Jul 23, 2009
Uganda to produce bioethanol from cellulose
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Jul 23, 2009
Mid-America Agri Products, the owner of a 44 million gallon per year bioethanol plant, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing unfavourable conditions in the bioethanol market.
The plant had been operating at full capacity for less than a year.
The plant closed in January, originally planning to reopen, but it has now laid its workers.
City officials are hoping... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
Healy Biodiesel is to convert from production of traditional biodiesel to become the first commercial producer of a new type of renewable diesel.
The Kansas-based producer signed a letter of intent with New Mexico’s Cetane Energy on 17 July. It is to abandon transesterification to become the first manufacturer to produce renewable diesel using Cetane’s patent-pending... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
The Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) is heading a pilot study to produce biofuel from fishing industry waste in Greenland.
The Greenland Shark, one of the world’s largest species of shark, is killed in large numbers by fishermen, either accidentally when they become entangled in nets or deliberately to prevent predation of commercially valuable species such as squid.... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2009
A project in Australia’s Queensland is looking to generate power from bananas.
Horticultural organisation Growcom intends to generate power from biogas from the 30% of harvested bananas in Australia which are deemed unsaleable and wasted along with leaves and plant stalks.
Growcom’s Banana Waste 2 Energy (BW2E) project aims to capture the energy in banana waste... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Indian Railways is planning to introduce biodiesel and compressed natural gas (CNG) as locomotive fuels in an attempt to cut down on pollution says.
Currently, the railways uses diesel and electricity, which is an indirect pollutant as a bulk of the country’s power capacity is coal-fired.
‘Successful trials have been carried out by using 10% blend of biodiesel on... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Just weeks after a predicted bust, UK-based energy crop developer D1 Oils has reached a conditional agreement with BP to acquire BP's 50% interest in D1-BP Fuel Crops, its joint venture with BP for the planting of jatropha.
D1 will thereby to take back sole ownership the global planting assets and interests of the joint venture.
In June the company announced it... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
Texas, US-based Terrabon is working on a renewable green petrol fuel, identical to ordinary petroleum-based fuel, which can be made from organic material like cornstalks.
Terrabon has been testing a technology known as MixAlco. Developed by scientists at Texas A&M University, it uses an acid fermentation process that can convert biomass into chemicals that can be... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
While many ethanol producers are going down, California-headquartered GreenHouse Energy is going bottoms-up.
The producer is teaming-up with Karl Strauss Brewing Company to convert spent beer yeast into ethanol fuel.
Together, the two companies and the state are part of the GreenHouse Developmental Pilot Program, a distribution model being introduced first in Southern... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
For the year ended 30 April 2009 Canadian cellulosic ethanol developer Lignol made a loss of $6.2 million (€4.4 million) compared to a loss of $4.6 million in fiscal 2008.
The company has spent more on research and development attributed to the construction and start-up of operations of the company’s new fully integrated pilot plant and expansion of research and... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
In the US a lawsuit to clean up 75,000 gallons of ethanol that leaked following a train derailment in Rockford, Illinois, on 19 June has found a railway company responsible.
Canadian National Railway and its subsidiary Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, will be required by Illinois to perform the environmental cleanup of ethanol in surrounding soil and nearby waterways.... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2009
In the US the Renewable Fuels Association has called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take the immediate interim step of moving to an E12 blend while it waits for the EPA to rule on the E15 waiver request.
The EPA is not required to do so until 1 December 2009.
Increasing the amount of ethanol blended into the nation’s fuel supply is both scientifically... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2009
An explosion shook Columbus Foods’ biodiesel plant in Chicago, US, on 17 July, injuring two people.
The injured victims, a truck driver and a plant worker, were taken to hospital for treatment. Other workers at the plant exposed to chemicals that rained on them after the blast were reportedly decontaminated.
Police and fire investigators blamed the explosion to the... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2009
A company in the central east African country of Tanzania is planning to venture into the production of biogas from waste from the sisal plant, following the successful piloting of the project at Hale Sisal Estate in
Korogwe District.
Segera Estates, which owns three sisal estates in the region and another in the Coast Region, is currently looking for partners to develop... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2009
Biofuel made from paddy rice is now being sold at a petrol station pump in Niigata, Japan.
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations Zennoh (JA Zennoh) began sales of the biofuel, a mixture of petrol and bioethanol made from rice for animal feed, on 17 July.
An annual ethanol production of about 1,000 kilolitres is expected from some 2,250 tonnes... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2009
It’s been 22 years since crime-fighting Robocop cleaned up the dirty Detroit streets. Now a new ‘greener’ robot has entered the scene.
A steam-powered, robot designed for the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, has been programmed to fuel itself on biomass.
Maryland-based Robotic Technology’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2009
In the US, the Department of Energy (DoE) has seen sense in scouring the ponds for renewable fuel potential.
The Department has announced $85
million (€60 million) in funding for the development of algae-based biofuels and advanced, infrastructure-compatible biofuels.
The funding comes as part of the funds released from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.... [Read More]
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