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Food production company Universal Robina’s board of directors has approved an ethanol development which will complement the company’s sugar business.
The company says the development will allow the business to ‘maximise the productive usage of its resources’.
The plant, which will be built in the Philippines, is expected to cost about P27 million (€480,000) is will…
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NASA has demonstrated a new way to grow algae, clean wastewater, capture CO₂ and then produce feedstock that can be used for biofuels production, without the need for water, fertiliser or land use.
The algae cultivation system has been dubbed the Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA) and will be release for commercial use in May 2012.
An OMEGA system on a smaller scale was built by NASA…
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Honeywell is to test its Green Jet Fuel under a programme that uses a biofeedstock that has been designed especially for biofuel production.
Along with the National Research Council of Canada and Agrisoma Biosciences, test flights will be conducted in Canada along with in-flight emissions collection from an aircraft that will follow behind the plane. This will allow for the fuel’s…
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The local Department of Corrections has signed a deal with Biodiesel New Zealand so that it can supply the biofuels company with used cooking oil (UCO) from 18 of its prison kitchens across the country.
Rather than being thrown into landfill, the New Zealand corrections department will supply about 5,000 litres a month of UCO to the biodiesel company so that it can continue to produce its Biogold…
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Boeing and All Nippon Airways have flown a 787 Dreamliner aircraft on biofuels from the Boeing Delivery Center in Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport.
In the first ever biofuel flight crossing the Pacific ocean the plane flew on a mixture of biofuel derived from used cooking oil and conventional fuel, cutting about 30% of the CO₂ emissions usually produced.
However, the companies say…
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Michigan State University (MSU) is to begin installing an anaerobic digester system which will use waste from the university’s farms and dining halls, generating power for some of the buildings on the campus.
The MSU’s board of trustees has granted permission for work to begin on the project, which is expected to cost $5 million (€3.8 million), although should pay for itself…
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Following the success of the Qantas biofuel powered flight, Algae.Tec says that in the future most of the Australian biofuels could be derived from algae that is grown locally.
The biofuel flight, which saw the plane fly between Sydney and Adelaide, was powered on cooking oil-derived biodiesel which was supplied by SkyNRG. However, Algae.Tec says it would be beneficially if the biofuels could be…
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Regus Advisors has invested in Algae International so that it can build its first $2 million algae to biofuel development in California.
Regus, a private global investment banking firm, says the plant will be a large scale project will use CO₂, fuel cells, nitrates, phosphates, sunlight and algae to produce the biofuels.
Regus’ president, Mervyn Price, explains: ‘This process…
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Canadian air carrier Porter Airlines is due to fly a commercial, biofuel-powered aircraft later this month, making it the nation's first carrier to do this.
The flight comes after Porter's biofuel test flight, which took place in February earlier this year.
Porter will operate one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprop airliners on a 50/50 blend of biojet and conventional fossil aviation…
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Wilmar Indonesia, the biggest palm oil producer in the country, plans to produce palm oil-derived aviation biofuel in a plant in Gresik, East Java, thanks to an investment of around $80 million (€61 million).
Working with Elevance Renewable Sciences through its subsidiary PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, it will be the first biofuel plant for aviation fuel in Indonesia.
The company’s…
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Ice cream company Mackie’s of Scotland is building a plant that will convert its slurry into biofuel, which will be used to power the company’s Aberdeenshire facility.
Once the anaerobic digester is installed, the fairy farm in Westertown, Rothienorman, will run completely on renewable energy.
Scientists from the Edinburgh Napier University’s Biofuel Business Programme are…
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The Iowa Department of Revenue says that the biodiesel sold in 2011 was nearly twice as much that was sold in 2012.
During last year, the total amount of pure biodiesel that was sold in the state amounted to 13.9 million gallons, whereas the year before it only reached 7.4 million gallons.
In the region, where there are 13 biodiesel plants which produced 175 million gallons last year, sales of…
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Eco-Energy, an alternative energy company, says it is to build an ethanol unit train and storage facility which will distribute biofuels to the Atlanta, Georgia area in the US.
The train terminal will be able to distribute more than 400,000 barrels of ethanol a month, using its automated loading system.
The rail system will be able to receive up to 96 rail car unit trains through the CSX railroad…
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BioPower Operations, a company that grows, produces and sells biomass and its byproducts, has become a public company, listing its shares on the stock market.
The company currently has plans to produce and sell biomass oils in the short term and in the long term receive licenses to grow trees and bamboo that can also be converted into oils, biofuels, animal feed or electricity.
Robert Kohn, CEO…
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Ventura, which is a subsidy of biodiesel company Biodico, has been given a $2 million (€1.5 million) grant from the California Energy Commission and will use the funds to produce renewable energy and biodiesel at Biodico’s 10 million gallon a year facility which is being built in Port Hueneme, California.
At the facility, process heat and power will be generated through the use of…
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