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Denmark-based ethanol producer Inbicon has delivered 28,500 litres of cellulosic ethanol to energy company Statoil. In what is the first delivery of many, the biofuel was dropped off at its stock tank in Hedehusene, Denmark, where it will be blended with conventional vehicle fuel later on in the year. This is just part of a total 5 million litres which Statoil bought from Inbicon in August.…
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In late 2008 Canada-based Lignol, a technology firm in the cellulosic ethanol, biochemicals and biorefining sector, signed a $30 million (€21.91 million) agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) relating to the construction of a commercial demonstration cellulosic ethanol plant. Now the agreement has been modified whereby approximately $4 million (previously €1.56 million) has been…
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A new 5 million-litre storage facility is being built in the Philippines. Phoenix Petroleum Philippines is constructing the P123 million (€2.045 million) terminal in Talisayan, Zamboanga City to store petroleum products including biodiesel, petrol and jet fuel to serve the demands in the south. The project was granted tax and fiscal incentives by the Board of Investments. Phoenix will…
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Construction of the Fulton, Mississippi-based cellulosic ethanol plant developed by BlueFire Renewables, a company dedicated on the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, can begin construction as the final permits have now been received. The company has obtained its final air, wastewater and storm water permits from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality…
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Product chemical manufacturer JSC Mogilevkhimvolokno Organic Synthesis Factory in Mogilev, Belarus, has placed an order to construct a biodiesel plant with BDI BioEnergy International. The value of the order is just under €10 million. The biodiesel production facility, which will produce 50,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year from rapeseed oil, is planned for the city of Mogilev, which is based…
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In a bid to increase the amount of biofuel produced in Germany, the land used for growing feedstocks, solar parks and wind turbines will be doubled in ten years’ time. Today, 1.77 million of Germany’s 35.7 million hectares are being used for renewable energy. If Germany is to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of the decade, almost 4 million hectares will be…
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It will complete an ethanol facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, later this year, but first Spain-headquartered bioethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy will take up storage space in the port. In January approximately 65,000 m3 of new tank capacity became available at Caldic in the Europoort area, and was swiftly snapped up by Abengoa to store and handle ethanol produced elsewhere. The tanks…
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In Tennessee, a new biodiesel processing system has been purchased by the city of Clarksville. The acquisition was funded by a federal grant, and will allow Clarksville Gas and Water to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. The city hopes that the biodiesel produced will eventually power the city’s buses. This will cost significantly less, as ordinary diesel is priced at almost $2.80 per…
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In the UK, city councillors have declined the biomass power plant proposed for Avonmouth. The refinery, which would have utilised 70,000 tonnes of vegetable oil from tropical palm trees to power 25,000 homes, received more than 1,100 letters of objection before the meeting. The high demand for palm oil has been linked to large areas of deforestation. Councillors voted 6-2 against the plans…
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Shipping giants Maersk and Lloyd’s Register are joining forces with the Dutch government and other specialist contractors to test the performance of a mix of biodiesel in marine engines in a number of trials. The trials will test for possible difficulties that could be encountered by the liners. Processed from renewable sources that can be grown in temperate climates, fatty acid methyl esters…
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KLM, a Dutch airline operator and part of Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM, is aiming to offer flights to the public that will use biofuels. In November 2009 a 90 minute KLM aeroplane flew over the Netherlands in a Boeing 747. During this flight one out of the three engines used a 50:50 biofuels blend while the other two ran on 100% kerosene. According to Peter Hartman, KLM’s chief executive,…
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It was the first country in Asia to use biodiesel on such a large scale, mandating a B1 blend since July 2008, and now Taiwan will double the percentage of biodiesel in diesel for cars this year. It is estimated that the consumption of biodiesel in Taiwan will increase to 100 million litres this year, decreasing carbon dioxide emissions, the Bureau of Energy under the Ministry of Economic…
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Following the resignation of the Czech Minister of the Environment Jan Dusík in March, Vladimír Vlk, energy advisor for the new Minister of the Environment Rut Bízková, will now make the keynote presentation at the upcoming Bioenergy International expo & conference next week in Prague on 5-6 May. Dusik resigned because he felt that the prime minister had put him under undue pressure to…
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After signing a Memorandum of Understanding solutions provider MBD Energy has become the first customer of algae-related technology producer OriginOil (OOIL). The deal will see OOIL provide Australia-based MBD Energy with its Quantum Fracturing and Single-Step Extraction technology. To begin with MBD Energy will use the technology in its research and development facility, which opened in…
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