Jun 24, 2014
Greenfield biodiesel plant receives state grant
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Jun 24, 2014
Neste Oil and Renewable Algae Energy (RAE), a US-based algae biomass producer, have signed a commercial algae oil off-take agreement.
Traffic fuels refiner and marketer, Neste Oil, is researching algae oil as one of the alternative feedstocks for producing NEXBTL renewable diesel.
Implementation of the agreement will require RAE to increase its algae oil production capacity... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
US ethanol outputs have hit a record high as plants prepare for the increasing seasonal demand and positive margins.
With weak corn prices and increasing crude oil values to reinforce this demand, last week saw plants produce on average 972,000 barrels a day, 28,000 barrels a day more than the previous week – the highest ever figure since records began.
The weak... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
Zimbabwe's government has scrapped plans to increase the mandatory threshold for ethanol blending and will maintain the current levels, as a result of the disappointing sugarcane output.
Initially, the government planned to increase the mandatory blending of petrol with ethanol to 20% by April this year from the current E15, reporting this would save $72 million (€53... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2014
New research suggests that waste coffee could be used to power vehicles, help improve the sustainability of biofuels and respond to the issue of climate change.
Researchers at the University of Bath have released a report published in the ACS Journal Energy and Fuels, detailing findings which show that waste coffee grounds have more potential for creating biofuels than... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2014
Amyris, a renewable energy provider, has designed microorganisms that convert plant sugars to a molecule called farnesene. Farnesene is then converted into a pure hydrocarbon through a secondary process.
The resulting product, farnesane, can be blended with Jet A/A1 at 10% blends, in accordance with the revised ASTM standard.
Amyris is currently producing renewable farnesene... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2014
The Brazilian government gets ready to test a higher percentage of ethanol in commercial petrol.
Over the next two months, testers will analyse the viability of increasing the mandatory blend of the biofuel in petrol.
Ethanol is currently blended into petrol at the maximum of 25%.
Despite no information released on what higher blends will be measured, the cane industry... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2014
A $1.8 million (€1.3 million) federal grant has been awarded to Clinton, North Carolina, for its water and sewer equipment at the city's cellulosic biofuels refinery.
The $200 million investment, which looks set to produce 20 million gallons per year of cellulosic biofuels, is expected to start production in October and be fully operational by the end of 2016.
The... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2014
The European Renewable Ethanol Industry Association (ePURE) has published its first industry report, detailing both Europe's ethanol production and consumption.
It also notes the opportunities and challenges the industry will face in the future and the influence the EU policy will have on the ethanol industry's status and growth.
Rob Vierhout, ePURE's secretary general,... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2014
Amyris, an industrial bioscience company and energy providers Total have announced their drop-in jet fuel, which contains a 10% mix of renewable farnesane, under a newly revised ASTM standard.
The duo have closely coordinated the release of the fuel with Boeing, who aims to see biofuels account for a 1% share in the total jet fuel supply within 10 years.
The fuel has... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
Manchester Metropolitan University's biofuel research skyrockets following the longest worldwide commercial flight using sustainable fuels.
Researchers at the Centre for Aviation Transport and the Environment (CATE) are members of a European team looking to send biofuel-fuelled planes around the world, which saw last month's flight set a new record.
The team's latest flight... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
UPM has signed a sales agreement with oil and biofuels specailist, North European Oil Trade (NEOT), for the distribution of UPM's BioVerno renewable diesel.
The sustainable energy provider's bioproduct is produced in its Lappeenranta Biorefinery.
'By blending it with fossil fuel we are able to fulfill part of the bio target set for Finnish transport, and increase Finland's... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2014
An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland, has raised serious fears over the European Union's 'unsustainable' biofuels policy.
The National Trust says that under the current EU policy, 70 million hectares of land will be needed to grow a sufficient amount of materials to reach the targets set.
Ireland is also reliant on imported used cooking oil (UCO) as a source of biofuel,... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2014
As research into alternative energy has grown, Japan is now looking to replace crude oil.
Makoto Watanabe, a phycologist and professor at the University of Tsukuba's Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, believes algae is the best alternative to algae.
Watanabe works with two species of microalgae, the photosynthetic Botryococcus braunii, and Aurantiochytrium,... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2014
IncBio, a Portuguese engineering company specialising in automated ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has delivered a 120,000MT per year ultrasonic transesterification reactor to be installed in South America.
The reactor will be used in an existing plant to increase its efficiency, while reducing its operational costs.
'Ultrasonic reactors not only speed up the conversion,... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2014
Clinton, Mississippi, has received $1.7 million (€1.3 million) to build a water and waste water infrastructure to aid the new Chemtex cellulosic biofuels plant.
This project will use energy grasses to produce up to 20 million gallons per year of ethanol and bio-based chemicals in a bid to lower levels of greenhouse emissions.
Its feedstock, Arundo Donax, which was... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2014
EU energy ministers have agreed to limit the production of biofuels made from food crops to 7%.
The ministers' compromise is welcomed following last year's deadlock when European Union governments failed to agree on a proposed 5% cap on the use of biofuels based from crops used in transport fuel.
The 7% compromise includes a 0.5% target aimed at second generation biofuels,... [Read More]
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