Dec 17, 2015
Port of Seattle partners with Alaska Airlines and Boeing to supply sustainable aviation biofuel
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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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Nov 30, 2015
Portugal-based Ecoslops has completed the first sale of its recycled marine fuel (MDO).
The MDO, which is made from marine oil residues known as slops, is produced at Ecoslops' facility at the Port of Sines in Portugal and complies with the ISO 8217 standard.
The sale comprises a 1,000-tonne shipment, which was purchased by a European operator specialising in maritime... [Read More]
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Nov 27, 2015
The Department of Science and Technology of South Africa is calling for statements of interest to be submitted for demonstrations of 2G and algae-based biofuel production technologies.
Proposals are sought from South African nationals who have already reached proof of concept with their technologies, have an existing company, and can demonstrate an attractive business... [Read More]
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Nov 17, 2015
HSBC has pledged to commit $1 billion (€937m) to a green bond portfolio which will invest in high quality liquid assets in the form of green, social, or sustainability bonds.
These bonds will be aligned with the Green Bond Principles and will be used to fund projects in sectors such as clean transportation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change adaption,... [Read More]
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Nov 16, 2015
Joule, a liquid fuels from recycled CO2 solutions provider, and Red Rock Biofuels, a developer of renewable jet and diesel fuel biorefineries, intend to merge.
The transaction is expected to close during the in the next month.
Red Rock Biofuels uses Fischer-Tropsch technology to convert forest and sawmill biomass residues into jet fuel and diesel products.
The company... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2015
Hamrick Engineering, a US-based start-up, has received a broad patent for extracting sugars and nanocellulose from lignocellulosic biomass by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
This new technology uses an environmentally benign technique of vacuum infusion of hydrolysis catalysts into biomass.
‘This ground-breaking patent describes how to extract sugars... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2015
Gevo has entered into a license agreement and joint development agreement with Praj Industries to enable the licensing of its isobutanol technology to processors of non-corn based sugars, including the majority of Praj's global customer base of ethanol plant owners.
As part of the agreements, Praj will invest in the development and optimisation of Gevo's isobutanol technology... [Read More]
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