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A research team at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland is hoping to turn seawater into biofuels within the next four years.
Named the AccliPhot project, it is backed by €4 million ($5.4 million) of EU funding and involves 12 partners from across the continent.
Its aim is to try and understand more fully how plants and microalgae respond to changes in light and other conditions and use that…
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Biodiesel provider Gulf Hydrocarbon Partners has partnered with Akash Energy to resume operations at the Houston, Texas-based Lone Star Terminal, which now offers renewable and biodiesel.
The Lone Star Terminal has a total capacity of 6.7 million gallons, of which Gulf Hydrocarbon has leased 420,000 gallons of storage for biodiesel. It is hoped this new offering of biodiesel will provide retail…
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Brazil-based ETH Bioenergy and European technology provider Inbicon will work together to bring second generation ethanol to the Brazilian market.
The partnership aims to introduce Inbicon’s technology to ETH’s industrial and commercial experience to produce ethanol and other products from lignocellulosic raw materials such as bagasse. Inbicon is owned by Danish energy company Dong…
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A two-year pilot biofuels project in Whyalla, Australia has been given a location to set up shop by the local council.
The facility has been given two hectares at an industrial site to produce biofuels from algae feedstock thanks to ‘unanimous approval’ from the Whyalla City Council in January.
‘The project, in our view, ticks all the boxes - employment opportunities,…
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US-based renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris has shipped its first load of biofene from its new plant in Brazil.
The facility represents Amyris’ first purpose-built industrial fermentation plant which produces farnesene from sugarcane to create the biofene.
‘This initial shipment marks the successful completion of our start-up activities. We have operated multiple tanks…
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Spanish oil storage and transportation company CLH Group supplied over 2.4 million m3 of biofuels throughout 2012, a 27% increase on what it delivered in 2011.
In a statement the company said 2.1 million m3 of this was biodiesel and the remaining 0.3 million m3 was bioethanol. Of the 2.1 million m3 of biodiesel, 700,000m3 was accounted for by second generation hydrobiodiesel (HVO) which,…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed its 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2).
The proposed 2013 overall volumes and standards are: Biomass-based diesel (1.28 billion gallons; 1.12%)Advanced biofuels (2.75 billion gallons; 1.60%)Cellulosic biofuels (14 million gallons; 0.008%)Total…
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Two US east coast-based biodiesel development companies have signed an agreement to provide the national capital region (NCR) with clean burning biodiesel.
Tri-State Biodiesel subsidiary Beltway Biodiesel and DC Biofuels (DCB) will launch a combined waste vegetable oil collection from restaurants and large food service institutes. The NCR is primarily made up of Washington, Arlington and…
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India-based process engineering and solutions company Praj Industries has won a contract to provide an ethanol plant in Columbia.
The order comes from food and sugar processing business Riopaila Castilla (RC) and is worth a total of $20 million (€14.7 million), which includes the plant which will produce 400,000 litres of ethanol a day at RC’s sugar plant in La Pailia.
The ethanol…
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US-based Guardian Energy Heron Lake (GEHL) has signed an agreement to acquire the ethanol production assets from Heron Lake BioEnergy.
The transaction, which also includes a 73% ownership interest in pipeline subsidiary Agrinatural Gas, is expected to close by the start of March, pending regulatory and member approval.
The Heron Lake natural gas-fired ethanol plant produces almost 60 million…
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The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant for a multidisciplinary Cal Poly research team to develop algae biofuels processes.
The $1.3 million (€961,400) will help the team, dubbed the Algae Technology Group, look at developing processes that turn waste resources and nutrients recycled from algae-derived biomass into sustainable biofuels.
The DoE hope a successful project will…
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Terminal network owner Global Partners has signed an agreement to acquire a Portland, Oregon-based crude oil and ethanol facility from Cascade Kelly Holdings for approximately $95 million (€70 million).
Assets included in the transaction are 200,000 barrels of storage capacity, a rail transloading facility served by the BNSF Railway, a deepwater marine terminal and a 1,200ft. dock, in…
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Energy crop company SG Biofuels (SGB) is to work with two Brazilian companies to advance the development of jatropha as a next generation crop.
Agreements have been signed by SGB with agricultural research institution Embrapa and biodiesel refiner Fiagril.
‘These agreements validate the two years of progress we’ve made advancing our genetics in Brazil and provide a platform from which…
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A resolution following a lift of the embargo by Spain on any imported non-EU biofuels which caused dispute with Argentina has been announced
The Spanish government, since the spring of last year, decreed that only fuel produced within the EU could meet its quota for biofuels used in transport. Europe is Argentina’s second biggest trading partner, after Brazil, so that prompted the South…
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A consortium targeting biofuels production in the US will be awarded a grant by the Biofuels Centre of North Carolina.
The 13 strong group, led by AdvantageWest Economic Development, will receive $766,256 (€570,133) to fortify the biofuels sector and help with expansion in the region through a project called Planting the Seeds for a Robust WNC Biofuels Sector.
The project will hope to…
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