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US ethanol plant owners are seeking to diversify their operations to boost growth, according to Novozyme’s global marketing manager Jack Rogers.
Speaking to Biofuels International at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW) Conference in Milwaukee, US, about the US ethanol market, Rogers said: “Corn and ethanol prices have gone down in recent years but there has been an increasing demand for…
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US-based biotechnology company White Dog Labs has unveiled a new process that eliminates the emission of CO2, a potent greenhouse gas, during fermentation and instead shifts the carbon to added ethanol production, boosting fermentation yields by around 50%.
The by-products are distillers grains, corn oil (if extracted from the grains) and water.
According to the company, the process…
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More than two thirds of the palm oil used in Germany is sustainably certified, according to German biofuels industry group VDB (Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie.
Around 1.5 million tonnes of palm oil has been used in Germany in 2013, according to the trade body. A total of 68% of this palm oil is sustainably certified.
OVID Association, a trade body for the oilseed processing industry…
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has annulled the European Union’s (EU) countrywide 9.5% anti-dumping duty on all ethanol imported from the United States. The duty had been in place since February 2013.
US-based Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy announced that they welcomed the decision, which was made on 9 June.
The ECJ ruled that the five-year anti-dumping duty of…
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Scientists have identified new steps in the way plants produce cellulose, which may help avoid having to choose between growing crops for food or fuel.
Cellulose is the component of plant cell walls that provide strength and forms insoluble fibre in the human diet.
According to a report on the phys.org website, the findings could lead to improved production of cellulose and guide plant breeding…
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Biofuels heavyweights attended a public meeting to discuss the US’ Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposals to revise the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in Kansas, US.
EPA’s recent proposal calls on refiners to blend 14.8 billion gallons of conventional biofuels in 2017, slightly below the 15-billion-gallon level envisioned by the US Congress when it expanded the RFS in…
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it intends to build a new energies portfolio that would include biofuels, hydrogen, solar and wind assets.
The company recently unveiled a new medium-term strategy that envisages asset sales and other cost-cutting measures following its takeover of UK peer BG Group earlier this year. Shell’s goal is to achieve stronger returns and…
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Repreve Renewables, a US-based bio-feedstocks firm, has opened a new processing centre in Greensboro, North Carolina. The company’s primary crop is giant miscanthus, a drought tolerant perennial that needs low inputs yet provides high yields.
Research has shown the crop also improves soil and water quality. Giant miscanthus can be used as a feedstock for a variety of…
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Alaska Airlines has used Gevo’s biofuels products to fly its planes.
Alaska Airlines Flight 388 from Seattle to San Francisco departed on 7 June with its engines using a mixture of traditional jet fuel and a 20% blend of biofuel made from fermented corn.
In a push to establish sustainable fuel sources, the airline has been flying demonstration flights with a variety of biofuels engineered…
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A new clean technology to turn sunlight into liquid fuel could drastically shrink the need for large plantations to grow crops for biofuels, while combating climate change, according to Harvard University researchers.
That could help protect food supplies and local people’s land rights, they suggested.
Dubbed “bionic leaf 2.0”, the technology uses solar panels to split water…
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UK-based Axion Polymers has added two new Axfuel High CV Polychip alternative fuels to its existing range of environmental solid recovered fuel (SRF) products.
According to the firm, its new product provides a consistent and sustainable energy solution with low-carbon impact.
Suitable for use in the cement industry and energy-from-waste sectors, Axfuel High CV Polychip Grades A and B are…
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Rail is the primary mode of transport used to transport US biofuels, according to new data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Although pipelines, tankers, and barges are widely used to transport liquid fuels to, from, and within the US, several types of liquid fuels, including crude oil, ethanol, and biodiesel, are transported by rail in large volumes.
EIA recently expanded its…
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The use of nitrogen fertiliser on switchgrass crops can produce a sharp increase in emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas up to 300 times more harmful than carbon dioxide and a significant driver of global climate change, according to a new, three-year study from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Centre and Michigan State University (MSU).
Switchgrass is one of several crops…
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Sunbird Bioenergy Africa, a biofuels producer which develops projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, is expected to sign an Investment Promotional and Protection Agreement (IPPA) on or around 30 June, 2016, in order to push ahead with its Zambian bioethanol project.
An IPPA is an international agreement between governments for the promotion and protection of investments made by investors of one…
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Abengoa Bioenergy has stopped operations at its bioethanol plant in Lacq, France.
An Abengoa spokeswoman gave a statement to Biofuels International. However, the firm did not disclose what the incident was or the cause of the incident.
The statement said: “An incident occurred in one of the fermenters during a scheduled shutdown of the plant for maintenance.
“There were no…
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