Jun 6, 2013
AltAir and United sign purchase agreement for bio-based jet fuel
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Jun 6, 2013
LCTI Low Carbon Technologies International, which focuses on clean-tech, environmental and energy efficiency sectors has signed a joint venture with US-based Sunthenoil.
The two want to develop a 1,000 acre algae-to-oil project located on a LCTI site using a technology sub-licensed through Sunthenoil from SunEco Energy of California.
The project aims to produce around... [Read More]
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Jun 6, 2013
South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett (TH) has revealed biofuel and renewable energy production is becoming more of a concern for its future.
TH aims to complete a bid for an 80MW power plant this year as environmental impact assessments and construction contracting advance. This follows a decree at ministerial level to provide the country with 800MW of cogeneration... [Read More]
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Jun 5, 2013
It has been reported Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) is to purchase a Nebraska ethanol plant, loading and storage facility.
The plant has been idle for 12 months but GPRE will purchase it for $15 million (€11.4 million) and hopes to restart it before August.
The Omaha-based ethanol producer has signed a purchase agreement to buy the membership interests of Choice... [Read More]
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Jun 3, 2013
Specialty chemicals company Clariant will expand the raw materials used at its demonstration plant in Germany after new findings show that corn stover and sugarcane bagasse can also be used.
The company's demo plant is converting agricultural residues into bioethanol using its Sunliquid technology. Following the opening of the facility in July 2012, Clariant now has new... [Read More]
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May 31, 2013
Renewable fuel producer Pacific Ethanol has begun commercial production of corn oil at its ethanol plant in Idaho, US.
The unrefined end product is believed to be used for biodiesel and animal feed.
‘Corn oil is a high value co-product with multiple markets including biodiesel,’ says Pacific Ethanol CEO Neil Koehler. ‘Corn oil sales at our Idaho... [Read More]
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May 30, 2013
US-based Fulcrum Energy (FE), which works in the waste to biofuels sector, will use a new grant from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to develop renewable drop-in biofuels for aircraft.
The DoD awarded FE $4.7 million (€3.6 million) toward the research, which it will also potentially double from its own capital to help complete the development of its first... [Read More]
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May 30, 2013
Global energy brand Exxon Mobil (EM) has revealed it will restructure its attack on biofuels from algae after struggling to reach commercial viability.
EM has reportedly invested over $100 million (€77 million) on the project, in conjunction with US-based Synthetic Genomics (SG), since 2009 and had hoped to hit its target goal within 10 years.
This new stance was... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
FuturaGene, which works in the enhancement of yield and sustainability in woody crops for biopower and biofuel markets, will work with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre (DDPSC) to test its technology on staple crops grown by farmers in Asia, Africa and Brazil.
Yield enhancement technology will be tested on model plants and, if successful, transferred to specific... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
The Zambian government is to start importing ethanol from Zimbabwe as a way of lowering high fuel prices within the country.
An MoU with Zimbabwe-based company Green Fuel is due to be signed after mines, energy and water development deputy minister Charles Zulu completed a tour of its facilities in Harare.
Zulu reaffirmed the deal would be short-term while the Zambian... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA) has completed research trials targeting jatropha trees as a feedstock source for sustainable biodiesel.
It is now moving to establish above ground oil fields in central America as a staged entry into a market forecasted to exceed $500 billion (€386 billion) by 2019. AFA already operates a 25 acre pilot plantation with 40,000 mature... [Read More]
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May 28, 2013
Researchers at the Spain-based University of Alicante have patented a new device which allows cultivation of microalgae to be used in biofuel production.
The group, centred in polymer processing and pyrolysis, have designed and developed a device, incorporating a photobioreactor, which can allow for mass production via less cleaning and maintenance operations, a practical... [Read More]
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May 28, 2013
Germany-based biotechnology company Direvo Industrial has been granted US and European patents covering novel cellulase enzymes.
These enzymes, according to Direvo, cleave plant-based cellulose into small sugars and can be used in numerous applications including production of biofuels, pulp and paper and synthesis of platform chemicals from renewable sources.
The granted... [Read More]
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May 24, 2013
A US-based biodiesel production plant has received investment from Itochu Enex Co. (Enex) and Itochu.
The 50 million gallon per year facility is being developed by Flint Hills Resources Renewables and biodiesel process technology company Benefuel in Beatrice, Nebraska.
The projected production volume of this facility alone corresponds to approximately 5% of the current... [Read More]
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May 22, 2013
Two pilot projects have shown promising signs for biomass production that avoids indirect land use change (ILUC) via the relatively new Low Indirect Impact Biofuels (LIIB) methodology.
Initial LIIB studies performed by sustainable energy consultancy Ecofys, which aims to supply eventual certification for biomass production which does not lead to ILUC, have taken place... [Read More]
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May 21, 2013
GEM fuel, a blend of petrol, bioethanol and biomethanol is to be used during the FIA Junior World Rally Championship this year.
GEM has been made via a partnership between Abengoa, Methanex, BioMCN, Eurol and the Methanol institute and will be managed by sustainable race fuels supplier GUUTS.
‘The FIA has a strategy to develop solutions to reduce the environmental... [Read More]
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May 21, 2013
The UK’s first bio-LNG filling station was launched by the under secretary for the Department of Transport this May.
The station, located in Daventry and built by Gasrec, is capable of fuelling up to 250 HGVs a day in the first phase from three bio-LNG dispensers. A second phase will increase that capacity to up to 700 vehicles.
The used bio-LNG is Gasrec’s... [Read More]
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