Aug 17, 2012
Ineos bioethanol plant step closer to commercial realisation
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Aug 17, 2012
The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit has sided with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its partial waiver approval for E15 ethanol fuel for model year 2001 and newer light duty vehicles and all flex-fuel vehicles.
Those vehicles represent nearly two-thirds of all vehicles on the road and almost 75% of vehicle miles driven.
Since the initial... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co., a unit of petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec Group), is looking to convert waste cooking oil into jet fuel, The Economic Observer reports.
The company has been investigating the potential of green jet fuel since 2009 and recently it successfully produced renewable aviation kerosene... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
A research team at the University of Missouri has been awarded a multi-million grant to study ways of obtaining alternative biofuels without further impacting food supply.
The $5.4 million (€4.4 million) grant was awarded by the US Department of Energy and will be used to further study non-food biofuel crops, like switchgrass.
“In the 10 states along the Missouri... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
Global biotech company Novozymes claims to have developed a microorganism that aids the production of bio-based malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil.
Malic acid is used as a flavour enhancer in the food industry and can also be converted into other chemical derivatives used for a variety of plastic, polymer and resin products.
‘This is our first... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) and BioJet International have formed a strategic alliance to further the development of biojet fuel.
BioJet International is a supply chain integrator in renewable (bio)jet fuel and related co-products which include green diesel for the aviation and related commercial transportation sectors.
In 2011 BioJet received a $1.2 billion... [Read More]
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Aug 15, 2012
The Renewable Energy Group (REG) has posted several positive figures following its financial results for second quarter 2012.
REG posted $271.9 million (€220.4 million) revenue for the second quarter, an increase of 39% compared to revenues of $196.3 million for the same period in 2011. Second quarter 2012 adjusted EBITDA was $26.5 million, an increase of 3% compared... [Read More]
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Aug 15, 2012
Renewable products company Amyris, in collaboration with its partners as part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC), has produced renewable farnesene (biofene) via fermenting lingo-cellulosic sugars.
Amyris is leading the NABC’s Fermentation of Ligno-cellulosic Sugars (FLS) strategy and has aimed to merge its isoprenoid-yeast platform with the ability... [Read More]
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Aug 15, 2012
Peru-based energy company Maple Energy has completed its first ethanol transaction with global investment and trading business Mitsui Group.
Maple’s first export sale of fuel-grade ethanol was for approximately 1.56 million gallons, which Mitsui will then pass on to one of its European customers.
‘We are delighted with our first export sale of ethanol to the... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Bio-based chemicals developer Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia, a specialty chemicals company, will together build and operate a biobutanol demonstration plant in Brazil.
The two companies are working together to eventually construct a commercial-scale biorefinery. This facility will be fitted with Cobalt's technology, producing bio n-butanol from Brazilian bagasse and other... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Parts 79 and 80 registration to Ineos New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), a joint venture between Ineos Bio and New Planet BioEnergy, for the production and sale of bioethanol from non-food waste materials.
This notice of registration comes as building of the Indian River BioEnergy Center has finished and is going through... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Bioethanol producer Ensus has announced the restarting of its £300 million bioethanol plant in Teeside, UK by the end of August after a 15-month enforced shutdown.
The move follows the closure of a loophole in the tariff system by the European Union’s Customs Code Committee which allowed imports of subsidised US product to distort the market. Coupled with the... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2012
Second generation ethanol producer Fulcrum BioEnergy has been awarded a $105 million (€85 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture.
The finalisation of the loan guarantee, which was awarded to the company's Sierra BioFuels Plant to be built in Storey County in Nevada, US, means Fulcrum will secure bank financing. This, combined with Fulcrum's... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2012
Biodiesel producer and marketer, REG, has signed an agreement with independent energy logistics company Maxum Petroleum that will see it supply biodiesel at its Rancho Dominguez terminal near Long Beach, California.
Under the supply agreement, Maxum will begin offering REG-9000 biodiesel in mid-August, when it will be available to petroleum jobbers or large fleets.
'This... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2012
Commodity management firm Gavilon has become the exclusive ethanol marketer for Advanced BioEnergy's three facilities located in Fairmont, Nebraska; and Aberdeen and Huron, South Dakota.
The announcement was made after subsidiaries of the Gavilon Group entered into multi-service commercial agreements with subsidiaries of Advanced BioEnergy.
Under the terms of the agreement,... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2012
Algae cultivation technology provider Solix BioSystems has finalised a £20 million (€25 million) round of funding and can now begin building its inaugural commercial plant.
The new large-scale plant, the location for which has not yet been decided, will grow algae biomass that can then be used for the production of biofuels and animal feed.
Solix already operates... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2012
Biodiesel producer Methes Energies Canada's newly retrofitted biodiesel plant will be officially opened on 10 August – International Biodiesel Day.
The Sombra, Ontario-based plant is able to produce 13 million gallons a year of biodiesel from mostly cooking oil and animal fat, although it is able to handle a variety of different feedstocks.
Methes Energies began... [Read More]
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