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Brazilian energy business Petrobras and state-owned company Embrapa are to develop new technology for sugarcane production to eventually benefit the ethanol market. The two companies signed a technical cooperation agreement in late November aimed towards sugarcane production in Rio Grande do Sul. The project is backed by an investment of BR$ 5.5 million (€1.7 million) and has been approved…
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US-based Greenleaf Biofuels produced its one millionth gallon of biodiesel at the end of October this year. The milestone came since commercial production at its New Haven Terminal location in Connecticut began in the summer. The fuel will primarily be blended into the region’s heating oil supply enabling consumers to heat their homes and businesses with a product which has been shown…
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A lecturer in transportation engineering at the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland believes Irish motorists could be relying on feedstock like sea lettuce to fuel their cars in the future. Jerry Murphy, who has a PhD in energy production from waste, has presented the potential for biomethane produced from slurry and grass via anaerobic digestion. This could help the country meet directives…
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German biodiesel quality association AGQM has completed an oxidation stability study of biodiesel created from rapeseed oil using various additives and storage conditions. It spent nine months storing biodiesel under both ideal and realistic storage conditions, blended with four conventional oxidation stabilisers. Sampling took place every month and measurements were taken on oxidation stability,…
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A new study by the Imperial College, London, has suggested that bamboo ethanol may be a promising alternative to petrol. According to the research, published in Biotechnology for Biofuels, the composition of bamboo is similar to energy grasses that are used in biofuel production, including switchgrass. Bamboo, the researchers highlight, has a cell wall that comprises cellulose, lignin and…
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Simadan Holding is to invest over €65 million ($89.2 million) in a new second generation biodiesel plant in the Netherlands to increase capacity for growth in the waste-to-biofuels market. The plant will be located in Amsterdam and operated by Simadan subsidairy Biodiesel Amsterdam. The company claims the plant will enable it to increase its biodiesel production capacity by…
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A company based in Pilbara, western Australia that recycles cooking oil from mining camps to make biofuel has announced plans to begin developing cleaning products from glycerol. The Ashburton Aboriginal Corp. launched its subsidiary biodiesel company, AshOil, in 2010 after investigating alternative fuel sources in light of rising diesel costs. Used cooking oil for biodiesel production is…
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Florida-based Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA) will initiate trial production runs of jatropha-based biodiesel to verify its processes and procedures. The trials will be conducted in three phases, the first of which is set to begin before the New Year. AFA will be using feedstock from its plantation in Costa Rica and the biodiesel produced will be used for testing and marketing…
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PGF Biofuels, in conjunction with Paterson Grain, has become the first Canadian organisation to receive Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) certification. The certification is for Resonance carinata, an oilseed crop well adapted to production in semi-arid regions with an oil profile PGF says is ideally suited for use in the renewable aviation and biodiesel fuel industries. Andrew B.…
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Germany-based BDI-Bioenergy International has announced the ‘successful’ start-up of the ‘biggest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant’ in France. The facility, worth €16.4 million ($22.5 million) and handed over to Estener, uses category one animal fats and used cooking oil as feedstock and has a capacity of 75,000 tonnes per year. The project was completed within 11…
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Global science-based company Royal DSM has announced that together with Denmark-based DONG Energy it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale. DONG Energy, through its subsidiary Inbicon, develops technology for conversion and refining of soft ligno-cellulosic biomass into fuel, feed, and green chemistry products. DSM says the combined…
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a €65 million ($89.3 million) loan to support Biochemtex, an engineering subsidiary of second generation biofuel production technology provider Mossi and Ghisolfi Group.Biochemtex’s 2013-2016 investment programme will look into ways to improve technologies for converting non-food biomass to biofuels and other chemical molecules with…
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German biodiesel exports have rocketed this year, according to the German Federal Statistical Office (GFSO). The GFSO puts foreign sales between January and September 2013 at 1.1 million tonnes (330 million gallons), almost 14% up on the same period in 2012. Imports have dropped by one quarter from the previous year, to 446,833 tonnes (134.1 million gallons). Export surplus amounted to over…
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