Feb 20, 2009
Bentley Motors to open Biofuels International expo & conference 2009
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Feb 19, 2009
Denmark-based renewable energy company BioGasol has received €10.4 million to help finance its 5 million litre (1.3 mgy) BornBioFuel cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant project in Bornholm, Denmark.
The sum was awarded by the Danish Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program.
BioGasol received €3.6 million from the agency in December... [Read More]
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Feb 19, 2009
Northumberland, UK-based biodiesel producer V-Fuels has entered administration owing to a combination of events borne from poor market conditions.
‘It doesn’t mean that as a site and as a business we are a dead duck. We are hoping that the business will be able to move forward, whether as V-Fuels or as another entity,’ V-Fuels site director John Moller comments.
The... [Read More]
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Feb 18, 2009
Switzerland-headquartered biodiesel producer Biopetrol has announced a major corporate restructuring, but will continue output at both its major German biodiesel plants on a short-time working basis.
The short-time basis is being prepared at its 200,000 tonne capacity biodiesel plant in Rostock alongside its previously announced short-time working basis for the 150,000... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
A palm oil processing facility will be built in the Mersey docklands, UK
London-based New Britain Palm Oils will build the plant on a six-acre site near Regent Road, Bootle.
A key factor at Merseyside was an agreement with Tate & Lyle to use existing nearby tanker storage capacity, the company says.
‘There is the deep water facility ideal for our tankers and... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
RWE Innogy and the Westphalia-Lippe Agricultural Association (WLV) have announced plans to construct and operate biogas plants run almost entirely on liquid manure.
The project will take place in Münster, Germany.
The fermentation residues that are created during the production of biogas will be processed in a newly developed, complex process.
All that will remain... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
Praj Industries’ cellulosic ethanol pilot plant at Praj Matrix in India has successfully demonstrated production of ethanol from corn cobs and sugarcane bagasse under varying operating conditions.
A new laboratory facility at Praj Matrix, the company’s research and development centre in Pune, India, began working on the company’s process in April 2008.
The Praj... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
According to The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of organic material per year that could be used to produce biogas.
Around 90 million tonnes of this material comes from manure and slurry.
Defra is launching a task force to help farmers and the water industry meet goals to produce energy from anaerobic... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
Solid Energy’s subsidiary Biodiesel New Zealand is proceeding with its development plans, increasing capacity at its existing Christchurch facility to 4 million litres a year, but reconsidering stage two of its plans.
In recognition of the economic conditions, the company is reviewing its next planned step to 15 million litres a year.
During 2009 Biodiesel New Zealand... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Sudan's first ethanol plant, state-owned Kenana Sugar Co.'s (KSC), is due to begin operations at the end of March.
Situated within the KSC complex, 250km south of Khartoum, the plant is expected to produce about 61 million litres a year of alcohol from molasses made in the country.
The plant was built by Brazil's Dedini Industrias de Base.
KSC is contracted... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Texas-based Earth Biofuels has finalised funds for upgrades to its 10 mgy Oklahoma biodiesel production facility.
The transaction includes the acquisition of more than 350 storage tanks, with capacities ranging from 8,000 to 39,000 gallons.
Approximately 30 of the tanks will be installed at the company’s Durant facility with a total storage capacity of more than 1... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Swedish power utility Vattenfall plans to convert its power plant facilities in Denmark to use large quantities of biomass fuel instead of coal.
Project MaxBio will replace up to 724,000 tonnes of coal a year, beginning in 2018. As a result, it will prevent at least 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
According to the company,... [Read More]
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Feb 12, 2009
Wales’ Environment Minister Jane Davidson announced £26 million (€29.3 million) of new funding for innovative technology which turns waste into biogas.
The sum will go to local authorities across Wales to help them develop anaerobic digestion plants as an alternative to landfill.
Anaerobic digestion speeds up the natural breakdown of waste from years to days by... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2009
The US could produce enough ethanol to displace nearly a third of all petrol use by 2030, a study by New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors concludes.
The researchers found that annual ethanol production from plant waste and energy crops could reach 90 billion gallons by that date, with 75 billion gallons coming from cellulosic feedstocks such... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Bharat Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of India’s state-owned oil company Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), will invest Rs.21.31 billion (€335 million) in a biodiesel project in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The project will use jatropha as feedstock.
BPCL will work in five districts: Kanpur, Jhansi, Laltpur, Chitrakoot and Sultanpur.
The company expects the project to start by... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Biorefining technology company Chempolis has commissioned a third-generation biorefinery demonstration plant in Oulu, Finland.
With a total investment of €15 million the biorefinery is expected to reach full production during Q2.
‘The demonstration plant represents the third-generation because it can use the entire vegetable matter and produce a number of biomass-based... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Japanese companies including Nippon Oil and Toyota will establish a research body to develop next-generation cellulose-derived biofuels.
The consortium has set the target of producing 250,000 kilolitres (1.6 million barrels) of ethanol by March 2014, at 40 yen (€0.03) per litre (about €54 a barrel) by 2015.
The other firms in the project are Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,... [Read More]
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