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Danisco has seen a verdict given against it in a patent infringement case against competitor Novozymes reviewed and changed. A district court in Wisconsin, US has overturned a ruling from October 2011 that sided with Novozymes which claimed Danisco, part of DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DIB), had infringed on one of its US biofuel enzymes patents. With the new ruling, the court has found…
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German waste to biodiesel producer Petrotec has announced increased sales of 27% compared to Q1 2011 and also expanded its operations into Spain. The overall group generated revenues of €42.1 million ($54.4 million) and an operating profit of €600,000 EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Tax) in the first three months of 2012, up a third from the same time last year. A statement from…
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US-based producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels Pacific Ethanol (PE) has reported a first quarter loss of $5 million (€3.8 million) compared to a small profit of $18 million for the three-month period a year earlier. However PE also boosted its year-on-year revenue by 14% and increased total gallons of ethanol sold by 36% over the same quarter last year, meaning a total of 114.8…
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Crop technology provider for biofuel production company Agrisoma is working with several partners to test a new kind of jet biofuel in Canada. Along with Honeywell UOP, the Canadian National Research Council and the Genome Prairie project, Agrisoma is road-testing a fuel blend derived from its Brassica carinata (Ethiopian mustard) variety Resonance. ‘Brassica carinata is drought and heat…
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Provider of small modular bioenergy systems Community Power Corporation (CPC) has produced ‘drop-in’ diesel and aviation fuels from wood chips and other waste biomass materials with a new system. CPC’s LiquiMax uses a proprietary enhanced Fischer-Tropsch process, housed in 20” shipping containers, which converts the nitrogen-diluted syngas produced by its biomass…
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The local Department of Corrections has signed a deal with Biodiesel New Zealand so that it can supply the biofuels company with used cooking oil (UCO) from 18 of its prison kitchens across the country. Rather than being thrown into landfill, the New Zealand corrections department will supply about 5,000 litres a month of UCO to the biodiesel company so that it can continue to produce its Biogold…
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Boeing and All Nippon Airways have flown a 787 Dreamliner aircraft on biofuels from the Boeing Delivery Center in Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport. In the first ever biofuel flight crossing the Pacific ocean the plane flew on a mixture of biofuel derived from used cooking oil and conventional fuel, cutting about 30% of the CO₂ emissions usually produced. However, the companies say…
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Honeywell is to test its Green Jet Fuel under a programme that uses a biofeedstock that has been designed especially for biofuel production. Along with the National Research Council of Canada and Agrisoma Biosciences, test flights will be conducted in Canada along with in-flight emissions collection from an aircraft that will follow behind the plane. This will allow for the fuel’s…
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NASA has demonstrated a new way to grow algae, clean wastewater, capture CO₂ and then produce feedstock that can be used for biofuels production, without the need for water, fertiliser or land use. The algae cultivation system has been dubbed the Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA) and will be release for commercial use in May 2012. An OMEGA system on a smaller scale was built by NASA…
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Food production company Universal Robina’s board of directors has approved an ethanol development which will complement the company’s sugar business. The company says the development will allow the business to ‘maximise the productive usage of its resources’. The plant, which will be built in the Philippines, is expected to cost about P27 million (€480,000) is will…
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Biofuels solutions provider, Lincoln Energy Solutions (LES), is constructing new storage tanks at their facility in Belton, South Carolina. The tanks will increase the facility's ethanol storage capacity by 1.5 million gallons and its biodiesel capacity by 400,000 gallons. To meet the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, a 225,000-gallon water tank is also being constructed. The…
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San Carlos Bioenergy (SCBI) is putting delayed plans to expand their ethanol facility in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental into action. The expansion will see the company's ethanol production reach over 40 million litres per year, an increase of 10 million litres from its current annual production figures. Original plans were delayed after SCBI's initial expansion proposal in 2009 due to various…
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A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Italian power company Enel to build a 1-5MW concentrated solar power and biomass bi-generation plant, which will produce electricity for the city of Rome. Italy's agency for new technologies, Enea, and Rome's local authority Roma Capitale, which will be backing the porject also signed the agreement. Enel will build and manage the Trebois plant as…
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