Jun 20, 2013
Ant army could provide bridge to biofuels
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Jun 19, 2013
According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah.
The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
US-based Oberon Fuels (OF), which has brought dimethyl ether (DME), a clean burning diesel alternative to market, has received a grant to produce fuel-grade DME at its facilities in California.
The $500,000 (€373,000) grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) will be used by OF to provide DME produced from biogas for supermarket brand... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is to open up its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers, in a move that it hopes will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector.
The decision, made unanimously by NBB's governing board, consolidates the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry together to... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
Two senior economists at the World Bank believe it is high oil prices which are the most important driver of the increase in global food prices.
The report, put together by John Baffes and Allen Dennis, also finds that, under a mandated ethanol/gasoline mixture, ethanol and maize prices would decline.
The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) backs this analysis... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
UK biofuel supplier Gasrec will work with global heavy-duty truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks to help its clients cut haulage costs while reducing carbon emissions.
The two companies will co-operate commercially and technically to increase the availability and promote the use of gas vehicles in the UK. Gasrec states that, when substituted for diesel, bio-LNG can cut fuel... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Forest BtL Oy is developing a new biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant on Ajos Island, Finland.
The facility will utilise wood and by-products from the wood processing industry to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha.
The project is supported by the European Union NER300 funding programme for innovative renewable energy technologies.
The front-end engineering... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working to demonstrate that jet fuel can be manufactured economically and in large volumes from biomass materials such as switchgrass and has partnered with Cobalt Technology, the US Navy and Show Me Energy for the project.
The results of these tests will help decipher whether the process can be ramped... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
Indonesia-based Waterland will receive its new green biodiesel plant in Bali later this month. It is scheduled to open in September.
The plant, which will produce biodiesel from camelina with the aid of enzymes and ethanol, is being developed and delivered by Dutch company FirmTec. Once operational the plant will make biodiesel to power generators for the production of... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
Finnish company UPM and US-based technology producer Renmatix have entered into a non-exclusive joint development agreement in the area of biochemicals.
Under terms of the agreement both companies will further develop Renmatix’s water-based Plantrose process to convert woody biomass into low-cost sugar intermediates for subsequent downstream processing.
The... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
UK biofuel supplier Gasrec has announced that its next bio-liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) refuelling station will be built at Avonmouth, near Bristol.
The station will be built on land adjacent to three motorways and be capable of refuelling up to 700 vehicles a day.
‘This represents a further step toward our goal of developing a national bio-LNG refuelling network,’... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
In an effort to reduce reliance on petroleum-based fuel in Jamaica its government is seeking billions of dollars for biofuels investment.
Phillip Paulwell , the minister of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, was quoted by local news sources as saying that a ‘biofuel energy source, if developed, could attract investments and create job opportunities’.
‘I... [Read More]
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Jun 11, 2013
A report in New Zealand regarding its forestry sector believes downstream industries like biochemicals and biofuels are ‘unlikely to flourish’ if established industries, like sawmilling, do not sell on their waste.
The Woodscape study came about after collaboration between the forest and wood products industry, the NZ Ministry for Primary Industries and NZ... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2013
The Biofuels Centre of North Carolina (BCNC) has completed its state-wide woody biomass assessment as a foundation for large biofuels production.
BCNC coordinated with forestry consultants Gelbert, Fullbright and Randolph, plus the seven state economic development regions, in 2011 to undertake the completed three-part analysis of North Carolina’s wood resources.The... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2013
Researchers from Oklahoma State University (OSU) have analysed a genome they say has great potential for the cost-effective production of biofuel.
The team, led by associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics Mostafa Elshahed, has described multiple features within the genome of rumen fungus, organisms that reside in the gut of ruminant animals.
The fungus... [Read More]
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Jun 7, 2013
Scientists have discovered a new enzyme in an odd source that could prove an important step in the quest to turn paper, scrap wood and straw waste into liquid fuel.
To do this they turned to the destructive power of tiny marine wood-borers called ‘gribble’, which have been known to destroy seaside piers.
Gribble are of interest as they are voracious consumers... [Read More]
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Jun 7, 2013
Bioinnovation company Novozymes has designed two new enzyme technologies to increase ethanol and corn oil yields for improved profits.
Two new fermentation solutions will join with the company’s Avantec brand, which is an advanced yield-enhancing liquefaction solution. Results from industry-scale trials, which deployed all three technologies, could mean additional... [Read More]
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