Jun 15, 2010
ADM receives clean DoE grant
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Jun 14, 2010
High production of maize ethanol in the US, meaning less price-competitive ethanol, has forced Brazil to cut its exports to the world’s largest producer.
The US has no intention to lower the barriers for the entrance of the Brazilian product in that country, the head of Brazil's Development, Industry and Trade Ministry, Miguel Jorge, says.
‘We do not have a... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant.
The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
The Berlin Air Show, which was held on 8-13 June, was the perfect opportunity for aircraft company EADS to show just how far its biofuels research has progressed.
A Diamond DA42 took to the air powered only by algae biofuel.
Jean Botti, CTO at EADS, said: ‘This opens up the feasibility of carbon-neutral flights.’
According to EADS minimal adjustments had to be... [Read More]
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Jun 11, 2010
In Lakeland, Florida, US, fuel supplier Fleetwing Corporation now sells E85 ethanol from its first public ethanol pump.
Comprising of a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% petrol, the fuel is available to owners of flex-fuel vehicles only. Fleetwing also distributes E85 to Lakeland city in bulk amounts for use in its fleet vehicles.
However, since the ethanol pump was installed... [Read More]
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Jun 11, 2010
On Thursday 10 June 2010 the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger outlined strict biofuels plans, which have been described as the ‘most stringent in the world.’
Announcing the measures in Brussels Oettinger said: ‘In the years to come biofuels are the main alternative to petrol and diesel used in transport which produces more than 20% of the greenhouse gas... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2010
Privately held company ICM of Colwich, Kansas, US, is to build a second generation biofuels plant after being given the green light by the US Department of Energy.
From August this year the company will begin converting an existing grain-to-ethanol plant into a cellulosic ethanol facility that will use corn fibre, switchgrass and energy sorghum.
The $25 million (€20.7... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2010
In Berkeley County, South Carolina, US, coal brokerage firm Converse and Co. is currently developing a $4 million (€3.3 million) biofuels plant that, once completed later on this year, will use waste oil collected from eateries for the production of solid biofuel.
Now North Carolina-based waste-to-energy firm EcoPlus has signed a multi-year contract with Converse to... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
Submit your presentation abstract now for the upcoming Biofuels International expo Asia & conference in Kuala Lumpur on 10-11 November.
After last year’s successful event in Singapore the event, organised by Biofuels International magazine, is moving to Malaysia this year with the theme: improving profitability in biofuels production.
The potential for biodiesel... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
Colorado-headquartered ZeaChem has broken ground on its 250,000 gallon a year biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon, US.
The plant will initially use ZeaChem's core technology to produce ethyl acetate, a salable chemical intermediate and precursor to cellulosic ethanol.
ZeaChem's fermentation technology has been built and tested at Hazen Research facility in Golden,... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
In New Mexico the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM) opened what it claims to be the world's first vertically integrated algal biorefinery.
The refinery uses saltwater micro-algae grown in ponds that are high in oil, which is then extracted and used for biodiesel production. The remaining algae material can also be used as a livestock... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
The deal is finally done and dusted. In the US the state Public Utilities Commission has given Hawaiian Electric (HECO) approval to buy renewable biodiesel from a subsidiary of Iowa-based producer Renewable Energy Group.
The fuel, 3 to 7 million gallons in total, processed from used cooking oil and waste animal fat will be used at Hawaiian Electric's new 110MW combustion... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
US energy company Sunoco has signed an agreement with Indy Racing League to become the official fuel of the Indy Racing League, IZOD Indy Car Series and Firestone Indy Lights/Road to Indy beginning in 2011 and running through 2014.
Sunoco will team with APEX-Brasil and Brazilian organisation UNICA to promote these racing series, which run almost exclusively on ethanol.
Together... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
The world’s largest sugarcane processor Cosan SA Industria & Comercio has experienced a fiscal Q4 net sales increase of 87%.
The Brazilian company saw sales from the fuel distribution unit, which accounted for 55% of total sales, increased 72% to 2.4 billion reais (€1,078,378,157).
Petrol sales doubled to 1.21 billion reais.
Net sales increased to 4.4 billion... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
In Port Kuantan, Malaysia, Australia-based Mission NewEnergy has commissioned its second 75mgy Axens second generation biodiesel transesterification refinery.
During the performance tests, the plant achieved its nameplate capacity and met all guaranteed performance parameters, and Mission is in discussions with its turnkey contractor, KNM Process Systems, to finalise... [Read More]
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Jun 4, 2010
Spanish private equity firm GED Capital has invested €7 million in Spain-headquartered biodiesel producer Bio-Oils.
The investment will enable the company to expand its production capacity to 500,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year.
Bio-Oils is already one of the largest biodiesel producers in Europe, producing 250,000 tonnes a year.
The plant is connected by pipeline... [Read More]
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Jun 3, 2010
The Brazilian Innovation Agency, FINEP (Research and Projects Financing), and Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) have entered into a new partnership to promote bioethanol development, establishing a programme which will provide up to $540 million (€438.9 million) in financing to the country’s biofuels sector.
With operations scheduled to begin on 30 July... [Read More]
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