Jun 28, 2013
Angolan ethanol project gearing up for production
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Jun 27, 2013
One of the most powerful people on Earth, US President Barack Obama, gave a passionate address on climate change on 25 June during a visit to Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Obama wants to cut carbon pollution and reduce global warming and told an audience of students and visitors: ‘I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet... [Read More]
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Jun 26, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will make up to $98.6 million (€75.6 million) available to support advanced biofuels production.
Eligible producers can submit applications to obtain a share of the pot, including those that did not apply during the last window in October 2012
‘The US is on the path to a cleaner, more secure energy future,’ US agriculture... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
Dutch company Firmtec, which provides vegetable oil processing systems, is set to deliver what it calls the ‘first ever plant capable of producing 100% green biodiesel’.
The facility will be owned and operated by Indonesian company Waterland and will make the biodiesel via enzymes and ethanol, using oil from the Camelina sativa plant.
The biodiesel plant will... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
US-based Red Rock Biofuels has won a multi-million dollar contract to produce biofuels for the US military.
The company was one of four to have private investments matched by funds from the Defence Production Act under the Advanced Biofuels Production Project. This project is hoped to produce military-grade fuels under $4 (€3) a gallon within three years.
RRB’s... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
A move to block the sale of E15 blended petrol in the US has been quashed by the US Supreme Court this June.
The court rejected a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the chief lobbying group for the oil industry, that the blend was unsafe for consumption in cars and motorcycles built pre-2001.
Bob Greco, a senior API official, claimed the use of E15 ‘could... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2013
US-based Genscape, the first approved Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) QAP provider, is now obtained further EPA approval for biofuels produced at foreign facilities and imported into the country.
This means foreign biofuel producers can now obtain Genscape-certified QAP RINs to improve marketability and hopefully increase buyer confidence.
‘We know our... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
A report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has put ethanol production down 1.2% to put overall output to its lowest level in three weeks.
It shows that output fell in the second of those weeks, put at 873,000 barrels a day, the first consecutive declines since early March. Inventories, however, did increase 2.9% to 16.5 million barrels and represents the... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
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... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
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... [Read More]
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