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The ethanol industry is expecting to export a record amount of ethanol in 2014, reports Nebraska Ethanol Board.
As low carbon fuel standards continue to be implemented worldwide, this increases the ongoing demand for ethanol. Though this increase helps US ethanol producers ensure maximum profit by having an alternative method for selling, local experts are concerned about the effect this surge…
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Pacific Ethanol is reopening its shuttered California plant as demand for ethanol is increasing.
Based on strengthening demand for biofuel, Pacific Ethanol intends to reopen a plant in Madera, California, after it stopped production for five years.
The plant has an annual ethanol production capacity of 40 million gallons and is expected to begin production this spring.
A number of the company's…
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Addax BioEnergy's plant, which processes ethanol from sugarcane and is the first of its kind in Africa, is due to start production soon.
Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma visited the Addax BioEnergy plant on Saturday in the run up to its start date.
The plant will produce about 85,000m3 of ethanol and approximately 100,000 MWh of renewable power per annum.
The sugarcane estate is…
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The Veracruz government will open its first ethanol producing biofuel station.
The fuel station is expected to provide biofuel for public transportation, according to Ossiel Castro de la Rosa, the director of the Bioenergy Institute of Veracruz.
Several donors will present the organisation with a combined total of 240 million pesos (€13 million) in funding.
'We have gone through all the…
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Royal DSM and Poet have collaborated on a cellulosic ethanol producing plant, located in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
The joint venture will see the two companies oversee ethanol production at the $250 million (€180 million) plant, which will produce about 12 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol this year alone, DSM chief executive Feike Sijbesma says.
Cellulosic ethanol production should start at the…
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Brazil forecasts growth in its cane harvest and sugar output, despite the drought in its main sugar-producing region.
In its first estimates, Brazil's Conab crop bureau anticipates the country's cane, ethanol and sugar output in 2014-2015 to reach 672 million tonnes, a 2% increase year on year.
Ethanol output will rise by 1.5% to 412 million litres and sugar production will rise by 4.2% to 40…
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Stanford University scientists have found a unique liquid ethanol production method that uses carbon monoxide gas.
The scientists hope this new discovery will provide an eco-friendly, efficient alternative to conventional ethanol production from corn and other crops.
Results from the study are published in the advanced online edition of the journal Nature, released on April 9.
Matthew Kanan, an…
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Vireol Bio Energy LLC will commission the Hopewell plant, formerly owned by Osage Bio Energy facility to begin ethanol production.
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced on Wednesday April 9 that the company, which will produce ethanol from corn, barley and other small grains, will invest more than $26.2 million (€19 million) to begin production at the plant.
The plant will be the largest…
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IncBio has recently secured an agreement to supply a 55,000 MT/year transesterification plant, for an undisclosed client in South America.
The plant will produce biodiesel from locally produced palm oil and ion exchange resin towers for purification, using the Portuguese engineering company's technology.
José Marques, CEO of IncBio says: 'Using our multi-feedstock technology, industrial…
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Aurora Algae is expanding its south Texas testing facility with four one-acre algae cultivation ponds and a harvesting system for potential commercial production.
Greg Bafalis, CEO of Aurora Algae, says: 'We have successfully tested our algae cultivation system in countries around the world, including Australia, India, Italy, Mexico and multiple locations in the United States. From our initial…
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A team of researchers have published the first study to focus on multiple genes that control steps in the pathway for seed oil production in oilseed crops.
The researchers from Rothamsted Research have found that 'stacking' the right combination of genes can have an additive effect on seed oil content and oil yield. The research was carried out using the model oilseed plant Arabidopsis thaliana,…
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Lignol Energy Corporation (LEC) and M Energy Co., Ltd. (M Energy) have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining their collaboration on restarting LEC's 140 million litre per year biodiesel plant in Darwin, Australia.
The project will incorporate M Energy's proprietary pre-treatment technology and if successful, will provide enough capital for the Darwin project and an…
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GeoSynFuels, LLC (GSF) has announced its acquisition of a cellulosic ethanol demonstration facility formerly owned and operated by the Blue Sugars Corporation.
The demonstration facility, in Upton, Wyoming, which has a capacity of 50 tonnes per day, was originally built in 2007 for the enzymatic conversion of wood feedstocks to ethanol.
In 2011, the facility was converted to allow the processing…
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PTT and Mitr Phol Group are teaming up to build a plant designed to produce Gasohol E85, a type of biofuel.
On 3 April, the company signed a joint venture agreement with Thailand's largest sugar manufacturer to construct a plant in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum, Thailand.
Ethanol collected as a by-product of the sugar produced at the Mitr Phol plant in the region will be used to make…
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CRIBE is delivering an investment of up to $1.5 million (€1 million) to Ensyn Technologies to expand their Renfrew facility.
Ensyn intends to dedicate the facility's use to biofuels and increase its production capacity.
By enhancing their existing facility in Renfrew, Ensyn will be able to deliver their petroleum-replacement liquid biofuel produced from forest residues to heating oil…
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