Nov 13, 2013
Neste Oil commits to aviation biofuels initiative in Netherlands
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Nov 11, 2013
Brazil-based construction business Odebrecht is believed to be planning to separate the cogeneration from its sugar and ethanol operations to create a new bioelectricity company.Odebrecht currently produces 816MW of electricity by burning the sugarcane bagasse left over from its production of sugar, but it is believed the 2013/14 harvest will be able to generate about... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2013
Mewah International, a palm oil refining business in Malaysia, is set to acquire a biodiesel plant from alternative fuel processing company Gomedic.
The deal is reported to be in the region of $13 million (£9.7 million) and includes over 25,000 m3 of land. The purchase will be completed in the first quarter of 2014.
Mewah believes the plant is ‘strategically... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2013
An initiative for the development of sustainable jet fuels has been announced, bringing together key players in the Nordic aviation sector.
The Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation (NISA) is made up of airports, airlines and their industry federations, and aviation authorities. Airbus and Boeing have been named as supporters of the initiative, as well as... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2013
GE Aviation (GE) has announced it has signed an agreement to buy cellulosic biofuel to broaden its fuel sources for jet engine testing.
As of 2016, the Washington DC-based D'Arcinoff Group will supply at least 500,000 gallons of the fuel annually for GE's main testing facility in Ohio.
The 10-year agreement contains options for GE to order up to 10 million... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2013
Tank Storage Asia, taking place on 10 and 11 December 2013 at Singapore Expo, has secured its best ever conference line up. Over 20 leading authorities in the Asian bulk liquid storage sector will deliver sessions on the critical issues spanning the whole region - from the Middle East to China and New Zealand.
On the first day of the Tank Storage Asia conference, Nurul... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded nearly $10 million (€7.3 million) to a consortium, led by Colorado State University (CSU), to study the challenges limiting the use of insect-killed trees as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy and renewable fuels.
CSU researchers, together with other scientists from universities, government and private industry... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
The waste-to-biofuels plant to be built in Sofia, Bulgaria is now scheduled to begin construction in early 2014.
Plans are reportedly to be drawn up by Greek company Aktor-Helektor, which won the construction tender in April, in December as final contracts are due to be signed off this month.
It is hoped the plant will treat over three quarters of the capital’s waste... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
A grant has been awarded by the Western Australian government to help expand a renewable fuels programme.
The Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation (AAC) will put the AU$25,000 (€17,600) into its AshOil programme, which uses used cooking oil to produce about 15,000 litres of biodiesel each week.
It is believed AAC currently supplies mining company Rio Tinto with 50,000... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Corn prices in the US are trading near the lowest level in over three years, with several reports believing this is because farmers have accelerated harvesting of a potential record crop.
The US Department of Agriculture is believed to confirm its forecast increase for corn in early November, with country-wide corn production reportedly set to rise by 28% to a record 13.8... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Canada-based ethanol producing company Energentium is close to entering full production at its new plant in Ontario.
The company is due to start recycling soft drink and beer waste into ethanol at the 15 million litres a year facility before the end of 2013. The plant, which uses a reverse osmosis process, can also handle other waste feedstocks such as fruit, jams, sweets... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Multi-national company Cargill has begun operating its corn wet mill ethanol plant in Iowa, US.
It purchased the idled facility from global ingredients supplier Tate and Lyle back in 2011. The plant, according to Cargill, will provide the base load corn grind for the campus and will eventually support additional business growth in the future.
‘When full production... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
The Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science and Technology joint venture has earned the Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterial's sustainability certification for a facility which converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels.
RSB claims the facility is the first RSB-certified biofuel plant in China and also the first of its kind anywhere to receive certification... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
Sequential Pacific Biodiesel (SPB), a commercial biodiesel producer in the US, has added two new suppliers of feedstock to its roster this autumn.
Woodland Park Zoo and Husky Stadium, home of the Washington Huskies, have become cooking oil recycling customers and both join a list of others which, last year alone, helped SPB recycle enough oil from Washington to offset... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
The 5,000 tonnes of waste generated in the city of Chennai, India, per day has the potential to be converted to 120 million litres of aviation fuel and 40.5 million litres of diesel per year.
An expert told newspaper The New Indian Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process - a technology developed by NASA - the waste could be generated into wealth.
Vinod... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2013
It has been reported auto manufacturer MAN Latin America has completed tests on diesel made from sugarcane.
The company is believed to have performed over 500 hours of testing on Euro 5 engines within four Volkswagen Constellation trucks and another two Volkswagen model 24280 vehicles. All six ran on 100% sugarcane diesel throughout the month of June in Rio De Janeiro,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2013
An ethanol biorefinery in Iowa, US is offering retailers grants to install new fuel pumps to dispense a higher blends of ethanol than the current E10 available at many petrol stations.
The biorefinery is offering the $15,000 to five willing retailers which agree to install the blender pumps, capping the total project cost at $75,000.
'We wanted to come up with a programme... [Read More]
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