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The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January has meant a desperate lack of sanitation facilities but now Brazilian group Viva Rio is turning human excrement into biogas for use as fuel. The Kay Nou camp in Port-au-Prince is one of many to have flourished in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince since the earthquake. The camps are absorbing many of the estimated 1 million people made…
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St1’s sixth plant will have a slightly different focus by using household and municipal waste as its feedstock. This will be located Hämeenlinna, southern Finland, and testing is due to begin next month. Production capacity will gradually be increased to 1 million litres by the end of the year. St1 Biofuels has proved its waste to-ethanol concept in Finland and is now looking to exports its…
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After discovering transport fuel can be made out of the dead trees killed off by woodland beetles, Colorado State University (CSU) is preparing to take this discovery to the next level. The university will soon test California-based firm Mountain View’s technology that will turn lodge pole pines into butanol for the transport fuel sector. CSU’s Engines and Energy Conservation Lab will…
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Biodiesel company Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Netspace International Holdings, will acquire Sao Paulo, Brazil-based biodiesel producer Integrated Biodiesel Industries (IBI) after signing a letter of intent (LOI). Focused on the mergence of biodiesel firms, AFA’s CEO Craig Frank remarks: ‘This LOI marks the beginning of the implementation of our carefully…
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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 million litres) of…
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After recently acquiring joint venture operations in Central Java, Indonesia, renewable energy company Jatoil has secured its first sale of a commercial quantity of crude jatropha oil. The sale is under a new four-year off-take agreement with Jatoil’s partner Waterland International, covering all crude jatropha oil produced from the first 1,000 hectares of the project. The initial shipment of…
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The Netherlands-based oil and petrochemical storage provider Vopak is increasing storage capacity in South America. Vopak Brazil is expanding its Alemoa (Santos) and Aratu port terminals. At Alemoa capacity has grown by 37,200 m3 or 30%, the additional volume being distributed in 12 tanks of 3,100 m3 each. In addition Vopak also purchased 20,000 m2 of land next to the terminal, which will…
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The Brazil-based agribusiness company Granol is set to invest BRL10 million (€4.5 million) to boost the production capacity of biofuel at its biodiesel plant located in the state of Goias. The facility currently produces 613m3 of biodiesel a day from soya oil, other vegetable oils and animal fat but Granol is looking to ramp up production to 1,033m3 a day. In addition to this plant in the…
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On 20 September 2010 TMO Renewables, a developer of a new process for converting biomass into ethanol for transportation fuel, entered into a 20-year exclusive contract with clean tech company Fiberight. The contract could be worth in excess of $25 million (€19.09 million) a year and will see Fiberight design and build a number of US-based bioethanol refineries. The plants will combine the…
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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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Ethanol producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is to begin building its second Brazil-based biofuel plant. Construction of the biodiesel production plant is expected to commence next year before it is operational in 2012. With an annual output capacity of 164,000 tonnes of biodiesel, the facility will be erected nearby to a soyabean crushing facility in Santa Catarina. The news comes as ADM…
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Brazil-based energy firm Petrobras has begun building a 528-mile ethanol pipeline, in conjunction with PMCC and construction company Camargo Correa. Work on the pipeline commenced on 22 November 2010, the first section of which will connect the cities Ribeirao Preto to Paulinia. Ribeirao Preto is a major sugarcane- producing region, while Paulinia is a key fuel distribution and refining hub…
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Abengoa Bioenergy Netherlands is involved in a deal to pipe waste carbon dioxide from its bioethanol plant in Rotterdam to greenhouses in the Zuidplaspolder within an area of around 550 hectares. The European Commission (EC) authorised the move, under EU state aid rules, for a €5 million investment aid for the pipeline infrastructure. The waste CO2 will be used to enhance crop growth,…
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Biofuels International is pleased to announce that the third Biofuels International expo & conference will be held in Prague on 5-6 May 2010. With over 400 attendees in 2009, 2010 promises to be even bigger and better. To reflect the industry's move towards advanced biofuels and renewable power generation this year's event will include streams on biogas and biomass, as well as…
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