rig test at Lufthansa Technik's facility in Hamburg last year, as part of the EU's 'Blending Study' project preceded Lufthansa's... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 15, 2014
Buffalo Lake Advanced Biofuels has restarted its Minnesota, US plant.
Repairs and upgrades have been installed and tested on the plant since June.
The 18 MMgy plant was originally idled in 2009. It was then purchased by Purified Renewable Energy and run briefly in 2012. The company then filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and the facility was bought by West Ventures, one of the... [Read More]
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