Jul 25, 2012
Potential loss of license for biofuels producer
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Jul 24, 2012
Integrated energy company Maple Energy has claimed its joint ethanol and power project in Peru is now fully operational.
The 37MW power side of the plant was recently completed and Maple is confident it will be now able to increase the amount of electricity before the end of the year, which will eventually supply enough to satisfy the needs of its ethanol plant and provide... [Read More]
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Jul 24, 2012
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by three companies to establish a partnership to enable production of butadiene from renewable feedstocks.
The joint venture is between elastomer producer Versalis, renewable chemical technology provider Genomatica and third generation integrated biorefineries pioneer Novamont.
Versalis will hold a majority interest in the... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2012
US-based biofuels company Coskata has decided not to go forward with a proposed $100 million (€82.5 million) initial public offering (IPO) as it looks instead towards natural gas options.
Plans to build a commercial scale plant in Alabama, which would convert wood waste to ethanol, will be put onto the back burner as it looks into feeding the plant with natural gas,... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2012
A new pilot plant for the production of climate-friendly cellulose ethanol in Germany has been inaugurated.
Developed by Swiss chemicals company Clariant, the €28 million ($33.8 million) project will produce up to 1,000 tonnes of cellulose ethanol from around 4,500 tonnes of wheat straw. It is believed that Germany has around 22 million tonnes of available straw for... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2012
The Brazilian state of Pernambuco will be home to a proposed new biofuels plant that will use seaweed as its feedstock.
The $9.8 million (€7.9 million) plant will be constructed by Austrian-based company SAT at the site of a sugar cane plantation. It will produce up to 1.2 million litres of algae-based biofuels a year by using carbon dioxide created during ethanol... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2012
A new pilot plant in Ontario, Canada is due to demonstrate how spent solvent and waste water converter KMX’s technology can reduce operational costs for biofuels and green chemical manufacturers.
KMX believes pathways to cellulosic ethanol and biobutanol can be aided by its hydrophobic and hydrophilic membrane technology. The pilot plant will show how it can capture... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2012
A biofuels scheme has gained European approval so that UK feedstocks can now have Red Tractor status.
The proposal, named The Red Tractor Crops and Sugar Beet Scheme, will ensure traceability on feedstocks back to individual UK farms and has been backed by the European Commission, ensuring recognition across all 27 member states. It has taken two years of lobbying by Red... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2012
British Petroleum (BP) is set to use its position as event partner of the London 2012 Olympic Games to springboard its latest advance in biofuels technology.
BP will provide biofuels and lubricants to a fleet of over 5,000 BMW-supplied vehicles throughout July and August, including one based on a 24% biobutanol-blended gasoline.
And, if all goes well, BP executives... [Read More]
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Jul 18, 2012
The Wisconsin Institute for Sustainability Technology (WIST) has been issued a patent to create biofuels from plant fibre.
It is WIST’s first patent will allow for a process that can create biofuels and other products from cellulosic plant material including agricultural residues like corn stover or plants grown specifically for fuel production, such as hardwood... [Read More]
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Jul 18, 2012
Production developer of biofuels and bio-based chemicals Codexis has signed an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with Shell.
Shell has agreed to negotiate exclusively with Codexis and would grant the company certain rights and licenses in the biofuels field to develop and sell cellulase enzymes to third parties on a worldwide basis, except Brazil. Codexis has exclusive rights... [Read More]
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Jul 17, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has closed public comment on the approval of grain sorghum as an advanced biofuel under the renewable Fuels Standard.
The period for comments has been open for over a month and been championed by sorghum producers country-wide, with National Farmer’s Union president Roger Johnson supportive from the beginning.
Johnson... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2012
Vivergo Fuels has confirmed that the start-up its proposed new biorefinery in eastern England will be delayed until towards the end of 2012.
The biorefinery, claimed to be one of the biggest in Europe upon its completion and based near Hull, is set to use over one million tonnes of feed wheat to produce 420 million litres of bioethanol a year. An approximate by product... [Read More]
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Jul 13, 2012
After successful demonstration of its catalytic process for making jet fuel, diesel and high octane gasoline from renewable energy sources AliphaJet is taking the project to the next level.
AliphaJet used plant oil and animal fat to produce its biofuels and is now launching a programme to build a demonstration scale facility with an annual capacity of 500,000 gallons a... [Read More]
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Jul 12, 2012
US-based Protabit, an off-shoot from the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research grant (phase one) for engineering cellulose enzymes.
The computational protein software platform designers will use the award from the National Science Foundation to engineer cellulose enzymes, which are used in the production of biofuels... [Read More]
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Jul 12, 2012
The executive VP of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation’s (BIO) Industrial and Environmental Section, Brent Erickson, has issued a statement in response to what he called ‘false claims’ made by the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) president Charles Drevna in regard to cellulosic biofuels.
Erickson’s statement was sent to... [Read More]
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Jul 11, 2012
US-based advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company Aemetis has acquired ethanol plant owners Cilion, which includes a 55 million gallon per year production plant.
The acquisition is set to advance Aemetis’ plans to use the existing ethanol plant’s infrastructure to create a next-generation biorefinery producing advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals,... [Read More]
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