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At around 11am on 20 April 2011, a tanker transporting ethanol in Cheatham County, Tennessee in the US was involved in a crash, which left the vehicle overturned and leaking the fuel onto the Interstate 24.
Both the eastbound and westbound lanes were closed as teams threw sand over the spill to contain it. The spill was later contained but the cleanup continued.
It was reported that a car and a…
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Biodiesel producer Sirona Fuels began selling biodiesel produced from locally-grown feedstocks on 22 April 2011.
The move will see its customers purchase the fuel for $0.25 (€0.17) less per gallon than the cost of fossil diesel.
In addition, when local businesses give their used cooking oil to the Sircona facility, 20% of what the biodiesel sells for will be donated to The Sircona Cares…
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has developed technology for ethanol fuel production which complies with the standards set by the Japanese Automotive Standards Organisation (JASO), from lignocellulose (soft cellulose) such as rice straw and barley straw.
The Japanese government, academia and the agricultural and industrial sectors in Hyogo Prefecture, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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In the US, Tidewater Biodiesel is one step closer towards building its biodiesel plant in the state of Virginia.
The company has been granted planning approval from the local commission. Construction can now get underway once the final approval is given by Chesapeake's city council.
Upon completion, scheduled for 2012, the facility will produce 10 million gallons a year of biodiesel from waste…
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In Argentina, 26% of the nations soya crop was used for the production of biodiesel, according to a study by the Consorcios Regionales de Experimentacion Agricola (CREA).
Argentina manufactured 2.6 million tonnes of biodiesel last year and as a result consumed 14 million tonnes of the total 55 million tonnes of soya cultivated.
In 2010 Argentina sold 1.1 million tonnes of its biodiesel…
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In the US, renewable fuels company Cobalt Technologies and biorefinery technology firm American Process (API) have partnered to build an industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery for the production of biobutanol.
In addition, the two companies have also agreed to jointly market a GreenPower+ Biobutanol solution that will convert biomass into power.
GreenPower+ Biobutanol technology converts part of…
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The EU's goal of slashing greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 35% can be met through utilising jatropha, according to sustainability consultants Partners for Innovation and its independent report.
Designed by the Jatropha Alliance and Sun Biofuels, the study highlights how Sun Biofuels Mozambique could save 39% of GHGs compared to fossil fuels if the jatropha-derived biodiesel was produced in the UK.
The…
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In a bid to encourage the use of biogas across China, Austria's GE Energy is to supply its Jenbacher biogas engine technology to power China's largest ethanol production plant, which is currently under construction in the city of Nan Yang, Henan Province.
Owned and operated by Henan Tianguan Group, the new ethanol plant will produce 500,000m3 of biogas a day, from organic material such as…
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In Peru, biodiesel producer Heaven Petroleum Operators SAC is to invest $186 million (€130 million) in jatropha cultivation.
Heaven Petroleum's subsidiary Bio Agro Heaven del Sur SAC will develop the project, which will take place on 50,000 hectares of land in Ica region.
The jatropha grown under the project will then be used in the production of biodiesel at the company's biodiesel plant in…
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In Mount Vernon, Indiana, US, ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy's ethanol plant was officially opened on 6 April 2011.
The news comes after construction came to an end when Aventine became bankrupt. However it recovered in March 2010 and construction on the Mount Vernon facility commenced.
Building work on the project finished in November 2010 and operations began on 1 December 2010.…
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'Renewable energy systems', as defined in the Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP), will now also include flexible fuel pumps, which the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will fund the installation of.
The new rule, which was announced by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on 8 April 2011, is expected to encourage more installations of these 'blender pumps', which in turn will provide…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to award bioenergy and biobased products with research grants in order to further the development of sustainable projects.
After the selection process, the chosen projects will implement sustainable regional systems for the production of biofuels.
The projects to receive the grant aree based in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia,…
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In Dunaföldvár, Hungary, a US-Irish collaboration is due to finish the construction of its ethanol production facility by 1 March 2012.
Costing $200 million (€139 million) to build, the plant is being developed by Pannonia Ethanol, a joint venture between Minnesota, US-based Fagen and Irish company Europe Ethanol.
Upon completion, the plant will manufacture 240 million litres of…
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M&G, a Novozymes partner, conducted the groundbreaking ceremony for an ethanol plant on 12 April 2011.
Located in Crescentino, Italy, the production facility will produce 13 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol from wheat straw, energy crops and other forms of biomass. It is due to start production in 2012.
'Laying the foundation for the world's first commercial-scale ethanol plant…
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Energy supplier Sprague Energy of White Plains, New York, in the US, and privately owned Biodico have launched a pilot programme – Bio Genset – that will encourage the use of biodiesel and biodiesel blends in diesel-powered generators and power units, with a goal to reduce emissions from diesel fuel generators, decrease the dependence on foreign oil and promote local jobs.
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