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At Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol and KLM have started fuelling some of their ground transport vehicles on 100% biodiesel (B100).
The move comes after both companies invested heavily in the introduction of biofuel-powered vehicles at the airport, as electrically powered vehicles are currently limited to certain vehicle types.
SkyNRG of the Netherlands is supplying the biodiesel to Schiphol and KLM,…
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Both the ethanol and biodiesel global markets continued to grow in 2010 with biofuels production up 17%, compared to a 10% rise in 2009. This is according to a report on 2010 biofuel production by US research company Worldwatch Institute.
Ethanol remains the most widely produced biofuel; of the 105 billion litres produced in 2010, 86 billion litres was made up of ethanol.
In recent years a number…
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An ethanol plant auctioned on 24 August in the US failed to sell for more than the starting bid due to its high selling price and complications associated with it.
Primary lender Cape Fear Farm Credit bid $34.5 million (€24.5 million) for the Raeford, North Carolina-based Clean Burn Fuels, anticipating a higher bidder would end up acquiring it. However this was not the case and Cape Fear is…
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Aurora Algae, a US and Australia-based company dedicated to algae development, has received $22 million (€15.7 million) in its latest funding round.
Current investor Oak Investment Partners led the round, along with other existing investors and an unnamed foreign strategic investor. To date, Aurora Algae has raised $72 million.
These latest funds will help finance the construction of Aurora…
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In the US, an idled biodiesel production facility in Moundville, Alabama, has become the most recent in a long line of soya-based biodiesel plants to close down in the region.
In 2008, five biodiesel plants of this kind were operational in Alabama, however only one large-scale plant remains today – Creaola. Green River Biodiesel acquired the facility in 2008 but by 2009 most of its workers…
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Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE), a Utah, US-based biodiesel producer, has begun operations at its new biodiesel production facility in Plymouth, after 12 months of development and construction.
The plant has the capacity to manufacture 10 million gallons a year of biodiesel from feedstocks such as yellow grease, brown grease and tallow. WRE will source these feedstocks from grease and tallow…
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General Electric (GE) is the newest member of a consortium set up to research and develop biomass-based aviation fuel.
In addition to GE, the association consists of Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil, the Future Farm Industries CRC and Dynamotive Energy Systems, of Canada. Together the companies are looking to mallee eucalypt trees as a feedstock for producing commercial quantities of bio-jet…
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US ethanol exports could exceed exports from Brazil throughout the rest of this year, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This is due to relaxed trading limitations and the soaring cost of sugar.
The first five months of 2011 saw US ethanol exports more than double, compared to the same period in 2010. By May 2011, export levels had reached 120 million gallons.
'For the…
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Denmark's Danish Biofuel has been renamed in order to reflect the 'proud Danish tradition for the processing of agricultural products'.
The company's new name, hveiti a/s, means 'wheat' in Old Norse.
However, as Svend Brandstrup, hveiti's managing director, says: 'The production concept remains the same as always, but with the name change, we get a name that more accurately reflects our concept…
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Energy company Dong Energy, along with local companies, is developing a consortium called Måbjerg Energy Concept.
The consortium has been established to examine the feasibility of bioenergy projects and determine which ones will be profitable. These projects include building new plants and upgrading existing ones.
All the projects will utilise locally sourced biomass and waste materials to…
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Global Petroleum will begin transporting ethanol to its Revere, Massachusetts-based blending terminal by trains comprising 60 cars, starting in 2012.
Two trains per week will be used to transport the biofuel, and with each car carrying 29,000 gallons of ethanol, this amounts to almost 3.6 million gallons a week.
Currently, the majority of ethanol-blended petrol enters Massachusetts by ship or…
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Honeywell UOP, a key player in the development of process technology for the refining, petrochemical and natural gas industries, has broken ground on a biofuels demonstration unit in Hawaii, US.
The biorefinery will handle cellulosic biomass, forest residuals and algae to produce biofuels for the transportation industry, upgrading biomass into renewable petrol, diesel and jet fuel.
The project…
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In Nigeria, Nosak Distilleries, part of the Nosak Group, is looking to increase its supply of ethanol from 350,000 litres a day to 540,000 litres at its production plant in Lagos.
The company is also planning to build a new facility in Calabar, Cross River, which will produce 150,000 litres a day of ethanol when it comes online.
Nosak Distilleries' first plant began operations in 2001 and today…
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In Minnesota, US, biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group (REG) commenced production at the newly acquired REG Albert Lea plant.
REG purchased the facility earlier this year after it stood idle for three years prior.
REG sold the first truckload of biodiesel on 25 August to the Trail's Travel Center in Albert Lea. The biodiesel is available via truck and rail from the new facility.
'We are…
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In Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, Rosemount Clean Energies has converted a 50-acre industrial site into a large terminal facility that will provide biodiesel blending.
The terminal features a large-scale rail spur and storage capacity of almost 500,000 million barrels, and can receive and ship products via rail, trucks, tanks and pipeline.
'Biofuels are here to stay,' Tim Yocum, chief manager of…
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AltAir Fuels, a Washington, US-based company dedicated to the production of jet fuel, is developing a bio-jet production plant in Bakersfield, California.
The facility is slated to come online towards the end of 2012, when it will produce bio-jet fuel from camelina.
Local farmers in San Joaquin County, Central Valley and other areas of southern California are now being encouraged by the US Farm…
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