Jun 30, 2014
Alaska Airlines saving fuel using NextGen procedures
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Jun 27, 2014
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a notice detailing contract proposals for its Advanced Biofuel Payment Programme.
According to the NOCP, the programme, which gives payments to producers to support and expand advanced biofuels production, has $15 million (€11 million) available for the fiscal year 2014.
The programme rules state that the number... [Read More]
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Jun 27, 2014
A Houston federal grand jury has indicted the owner and CEO of two biodiesel companies with renewable identification number (RIN) fraud, in a scheme that allegedly made him over $29 million (€21 million).
The 68-count against Philip Joseph Rivkin, includes allegations of wire fraud, mail fraud, Clean Air Act false statements and money laundering.
'The indictment... [Read More]
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Jun 27, 2014
Canada's biofuel support programmes have been 'a dismal failure,' with costs outweighing benefits by a three-to-one margin, according to a study released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Between the years of 2008 to 2012, the study's authors estimate the biofuels policies to have cost between $3 (€2.20) and $3.50 (€2.60) for every dollar of social and... [Read More]
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Jun 26, 2014
Finland-based UPM is building a biorefinery in Lappeenranta, Finland that will produce renewable diesel, known as BioVerno.
The facility will be the world’s first commercial scale wood-based biorefinery when operations begin this summer. It will produce approximately 100,000 tonnes of renewable UPM BioVerno diesel each year, covering a quarter of Finland’s... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2014
Isuzu Motors and Euglena will team up to develop a new kind of biodiesel using algae.
The companies are looking to develop a type of fuel that can be used on its own unlike existing kinds that need to be mixed with light oil.
‘As long as we use light oil for diesel engines, emissions of carbon dioxide are inevitable,’ says Susumu Hosoi, president... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2014
Celtic Renewables, an Edinburgh-based biofuels company, has signed an agreement with Belgium's Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant to start testing its process to turn whisky by-products into biofuel that can power vehicles.
After receiving a further €1.5 million in funding, Celtic Renewables will be the first company to trial biobutanol technology at the biotechnology pilot... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2014
The Northeast biodiesel plant has received a $540,000 (€397,000) grant from the state Department of Energy Resources.
Construction of the $3.5 million plant began ten years ago and is now nearing completion.
With a further $350,000 of investment, Lynn Benander, president of Co-op Power Energy Cooperative, expects construction of the cooking-grease-to-diesel-fuel... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2014
Neste Oil and Renewable Algae Energy (RAE), a US-based algae biomass producer, have signed a commercial algae oil off-take agreement.
Traffic fuels refiner and marketer, Neste Oil, is researching algae oil as one of the alternative feedstocks for producing NEXBTL renewable diesel.
Implementation of the agreement will require RAE to increase its algae oil production capacity... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
Zimbabwe's government has scrapped plans to increase the mandatory threshold for ethanol blending and will maintain the current levels, as a result of the disappointing sugarcane output.
Initially, the government planned to increase the mandatory blending of petrol with ethanol to 20% by April this year from the current E15, reporting this would save $72 million (€53... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
US ethanol outputs have hit a record high as plants prepare for the increasing seasonal demand and positive margins.
With weak corn prices and increasing crude oil values to reinforce this demand, last week saw plants produce on average 972,000 barrels a day, 28,000 barrels a day more than the previous week – the highest ever figure since records began.
The weak... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2014
New research suggests that waste coffee could be used to power vehicles, help improve the sustainability of biofuels and respond to the issue of climate change.
Researchers at the University of Bath have released a report published in the ACS Journal Energy and Fuels, detailing findings which show that waste coffee grounds have more potential for creating biofuels than... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2014
Amyris, a renewable energy provider, has designed microorganisms that convert plant sugars to a molecule called farnesene. Farnesene is then converted into a pure hydrocarbon through a secondary process.
The resulting product, farnesane, can be blended with Jet A/A1 at 10% blends, in accordance with the revised ASTM standard.
Amyris is currently producing renewable farnesene... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2014
The Brazilian government gets ready to test a higher percentage of ethanol in commercial petrol.
Over the next two months, testers will analyse the viability of increasing the mandatory blend of the biofuel in petrol.
Ethanol is currently blended into petrol at the maximum of 25%.
Despite no information released on what higher blends will be measured, the cane industry... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2014
A $1.8 million (€1.3 million) federal grant has been awarded to Clinton, North Carolina, for its water and sewer equipment at the city's cellulosic biofuels refinery.
The $200 million investment, which looks set to produce 20 million gallons per year of cellulosic biofuels, is expected to start production in October and be fully operational by the end of 2016.
The... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2014
The European Renewable Ethanol Industry Association (ePURE) has published its first industry report, detailing both Europe's ethanol production and consumption.
It also notes the opportunities and challenges the industry will face in the future and the influence the EU policy will have on the ethanol industry's status and growth.
Rob Vierhout, ePURE's secretary general,... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2014
Amyris, an industrial bioscience company and energy providers Total have announced their drop-in jet fuel, which contains a 10% mix of renewable farnesane, under a newly revised ASTM standard.
The duo have closely coordinated the release of the fuel with Boeing, who aims to see biofuels account for a 1% share in the total jet fuel supply within 10 years.
The fuel has... [Read More]
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