Oct 7, 2013
New ASTM standard for butanol use in engines
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Oct 4, 2013
The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have announced a move to a B10 biodiesel mandate after certain conditions were met.
All departments are required to determine whether four statutory conditions had been met before increasing the minimum biodiesel content mandate to B10, which was originally due in 2012, before... [Read More]
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Oct 4, 2013
BlueFire Renewables, a renewable fuels company, is to integrate a wood pellet production plant with its ethanol facility in Mississippi, US.
The reconfigured design will see a 400,000 tonne per year wood pellet factory integrated with the company's existing 9 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Fulton.
The pellets will be sold under long-term contracts into the European... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2013
Alternative fuel company Primus Green Energy is to commission a 100,000 gallon a year natural gas to petrol pre-commercial demonstration plant at its New Jersey, US facility.
The demo plant will use Primus’ proprietary technology, a four reactor catalytic process which converts syngas derived from natural gas or other feedstocks to petrol, jet fuel, diesel or aromatic... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2013
Butamax Advanced Biofuels, a biobutanol technology company, and Highwater Ethanol, a first generation ethanol producer, have begun to retrofit Highwater's ethanol plant in Minnesota, US for the production of biobutanol.
The pair have entered into definitive agreements for license of Butamax's patented corn oil separation technology, and installation of system has already... [Read More]
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Oct 2, 2013
Hong Kong-based ASB Biodiesel is to start generating biodiesel at its processing plant in November.
Located at the Tseung Kwan O industrial estate and expected to start in November, ASB is excepting to produce around 100,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year. The plant, to reach that figure of B100 blends, is expecting to use 200,750 tonnes of grease trap waste as feedstock.
The... [Read More]
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Oct 2, 2013
Waste from dairy farms and beer breweries could provide the necessary ingredients to grow algae-based biofuels say the leaders of a project based in Vermont, US.
The US Department of Agriculture awarded the association, which includes the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), a $51,000 (€37,000) grant to research biofuels technology using algae... [Read More]
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Oct 1, 2013
The South African Department of Energy has stated a time from which fuel producers will have to start blending petrol and diesel with biofuels.
The date has been set exactly two years from 1 October and producers will be required to blend between 2 and 10% of bioethanol into petrol, and a minimum of 5% biodiesel in diesel.
A move of this kind is hoped, as with many other... [Read More]
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Oct 1, 2013
A new push for a bioethanol and sugar industry in Ireland recently had its first public fundraising event.
Beet Ireland, a group comprising of farmers and suppliers, launched its first public fundraiser for €6 million ($8.1 million) at the National Ploughing Championships in County Laois at the end of September.
The overall project is seen as the next step on the... [Read More]
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Oct 1, 2013
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in cooperation with Chemieanlangenbau Chemnitz, has produced renewable fuel at its Bioliq (biomass to liquid karlsruhe) pilot plant.
With the synthesis stage of the plant now operational, all stages of the Bioliq process (flash pyrolysis, high-pressure entrained-flow gasification and synthesis) are online and the pilot facility... [Read More]
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Sep 30, 2013
Singapore-based Concord Energy has signed an agreement with Cool Planet Energy Systems to establish a joint-venture in the Asia Pacific region.
The partnership will develop commercial production facilities for the conversion of non-food biomass into biofuels and soil enhancing biochar.
'We believe Cool Planet has developed a technology that will revolutionise the production... [Read More]
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Sep 30, 2013
The Ensus bioethanol plant in the UK has restarted production this month for a fourth time after completion of ‘essential maintenance work’.
Within a statement sent to Biofuels International, new owners CropEnergies claims: ‘Essential maintenance work taking place since July is now complete and market conditions have improved meaning the process of getting... [Read More]
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Sep 27, 2013
UK coach company Stagecoach has added six new buses that run on 100% biofuel to its fleet based in Kent.
The six buses will run between the University of Kent and Canterbury bus station, with the university supporting the project by contributing to a storage facility for the fuel at Stagecoach’s depot in Herne Bay.
‘We are determined to try everything we can... [Read More]
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Sep 26, 2013
Renewable oil company Solazyme has agreed to sell algal oil to consumer goods multinational Unilever.
The agreement is for at least 10,000 tonnes of product and Unilever expects to complete the total volume purchase within 12 to 18 months. It is believed this deal has been five years in the making.
The product will be produced at the Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils facility... [Read More]
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Sep 25, 2013
An environmentally-friendly air transportation sector is the aim for an collaboration between the Indonesian government and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
It is believed the ICAO will assist in developing local civil aviation human resources and create objectives centred on promotion of alternative fuels initiatives among other things.
One of the... [Read More]
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Sep 25, 2013
North Dakota has become the ninth state in the US to offer the public E15 fuel at the pumps.
A total of six petrol stations now offer the blended fuel and the Renewable Fuels Association believes the US public is becoming more and more receptive to green fuel options.
‘A recent Fuels America poll showed that 82% of Americans want E15 to be available at the petrol... [Read More]
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Sep 24, 2013
The two remaining foreign petroleum players in Indonesia have been told to increase the proportion of biodiesel mix at their petrol stations.
PT Shell Indonesia and PT Total Oil Indonesia are reportedly obligated to increase their FAME content in diesel fuel mixes to at least 10% by January 2014. Any retailer failing to hit that target will face sanctions ranging from... [Read More]
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