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Diamond Green Biodiesel, a joint venture between Valero Energy and Darling International, has reached capacity during its start-up phase.
The plant, based next to Valero’s St Charles refinery in Louisiana, began operations in June and uses animal fat, used cooking oil and other waste grease to produce just over 9,000 barrels of biodiesel per day (bpd) currently.
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Scientists at Canadian-based bioscience research organisation Genome Prairie has developed a full genome sequence of camelina sativa, a crop gaining prominence as a feedstock for biodiesel and jet fuel.
The study, under a public-private partnership called Prairie Gold, believes camelina could now also thrive in the Canadian prairies, offer producers another option within crop rotation and provide…
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Darling International, a provider of rendering, recycling and recovery solutions to the US food industry, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the assets of Rothsay, a division of Maple Leaf Foods, for approximately CA$645 million (€459 million) in cash.
Rothsay is a biodiesel producer and recycler of animal by-products in Canada by processing raw materials into finished…
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Commercial iso-butanol producer Gevo has cut the ribbon on its new biorefinery this August.
The demonstration-scale plant is located adjacent to its jet fuel plant in Texas, US and will produce renewable paraxylene, a chemical prevalent in fibre and plastic production.
Gevo is working with Toray Industries to develop the renewable chemical at the plant, having successfully worked towards that…
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Ghana-based Smart Oil, active in the production of renewable energy from jatropha curcas and subsidiary of Italian company Smart Oil 2, has signed a license and services agreement with Quinvita, a developer of jatropha as a sustainable bioenergy crop.
The agreement provides Smart Oil with access to Qunivita’s advanced agronomy know how as it plans to further develop its 700 hectare jatropha…
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Jatropha grown in Hawaii is the subject of a new partnership in the US state.
Pacific Biodiesel (PB) have signed an agreement with Hawaii Pure Plant Oil under its PB Technologies brand for the crop under the federally funded Hawaii Military Biofuel Crop project.
The project involves developing production models for jatropha, and other crops, to eventually share with potential biofuel crop growers…
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An ethanol plant in Texas, US is to restart operations after a seven month idle period.
White Energy claims the Plainview Ethanol facility will resume production before November and the company is holding job interviews over the summer. It hopes to be running at around 80% of its 325,000 gallons of ethanol a day capacity to begin with, before working up to full capacity before the end of…
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A new bioethanol plant development has been launched by the Indonesian government this August.
To be located in East Java, the plant will use molasses as its base feedstock and have a production capacity of 30 million litres when complete.
The project is the result of a partnership between the Indonesia Industry Ministry and the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development…
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Canadian biofuel company Lignol Energy is set to invest additional monies into a currently idle Australia-based biodiesel facility.
The additional $908,000 (€678,100) investment will increase Lignol’s holding in plant owner Territory Biofuels to 66% of issued and outstanding shares and 68% on fully diluted basis. The 140 million litre capacity facility is the largest biodiesel plant in…
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It has been claimed an EU-backed project in Spain has produced its first crop of algae for biofuel use.
The All-gas project, located in Chiclana and led by water company FCC Aqualia has used wastewater to grow the algae as it has a high nutrient quality. The initial fuel will be tested in local rubbish trucks and buses.
Since the five year plan was launched in 2011, it has already seen an algae…
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Green Plains Renewable Energy will officially open its recently-acquired ethanol plant in Atkinson, Nebraska this August.
Plains commenced operations of the approximately 50 million gallon capacity facility this July after it signed a purchase agreement to acquire the membership interests of Choice Ethanol Holdings.
‘The communities of Atkinson and O'Neill were very helpful in our efforts…
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Fox River Valley Ethanol, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ace Ethanol, has been revealed as the purchaser of the Utica Energy ethanol plant and its related assets.
The sale includes the 50 million gallon ethanol production facility in Utica, Wisconsin, a nearby distiller’s grains drying facility and a grain elevator in Green Bay. It is believed Ace’s ethanol plant is similar in capacity…
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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has supported a biodiesel project based in Botswana, Africa.
JICA will donate an estimated P$2 million (€175,000) worth of equipment to aid a biodiesel processing plant, which uses jatropha feedstock, at helping the country reduce its dependency on fuel imports.
The overall project started in Botswana last year and the donated equipment will…
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A biofuels feasibility study in Australia has received funding from the local government of Victoria.
The Hepburn Shire Council will use the AU$60,000 (€41,235) as it considers converting heavy fleet vehicles to biodiesel.
Hepburn Shire will work with fellow councils in Golden Plains and Pyrenees Shire to work out the best way for their local communities to benefit from the switch. As well…
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Quad County Corn Processors, after four years of research into an $8.5 million (€6.4 million) expansion, has developed a technology to make 2 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol each year via corn kernel fibre feedstock.
The process, which ferments the starch first and then the fibre rather than a concurrent process that does both at the same time, is expected to increase the 35 million…
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