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The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group will host a meeting on 6 July at the House of Commons in London starting at 16:30 p.m. The role of the All-Party Group is to provide a forum for parliamentarians and other interested parties to generate informed discussion on the role of all renewable transport fuels, including biofuels, hydrogen, and electric vehicles in…
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Choren Industries’ new generation biomass biofuel plant is expected to begin initial commercial production in 2010. The plant is being built in Freiberg, Germany, with a capacity to produce around 15,000 tonnes of biomass-to-liquid (BTL) fuels largely using wood products and wood-based waste. Germany is among the first European countries building test plants to produce commercial volumes of…
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US, New Jersey-based Garden State Ethanol has selected a landfill site in Woodbine, Philadelphia, for the location of a $200 million (€142 million) biofuel plant that would use more than 100 bioreactor tanks to convert algae into ethanol and biodiesel oil. An environmental study has cleared the site over the threat to any endangered species and a site analysis is planned, nearby rail lines are…
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ReNvision Biofuels has secured the services of SRS Engineering to build it a 10 million gallons per year biodiesel multi-feedstock plant in, Alberta, Canada. SRS Engineering will provide the complete design and engineering services and the equipment required to build this biodiesel plant. The project will use a number of feedstocks that are available locally, including animal fats, canola and…
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Pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced the first successful commercial shipment of biodiesel to be transported through a pipeline in the US. The shipment saw a 5% biodiesel blend transported from Mississippi to Georgia, and from Mississippi to Virginia, via the Plantation Pipe Line Company, jointly owned by Kinder Morgan (51%) and Exxon Mobil (49%). December 2008 saw…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to extend the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels. The proposed changes to the 2007 US Renewable Fuel Standard attempt to make production of corn-based ethanol more efficient and increase output of advanced biofuels. The comment period on the rule (RFS2) has been extended by 60 days, from…
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Drawing on the success of Biofuels International expo & conference in Europe in 2008 & 2009, leading global publication Biofuels International magazine is pleased to announce its first Biofuels International Canada expo & conference. The two day conference and exhibition on 28 - 29 October 2009 in Montreal is designed to coincide with Canada's biofuel mandate which takes effect…
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The NASA Glenn Research Center and Israel-based marine microalgae developer Seambiotic's US subsidiary are developing a collaborative R&D programme for optimisation of open-pond microalgae growth processes for biofuels production. The goal of the agreement is to make use of NASA’s expertise in large scale computational modelling and combine it with Seambiotic’s biological process…
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In the US, the Ethanol Emergency Response Coalition (EERC) has compiled and released the Complete Training Guide for Ethanol Emergency Response, to help prepare ethanol producers, transporters and first responders who may experience or come in contact with an ethanol-related emergency. This complete training package includes two videos, an instructor’s guide, interactive workshops and seven…
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Biomass-to-energy company Chemrec is evaluating possible sites in the state of Georgia, US, for developing integrated fuels-from-the-forest black liquor gasification biorefineries at pulp and paper mills. Chemrec biorefineries transform mills into producers of biofuels or biochemicals or even green electricity and power. Georgia with more than 24 million acres of forestland, only Oregon in the…
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The European Commission has approved the proposed creation of a biobutanol production technology joint venture between BP Biofuels and US chemical manufacturer DuPont, resulting in a dual takeover of US company Biobutanol LLC. The companies are on track to develop a biobutanol production plant in the UK. It will begin as a 420 million litre a year ethanol plant with operations expected mid-2010…
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Ukraine-based Landkom International, a producer of oilseed rape and wheat, has signed an agreement with Sunfuel Ukraine, a Ukrainian specialist biofuels group to cover the sale, processing and development of a new non edible oil seed variant for biodiesel, known as Isis. Landkom and Sunfuel have jointly tested Isis in Ukraine, Europe and South Africa with leading universities and commercial fuel…
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BP Biofuels, a subsidiary of UK energy giant BP, and US agri-tech company DuPont have formed Butamax Advanced Biofuels to accelerate biobutanol commercialisation. BP and DuPont have conducted four years of extensive technology development and fuel testing. The technology demonstration facility located at the BP Saltend site in Hull, UK, is planned to be operational in 2010. The first…
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