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The National Algae Association (NAA) has announced a new Algae Production Incubator Programme to be located in Texas, US.
The project will be housed across five commercial buildings on 17 acres for new algae production start-up companies that require land, buildings and a source of CO2 for the first 12 months to grow algae for a range of uses including fuels.
‘After 60 years and $2.5…
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Boeing and South African Airlines (SAA) have announced they are to work together in developing and implementing a sustainable aviation biofuel supply chain in Southern Africa, a first for the continent.
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for sustainable aviation biofuel supply chain development at The Corporate Council on Africa's 9th Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit as…
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Avianca Brasil, one of the country's fastest-growing airlines, has announced its selection of the Byogy Renewables Alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fully renewable aviation biofuel process to source their low carbon fuels for the future.
Byogy's fuels are direct, 'drop-in' substitutes for petrol-based fuels. Based in San Jose, California, the renewable energy company produces advanced biofuels from any…
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SG Biofuels (SGB), an energy crop company has signed a mandate letter with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the debt financing of its 25,000 acre jatropha bioenergy project in Guatemala. The project cost is estimated at approximately $76 million (€56.1 million).
This enables IDB and SGB to proceed with financial, technical and environmental due diligence on a project that…
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Beta Renewables, a cellulosic biofuels business and part of the Mossi Ghisolfi Group, and Novozymes, a producer of industrial enzymes, marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced biofuels facility this October.
Situated in fields outside the city of Crescentino, it is claimed to be ‘the first plant in the world’ to be designed and built to…
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Market and technology company BDI-BioEnergy International has signed a contract with Croatian government representatives to kick-start a pioneering biodiesel pioneer project in the country.
The project is set to establish the largest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant both in Croatia and south-east Europe and will cost approximately €20 million ($27 million). The total capacity of the plant has…
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An award-winning University of Queensland researcher hopes to use a chemical found in lemons and other citrus fruits to produce clean, renewable jet fuel.
Claudia Vickers, a senior researcher at the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, is modifying baker's yeast to produce a synthetic form of the natural chemical…
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A new investment will be made into Mustard 21 Canada to help it continue research and development of the crop as an industrial feedstock for the emerging biofuels sector, among others.
Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz has announced an investment of CN$4.9 million (€3.4 million) to the non-profit organisation to go towards helping mustard producers ‘increase their competitiveness and…
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A new report produced for the Greater London Authority (GLA) by LRS Consultancy has sparked further support from the Mayor of London to entice the biodiesel industry into the capital.
After reviewing The market for biodiesel production from used cooking oils and fats, oils and greases in London, Mayor of London Boris Johnson says: ‘By capturing used cooking oil right here in London and…
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As butanol continues to show strong potential as a biofuel, a new ASTM International standard has been introduced covering butanol intended to be blended with petrol at 1 to 12.5% volume for use as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel.
ASTM D7862-13, the specification for Butanol for Blending with Petrol for Use as Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel, was developed by a subcommittee of ASTM…
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The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have announced a move to a B10 biodiesel mandate after certain conditions were met.
All departments are required to determine whether four statutory conditions had been met before increasing the minimum biodiesel content mandate to B10, which was originally due in 2012, before next moving to B20 in…
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BlueFire Renewables, a renewable fuels company, is to integrate a wood pellet production plant with its ethanol facility in Mississippi, US.
The reconfigured design will see a 400,000 tonne per year wood pellet factory integrated with the company's existing 9 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Fulton.
The pellets will be sold under long-term contracts into the European mandated renewable…
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Alternative fuel company Primus Green Energy is to commission a 100,000 gallon a year natural gas to petrol pre-commercial demonstration plant at its New Jersey, US facility.
The demo plant will use Primus’ proprietary technology, a four reactor catalytic process which converts syngas derived from natural gas or other feedstocks to petrol, jet fuel, diesel or aromatic chemicals without, it…
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Butamax Advanced Biofuels, a biobutanol technology company, and Highwater Ethanol, a first generation ethanol producer, have begun to retrofit Highwater's ethanol plant in Minnesota, US for the production of biobutanol.
The pair have entered into definitive agreements for license of Butamax's patented corn oil separation technology, and installation of system has already commenced with commercial…
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Hong Kong-based ASB Biodiesel is to start generating biodiesel at its processing plant in November.
Located at the Tseung Kwan O industrial estate and expected to start in November, ASB is excepting to produce around 100,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year. The plant, to reach that figure of B100 blends, is expecting to use 200,750 tonnes of grease trap waste as feedstock.
The bulk of initial…
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