Jul 27, 2009
Biofuels market to top $280 billion by 2022
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Jul 27, 2009
Italian biodiesel producers currently producing from food crops are working together to substitute seaweed for first-generation feedstocks.
The eight companies involved in the €10 million scheme currently produce diesel from crops like corn and rapeseed. They hope to be able to produce fuel from seaweed commercially within five years.
‘The initiative aims to substitute... [Read More]
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Jul 24, 2009
A parliamentary motion has been tabled urging the British Government to review its proposal to remove the tax incentive on biofuels.
At present, biodiesel is taxed at £0.20 (€0.23) per litre less than fossil diesel. The government proposes to remove this incentive in 2010, instead fining oil companies whose fuel contains less than 5% biodiesel, generating revenue... [Read More]
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Jul 24, 2009
Two New Zealand-based research companies have joined forces in an effort to improve the economics of algal biofuel production.
Many industries, including dairy, meat and paper, produce nutrient-rich wastewater that must be cleaned before it can legally be discharged into the watercourse. As part of this cleaning process, ‘settling ponds’ are used to remove organic... [Read More]
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Jul 24, 2009
Biodiesel could be economically produced from processed chicken innards, say scientists in Nevada.
‘Chicken feather meal’ is a gruesome by-product of the poultry industry, consisting of chicken feathers, blood, and innards processed at high temperatures with steam. 11 billion pounds of this is produced every year in the US alone.
Because of its high protein and... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2009
One island’s food waste is being put to a greener use.
One of the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion facilities and will generate 32,000 MW of energy a year by treating 165,000 tonnes of commercial food waste.
The £20 million (€23.2 million) Whites Renewable Energy plant is to be built in Selby, Yorkshire, after North Yorkshire county council granted planning permission... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2009
Uganda may be producing bioethanol from non-food crops within a year, say scientists.
A research programme led by the National Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) is using a wide range of cellulosic feedstocks such as elephant grass, cassava and wood.
The production of ethanol from cellulose is more difficult than from food crops, since it requires the complex... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2009
Mid-America Agri Products, the owner of a 44 million gallon per year bioethanol plant, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing unfavourable conditions in the bioethanol market.
The plant had been operating at full capacity for less than a year.
The plant closed in January, originally planning to reopen, but it has now laid its workers.
City officials are hoping... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
Healy Biodiesel is to convert from production of traditional biodiesel to become the first commercial producer of a new type of renewable diesel.
The Kansas-based producer signed a letter of intent with New Mexico’s Cetane Energy on 17 July. It is to abandon transesterification to become the first manufacturer to produce renewable diesel using Cetane’s patent-pending... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
The Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) is heading a pilot study to produce biofuel from fishing industry waste in Greenland.
The Greenland Shark, one of the world’s largest species of shark, is killed in large numbers by fishermen, either accidentally when they become entangled in nets or deliberately to prevent predation of commercially valuable species such as squid.... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
A project in Australia’s Queensland is looking to generate power from bananas.
Horticultural organisation Growcom intends to generate power from biogas from the 30% of harvested bananas in Australia which are deemed unsaleable and wasted along with leaves and plant stalks.
Growcom’s Banana Waste 2 Energy (BW2E) project aims to capture the energy in banana waste... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Indian Railways is planning to introduce biodiesel and compressed natural gas (CNG) as locomotive fuels in an attempt to cut down on pollution says.
Currently, the railways uses diesel and electricity, which is an indirect pollutant as a bulk of the country’s power capacity is coal-fired.
‘Successful trials have been carried out by using 10% blend of biodiesel on... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Just weeks after a predicted bust, UK-based energy crop developer D1 Oils has reached a conditional agreement with BP to acquire BP's 50% interest in D1-BP Fuel Crops, its joint venture with BP for the planting of jatropha.
D1 will thereby to take back sole ownership the global planting assets and interests of the joint venture.
In June the company announced it... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Texas, US-based Terrabon is working on a renewable green petrol fuel, identical to ordinary petroleum-based fuel, which can be made from organic material like cornstalks.
Terrabon has been testing a technology known as MixAlco. Developed by scientists at Texas A&M University, it uses an acid fermentation process that can convert biomass into chemicals that can be... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
While many ethanol producers are going down, California-headquartered GreenHouse Energy is going bottoms-up.
The producer is teaming-up with Karl Strauss Brewing Company to convert spent beer yeast into ethanol fuel.
Together, the two companies and the state are part of the GreenHouse Developmental Pilot Program, a distribution model being introduced first in Southern... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
For the year ended 30 April 2009 Canadian cellulosic ethanol developer Lignol made a loss of $6.2 million (€4.4 million) compared to a loss of $4.6 million in fiscal 2008.
The company has spent more on research and development attributed to the construction and start-up of operations of the company’s new fully integrated pilot plant and expansion of research and... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
In the US a lawsuit to clean up 75,000 gallons of ethanol that leaked following a train derailment in Rockford, Illinois, on 19 June has found a railway company responsible.
Canadian National Railway and its subsidiary Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, will be required by Illinois to perform the environmental cleanup of ethanol in surrounding soil and nearby waterways.... [Read More]
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