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Maverick Biofuels, a second generation biofuels technology company, is planning to construct a biomass-to-biofuel pilot plant in North Carolina, US. Although the firm has not yet decided on a specific location Karl von Gunten, the vice president of marketing at Maverick, explains that a site at or near a landfill is most likely. The actual size of the plant will be unknown until an investment…
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Delegates registering for the upcoming Bioenergy International Asia expo & conference can start networking straight away! Using pre-event software delegates can set-up meetings and contact other visitors, delegates, speakers and exhibitors, maximising networking opportunities at this event. The two day event, being held on 10-11th November in Kuala Lumpur, organised by market leading…
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In the US algae producer LakeMaster Corporation is to co-locate within the refinery of energy company Northern Biodiesel (NBI), based in Ontario, New York. NBI is currently converting grease and oil derived from animal and vegetable sources into ASTM certified biodiesel. In the future LakeMaster will produce lipid oil from algae as a feedstock for the NBI refinery. LakeMaster is also due to…
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With its ability to be utilised in a number of different biofuels applications including algal oil, biodiesel, aviation biofuel, ethanol, butanol and biomethane, the Algae Biofuels Production Technologies Worldwide reported that company involvement in the algae biofuels industry increased by 550% between 2005 and 2007. The driving force behind this boom was environmental concerns coupled with…
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INEOS Bio’s first commercial project in the US has secured key permits to build its waste-to-bioenergy facility in Indian River County, Florida. The INEOS Bio joint venture has obtained its final air permit and environmental resource permit from the State of Florida, its wetlands permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers and a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant…
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Following its dedication ceremony in July earlier this year, sustainable and renewable energy firm Growth Design Energy expects that construction on its biodiesel plant in the US should begin before 2011. The $9.3 million (€6.69 million) facility, based in Forest City, Iowa will produce 3 million gallons of biodiesel a year from a number of feedstocks, including animal fat and fat collected…
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Buffalo Lake Energy has received a $285,000 (€204,000) fine from the US-based Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for operations at its ethanol plant in Fairmont. Since operations began in June 2008 the facility has breached the conditions of its air and water quality permits. The most significant violation came when Buffalo Lake Energy constructed and ran an alternative system for…
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In Central America the government of Panama is to invest $2 million (€1.4 million) on the construction of a biodiesel facility in what will hopefully encourage further biodiesel production in the region. The 10,000 litre-a-day production plant will be built in the province of Colon with groundbreaking expected to commence at the beginning of next year. The plant will manufacture the biofuel…
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A producer of hydrocarbons from renewable resources, Global Bioenergies has reached a key milestone in the development of its process for the transformation of renewable resources into gaseous isobutene. According to Marc Delcourt, the co-founder and CEO of Evry, France-based Global Bioenergies, ‘We have achieved our goal to bioproduce isobutene in vivo ahead of target. We are now…
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As the production of crude oil begins to slow in Australia, biofuels production looks set to increase and it has been estimated that this will more than double by 2015. Increased installed capacity coupled with a continuous rise in demand for green transport fuel could see Australia’s output capacity reach 1.519 billion litres in five years’ time, up from its 2010 production output of 636…
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In the US Wanzek Construction, a wholly owned subsidiary of speciality contractor MasTec, has been selected by BlueFire Renewables to build its cellulosic ethanol plant located in Fulton, Mississippi. The $296 million (€213 million) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was signed in early October 2010 and includes around $100 million for the facility’s biomass…
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The US’ fourth largest ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Global Ethanol. Manufacturing a total of around 157 million gallons a year, Global Ethanol currently owns two ethanol production facilities; one in Lakota, Iowa, and a second in Riga, Michigan. These two plants will boost Green Plains’ output capacity by 31% to 657…
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The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has allocated RM1 million (€231,260) to Petronas, Shell, BHP, ExxonMobil and Chevron to set up infrastructure for B5 biodiesel blending facilities, ahead of the introduction of the mandate next year. The incentive comes as the government aims to fully implement a B5 mandate by mid 2011, a requirement which was supposed to have been put in place by January…
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