Dec 31, 2012
Iran business to increase biodiesel production
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Dec 28, 2012
The Olvi Foundation (OF) has decided to join in the funding of Green Fuel Nordic’s (GFN) biorefinery project.
The decision will represent one of the most significant capital investors into the biorefinery project according to OF CEO Timo Saarelainen.
GFN has spent the last 12 months making different players more aware of bio-oil, its production, applications and... [Read More]
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Dec 28, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be seeking a new administrator after Lisa Jackson stepped down from the position after four years.
It is believed Jackson told President Barack Obama of her decision to leave her post shortly after his re-election in November. Below is the statement that Jackson issued upon her departure:
‘I want to thank President... [Read More]
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Dec 27, 2012
Dubai-based Lootah Biofuels is set to work with AlgaOil to research using algae for oil extraction outside of man-made ponds.
Lootah will work with the Singapore-based algae cultivator at looking at more natural spaces and resources to create biodiesel from algae, particularly within the untouched desert in the region.
‘The potential of biodiesel from algae is very... [Read More]
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Dec 21, 2012
Energy giant Petrobras’ logistics division Transpetro is set to transport ethanol via barges from its new shipyard in Aracatuba, Sao Paulo.
Transpetro will spend $400 million (€302.9 million) on 20 new barges to move 45,000 bl along the Tiete-Parana waterway in 2013, although that realisation is two years behind schedule.
The new barges will save approximately... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2012
Ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy's wholly owned subsidiary BlendStar has commenced operations at its newly built 96-car train terminal in Birmingham, Alabama.
The new terminal is served by the BNSF Railway and has a throughout yearly capacity of 300 million gallons of ethanol.
'The Birmingham terminal will provide more efficient distribution of ethanol to... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2012
Researchers at Clemson University and commercial forestry business ArborGen are to jointly study the potential use of poplar trees for bioenergy and biofuels feedstock in the US.
The South Carolina-based project will see the pair plant thousands of poplar trees on-site at the university’s Pee Dee Centre.
ArborGen's southeastern field research manager David Brown... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2012
Direvo Industrial Biotechnology has completed the scale-up of its first two products in collaboration with the Centre for Crops Utilisation Research (CCUR) and the BioCentury Research Farm (BCRF) at Iowa State University, US.
The two products have been named by Direvo as BluZyTM-D and BluZyTM-P.
A team led by director of CCUR and BCRF, Larry Johnson, conducted lab-scale... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2012
A working collaboration has revealed the progress in developing an advanced microbiological pathway to convert CO2 to fuels and chemicals.
Synthetic biology researchers Ginkgo BioWorks has validated that its genetically modified microbes can utilise a feedstock of formate produced from CO2 by risk management business DNV.
DNV’s input to the process has also... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2012
A consortium is to use a multi-million euro grant to construct a large-scale biomass refinery in the Netherlands.
The companies involved are BioMCN, Siemens, Linde, and Visser and Smit Hanab, which received a €199 million NER300 grant to fund the project also known as Woodspirit.
NER300 is a financing instrument, jointly managed by the European Commission (EC), European... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2012
Jeffrey Gunselman, the man behind US-based biofuels company Absolute Fuels, has pleaded guilty to several accounts of money laundering and federal fraud in relation to a $42 million (€31.6 million) biodiesel fraud investigation.
He pleaded guilty in federal court in Lubbock, Texas in December to 51 wire fraud counts and 24 of money laundering. He also further admitted... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2012
A joint research project between Finland-based Turku University and Manchester University in the UK believe it has found a way to unlock clean fuel from some obscure feedstocks.
A fatty acid compound found in ice cream, which also resides in other items like shampoo and soap, could be a long-term solution to replace fossil fuels through hydrocarbon chemical manipulation.
‘The... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2012
Renewable energy watchdog for Europe EurObserv’er has calculated the final gross energy consumption for the 27 European member states.
There has been an estimated rise of nearly 1% over 2011, which finished on 13.4%, compared to 2010 on 12.5%.
The report believes the increase in renewable energy share across the 27 states can be explained by the combination of a... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2012
A new $7 million (€5.3 million), five year biofuels collaboration has been signed this month.
International chemical company Johnson Matthey will work with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at producing economical drop-in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from non-food based biomass.
‘It’s a way of leveraging the... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2012
Renewable oil and bioproducts company Solazyme has completed multiple initial fermentations at Archer Daniels Midland’s (ADM) Iowa, US-based facility.
Solazyme claims to have achieved commercial-scale production metrics, linear scalability of its process from laboratory scale and demonstrated the ability to run large scales without contamination.
The fermentations... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2012
Following a fire that occurred almost a year ago to the day, Australia-based biodiesel producer Australian Renewable Fuels (ARF) has recommissioned its Largs North processing and storage facility.
It has cost AU$6.5 million (€5.2 million) to rebuild, but now also includes a fuel-blending facility on-site. The first truck shipped fuel out at the start of December,... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2012
A venture deal has been completed between the Mars Cleantech Fund and Woodland Biofuels as the producer closes in on being North America’s lowest-cost ethanol provider.
Woodland Biofuels makes cellulosic ethanol from woodchips and other agricultural biomass into fuel at its newly opened demonstration plant in Ontario.
‘This fund seeks technologies with the... [Read More]
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