May 15, 2013
Increasing options for biodiesel production in Holland
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May 15, 2013
The Leaders of Sustainable Biofuels (LSB) met the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels this May at a meeting hosted by the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) Committee.EP VP Alejo Vidal Quadras introduced the positions of the EP ITRE Committee on the European Commission revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED).The Leaders sent a clear message to the EP members:... [Read More]
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May 15, 2013
The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) has asked the European Commission to investigate if EU customs legislation is properly applied in Finland.
Evidence from several sources indicates that ethanol blended with gasoline coming from the US, destined for the EU market, will be classified as an ethanol blend with much lower import duties than denatured ethanol,... [Read More]
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May 14, 2013
BioFuelNet Canada, a not-for-profit organization hosted by Montreal’s McGill University, has signed an agreement with Air Canada and Airbus to explore biofuel solutions for aviation.
Air Canada and Airbus are part of a broad coalition, which has pledged Carbon Neutral Growth from 2020 and to reduce greenhouse emissions by 50% by 2050. BioFuelNet Canada will assess... [Read More]
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May 13, 2013
What do you get when you cross the Canadian federal government, a biofuels company and an oil giant? No not a Mexican stand-off but, according to recent news reports, a new biofuels facility.
The CN$19 million (€14.4 million) plant slated for construction in northern Alberta will receive funding from the National Research Council. It will use CO2 emissions from oilsands... [Read More]
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May 13, 2013
US-based Advanced Biofuels has purchased an ethanol plant in Washington and plans to update the facility’s technology.
The 7 million gallons a year plant, located at Moses Lake, will be retrofitted and new pre-treatment process equipment is to be added. This will bring the capacity of the plant down to 6 million gallons but upgrade the product to advanced ethanol.
AB... [Read More]
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May 10, 2013
Over the UK’s Department of Transport has released figures regarding the country’s use of renewable fuel between April 2012 and January.
It states 965 million litres of renewable fuel were supplied during that period, of which 66% have proven to be sustainable, and 18% of that was sourced directly from UK feedstocks.
The breakdown of the 965 million litres... [Read More]
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May 9, 2013
A crop waste-to-ethanol project in Brazil has received a multi-million dollar loan from the Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econmico and Social development bank.
The $149.6 million (€113.7 million) will be used by a division of GranBio Investment to construct a facility capable of producing 82 million litres of fuel a year from sugarcane residuals.
It believes the technology... [Read More]
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May 9, 2013
EU cabinet ministers have been receiving ‘catastrophic warnings’ from biofuels associations and companies in regard to European Commission (EC) proposals surrounding indirect greenhouse gas emissions caused by fuel crops.
It has been reported by news service EurActiv that as many as three e-mails an hour were being sent in and that minutes of a cabinet coordination... [Read More]
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May 8, 2013
A US-based producer of chemical products is to jointly construct an ethanol plant in Indonesia this year.
Working with state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina, Celanese will help build the facility as part of an overall ethanol project worth around $2.5 billion (€1.9 billion).
A location for the facility is still being decided but ‘Palembang or Bontang’... [Read More]
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May 8, 2013
Small and medium enterprises in north west Europe can apply for Innovation Coupons to help them assess the feasibility of taking a bio-based idea or technology to industrial production.
The coupon scheme is being launched by Bio Base NWE, a new €6.2 million ($8.1 million) project funded under the INTERREF IVB NWE framework programme.
A coupon, each worth up... [Read More]
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May 7, 2013
UK-based biofuels producer Vireol is still hoping to secure more funding for its proposed ethanol plant in Grimsby.
It wants to raise £80 million (€95.4 million) to go towards constructing the 200 million litres per year facility which is reported to be using wheat as feedstock.
Vireol aims to commence building next year with operations slated to begin in 2016.... [Read More]
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May 7, 2013
Researchers from US space agency NASA have stated, after successful trials, that conventional jet fuel can be blended with biofuels to offer safe flying.
NASA scientists based at its research centre in California claim to have found ‘no noticeable difference’ to the performance of a DC-8 aircraft flying at 39,000ft using jet fuel and camelina oil.
Senior research... [Read More]
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May 3, 2013
A NASA research programme carried out in California has revealed that a fuel blend of camelina-based biofuel and conventional kerosene poses no risk to commercial jets.
Scientists at NASA's Langley Research Centre say test flights revealed engine performance remained unchanged when a DC-8 aircraft reached 39,000 feet powered by the fuel mix, AP reports. The study also... [Read More]
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May 2, 2013
The five year duty imposed on US ethanol exported to the European Commission needs to be challenged, according to a group of US senators.
After an anti-dumping investigation by the EC which began over a year and a half ago, it imposed a €110 ($83.03) per tonne tariff on US ethanol that kicked in three months ago.
Fourteen representatives, a mixture of republicans... [Read More]
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May 1, 2013
Corn-to-fuel business Gevo has been issued a new patent regarding isobutanol production.
The latest award, US patent 8,431,374, covers “the foundational methods for low-cost isobutanol production at commercially relevant titer, productivity and yields”.
‘This is a milestone achievement toward our goal of making commercial isobutanol a reality,’... [Read More]
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May 1, 2013
California-based Canergy, an advanced biofuels company focused on the production of ultra-low carbon intensity ethanol from sustainable non-food energy crops, is to work with chemical engineering and renewable processes business Chemtex, and cellulosic biofuels producer Beta Renewables, for the development of a 25 million gallon a year cellulosic biofuels facility.
Construction... [Read More]
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