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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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Car manufacturer Volkswagen has partnered with biofuels companies Solazyme and Amyris to evaluate the amount of emissions produced from biodiesel in order to show the environmental benefits. Volkswagen is to supply the companies with two cars – the 2012 Passat TDI and 2012 Jetta TDI – so that they can examine the effects the fuels will have on the Volkswagen clean diesel technology…
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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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A white paper has been released, detailing the extent and impact the advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals industry in the future on the region of Minnesota, US. The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, the association behind the research, says the demand for safer materials, volatile petroleum prices and policies requiring consumption of advanced biofuels will all affect the domestic growth of…
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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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Commodities company ED & F Man has signed an agreement with BioMCN to source, risk manage and deliver crude glycerine from Argentina. BioMCN, the second biggest second generation biofuels producer in the world, produces and sells biomethanol from sustainable renewable resources including glycerine. Argentina is quickly becoming the world’s largest producer of biodiesel and its residue…
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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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Algae-based green oil producer, Sapphire Energy, has closed its final round of Series C investment funding, raising $144 million (€108 million). Not all of the investors were disclosed but those that were included Arrowpoint Partners and Monsanto. Including this funding round, Sapphire Energy has now raised a total of $300 million from public and private sources. The money raised will be put…
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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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The first test run of B100 Marine Microalgal Biodiesel has been carried out at the CSIR headquarters in New Delhi, India. Last year the government successfully tested B20 biodiesel derived from marine microalgal and these most recent tests follow further developments. For the test, a regular vehicle was powered by the B100 biodiesel for 200km and the government says it wants to invest in future…
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Energy company Kinder Morgan has completed the build on its 16” ethanol pipeline between its unit train facility in Linden, New Jersey in the US, and its New York Harbor terminal in Carteret, New Jersey. The pipeline has a full automation and a state-of-the-art leak detection system. The terminal in Linden handles about 36,000 barrels of ethanol a day, storing 550,000 barrels through the…
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Energy company Maple Energy has opened its ethanol plant in Peru, although its electric power generation facilities are not yet open. The company is harvesting and processing sugarcane, which it will turn into ethanol in its new facility. Throughout this year, the amount of sugarcane that will be harvested and processed in the plant will grow during the second quarter. The power operations are…
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The Watsonville Planning Commission has approved use and design permits for a new biodiesel production facility in California. The plant, which will be owned by North Star Biofuels, will be run by seven local residents and produce 65,000 gallons a day of biodiesel. The project will be built on 19,000 sq ft and follows developments at the company’s test facility which has been producing…
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