Jan 6, 2016
US presidential candidate Ted Cruz to face protest from pro-ethanol group
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Jan 6, 2016
India has doubled its target of blending ethanol with gasoline to 10%, as it aims to promote cleaner fuel to tackle pollution.
According to Reuters, oil companies have never met the current 5% blending target as ethanol derived from molasses - the thick syrup produced by boiling down sugarcane juice in sugar refining - costs more than gasoline without including taxes.... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
British Airways (BA) has announced that it has been forced to abandon plans to turn landfill waste into green jet fuel, partly due to lack of government support.
The airliner and green fuels specialist Solena Fuels announced last year that it would move forward with long-standing plans to develop a state-of-the-art facility called GreenSky at an ex-oil refinery in Thurrock,... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
The Turley family have bought out their 50% partner in Ethanol Europe Renewables — one of the continent's biggest producers of bioethanol.
The company was a joint venture between the Turleys and Fagen, an American developer of energy plants.
According to The Sunday Times, accounts show that the Turley family, who made more than €100m from the sale of the online... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2016
Researchers from US-based Indiana University have developed a virus-like biomaterial that catalyses the formation of hydrogen for the production of biofuels.
The biomaterial or 'nano-reactor', as scientists at Indiana University describe it, is produced by placing a modified enzyme inside the protective protein shell of a virus, called a capsid.
The resulting 'nano reactor'... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2016
Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France.
According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan.
At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2015
The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines, and Boeing are partnering to move toward powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) with sustainable aviation biofuel.
Sea-Tac is the first US airport to lay out a long-term roadmap to incorporate aviation biofuel into its infrastructure in a cost-effective, efficient manner.
The three... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2015
Scientists from the US Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds.
The discovery shines new light on the complex metabolic network for... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2015
New Heaven Chemicals, a US-based subsidiary of the TSS Group, is preparing to open its chemical production facility in Manly, Iowa.
After 17 months of construction, New Heaven Chemicals (NHC) plans to begin production of sodium methylate, a biofuel catalyst, by February 2016.
The Manly plant is NHC’s first plant in the US, and it will supplement the company’s... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2015
An initiative by Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute for wood and biomaterials, to understand the future potential of biofuels in New Zealand has attracted attention from ‘serious players’.
Scion reports that actors in industry, government, and sector interest groups in addition to the research community have expressed interest in its New Zealand... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2015
Scania Malaysia and the innovation agency Agensi Inovasi Malaysia are to collaborate in exploring viable commercial opportunities for biofuels from municipal waste in Malaysia.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between the two parties in line with Malaysia’s National Biomass Strategy 2020 (NBS2020).
The MOU will see Scania and Agensi Inovasi Malaysia... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2015
The reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions from global ethanol production and use is increasing annually, says a new report by the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), in cooperation with energy and environment consulting firm (S&T)2 Consultants released a new report titled Green House Gas (GHG) Emission Reductions... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2015
University of Massachusetts Amherst computational chemist Scott Auerbach has been awarded a three-year, $330,000 (€300,400) grant from the National Science Foundation to improve basic understanding and optimise the process of producing fuels such as gasoline from plant biomass.
For more than 50 years chemists and chemical engineers have refined crude oil using synthetic... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2015
Hawaiʻi Island is primed for the creation of biorefineries designed to use waste from cattle and possibly from humans to create biofuel, according to the University of Hawai’i.
Shihwu Sung, a professor of applied engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Hilo, moved to Hilo last year to explore emerging alternative energy opportunities.
Sung believes... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2015
Aerospace giant Boeing, with support from Canada's aviation industry and other stakeholders, is working to turn leftover forestry residues into sustainable aviation biofuel.
Canada, which has extensive sustainably certified forests, has long used mill and forest residues to make wood pellets that are used to generate electricity.
A consortium that includes Boeing,... [Read More]
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Dec 2, 2015
Euglena, a Japanese microalgae developer and producer, has partnered with Japan’s largest airline ANA Holdings to develop an algae-based jet fuel.
A 3 billion yen (appr. €23m) demonstration plant, using technology from Chevron, is scheduled to come online in early 2018 with plans to 125,000 litres of renewable jet fuel.
Euglena hopes to be able to commercialise... [Read More]
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Dec 1, 2015
Advanced Biochemical Thailand (ABT), a subsidiary of Solvay, has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins.
The certificate covers the manufacture of bio-based epichlorohydrin (ECH), using Solvay's technology, from vegetable glycerol derived... [Read More]
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