Mar 16, 2012
Decrease in throughput of biofuels
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Mar 12, 2012
The refining and marketing venture jointly owned by affiliates of Shell and Saudi Aramco, Motiva Enterprises (Motiva), is planning to convert its High Sulfur Diesel Heating Oil (2000 ppm) to Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULDS) (15 ppm) at its 5,000,000+ barrel Sewaren Terminal, located in New Jersey.
The conversion has been prompted by a State of New York mandate which... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2012
JOil, a scientific bioenergy crop developer of a new generation of jatropha, has achieved first-year yields in its India field trials of over 2 tons of seeds per hectare.
'Our [JO S1 and JO S2] seedlings started flowering three months after planting and in five months yielded their first harvest of fruit. Most current jatropha plants have no fruiting in the first year... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2012
LAN Airlines and Air BP Copec have joined together to conduct a commercial flight demonstration between the Chilean cities of Santiago and Concepcion, using biofuels.
An Airbus from the A320 family with CFM56-5B motors was powered with fuel from refined vegetable oil and illustrates a positive step towards sustainable commercial use of biofuels in South America.
Second... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2012
Brazilian ethanol producer, Usina de Acucar Santa Terezinha, is to invest 500 million reais (€215.56 million) in sugar-cane plantations and a mill.
The first phase of a cane project situated in the state of Mato Grosso is expected to be completed by 2015. The company will also be investing in its 8 existing mills, developing plantations for each.
This project,... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2012
Cobalt Technologies has successfully demonstrated of one of its advanced biocatalysts in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which forms part of the US Department of Energy. Cobalt completed multiple fermentation campaigns in a 9,000 litre fermenter, exceeding the target yield and other performance metrics for a commercial scale facility.... [Read More]
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Mar 7, 2012
Developer of next generation n-butanol, Cobalt Technologies, has successfully demonstrated its biomass pretreatment process.
The dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment process, which is the initial step for converting sugars into n-butanol, was tested in cooperation with Andritz, supplier of technologies, equipment and plants for pulp and paper industries. The process, which... [Read More]
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Mar 6, 2012
Energy investment group Energae has signed a purchase agreement, which would see them buy Northeast Energy's closed facility in Grafton, US. The company reportedly intends to start sourcing potential investors within the next few weeks, and any money raised will be put towards facility refurbishment.
The former Alchem Ethanol plant, which closed in 2007, is expected... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2012
Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding (RATCH) has announced it will take a 40% stake in Songkhla Biofuel. Precise Power Producer already holds a 40% shareholding in the company, and Assiddeek Savings Cooperative a 20% shareholding.
Songkhla Biofuel is to guarantee the supply of 300-370 tonnes of biomass residues per day to the Songkhla Biomass Power Station in... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2012
The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) has conducted a new survey of more than 380 US algae industry contacts, which shows algae companies to be increasing production in 2012. The research also suggests that algae biofuels are expected to be price-competitive with petroleum fuels by 2020, and also that stable and effective Federal policy would accelerate production and... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2012
The Andersons has signed an agreement to acquire an ethanol production facility in Denison, Iowa from its owners, the Amaizing Energy Denison and Amaizing Energy Holding Company. The transaction, which remains subject to several contingencies, is anticipated to close in the second quarter.
If acquired, The Andersons Denison Ethanol, a wholly owned subsidiary of The... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2012
Recent analysis of the biofuels industry by ecoprog GmbH has suggested a probable 40 new production plants will be constructed in Europe in the next 5 years, regardless of the existing import pressure and national overcapacities.
In early 2012, approximately 380 biofuel plants with a production capacity of 1,050 petajoules were operational in the European Economic... [Read More]
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Feb 29, 2012
A team of chemists are investigating the potential improvements genetic mutations in plants could make to the conversion of cellulosic biomass to biofuels.
The study is being led by Seth DeBolt, an associate professor of horticulture at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department ... [Read More]
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Feb 29, 2012
Shell has built a drop-in biofuels pilot plant in Texas, based on Virent's bioforming technology.
Shell invested in Virent in June 2010, aiding the opening of the Virent 'Eagle' demonstration plant, producing 10,000 gallons per year of the drop-in renewable fuel, biogasoline.
The biofuels pilot plant has been constructed at Shell's Westhollow Technology Center in... [Read More]
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Feb 29, 2012
China Petroleum & Chemical, also known as Sinopec, has applied to China's aviation regulator with the aim to produce aviation biofuel commercially.
China is reportedly expected to use 12 million metric tons of aviation biofuel a year by 2020. This will equal about 30% of projected total jet fuel consumption, which in itself is predicted to double to 40 million... [Read More]
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Feb 29, 2012
New research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory could see Tobacco become the new biofuel. A team at Berkeley is aiming to use microbial fermentation to convert the hydrocarbon molecules from tobacco directly into a fuel.
'We want to bypass downstream processes like fermentation and produce fuels directly in the crop,' says Christer Jansson, a biochemist at Berkeley.... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
The Australian Government has awarded a $5 million (€4 million) grant to James Cook University, funding the development of Australia's first freshwater and marine macro-algae to biofuels project. Not only this, but a new $15 million (12 million) Advanced Biofuels Investment Readiness (ABIR) Program has been created. ABIR Program is designed to support the investment... [Read More]
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