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A car that runs on wood pellets alone has achieved a world speed record at the World of Speed 2010 competition held at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, US after reaching 48mph.
Speaking about the competition the owner of the 1989 Mercury Cougar XR7 Robert ‘Chip’ Beam said: ‘There’s no category for a wood-powered car. This year we set the record. Next year we’re hoping to break the…
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Illinois-based regional agricultural cooperative and biofuels distributor Growmark will acquire Magellan Pipeline Company’s refined fuels terminal near Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
Acquisition of the facility will allow Growmark to ensure continued supply of refined fuels and solidify the cooperative’s commitment to the energy business as well as to North Central Iowa.
In addition to traditional…
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Ong Eng Tong, business development manager for the Asia Pacific at Mabanaft, Singapore, is the latest speaker to confirm his participation in the upcoming Bioenergy International/Tank Storage Asia expo & conference.
Tong has over 30 years of experience in the bulk liquid storage sector, and is also an emerging expert in the renewable energy market so will speak on biofuels and their role in…
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Originally planned to be operational this week, it is now expected that the production of biodiesel at the Bahamas Waste plant will commence by the end of the month.
When operations do begin it is hoped that some of the 500,000 gallons of imported cooking oil will be replaced.
Earl Deveaux, environment minister, said: ‘We import a significant amount of cooking oil and when we process the…
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Kinder Morgan’s redevelopment project at its terminal in Carteret, New Jersey, is approximately 15% complete.
The company is adding new petrol/ethanol blending systems and storage facilities in a $60 million (€43.4 million) project.
The seven blending tanks will allow for about 1.035 million barrels of storage, making the Carteret facility the energy giant's second-largest liquids…
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With E15 now approved for vehicles with model years 2007 upwards in the US, transportation fuel provider Sunoco has announced that it will supply NASCAR with its new fuel – Sunoco Green E15 – in NASCAR’s three national touring series for the 2011 season.
As the new official fuel of NASCAR, Sunoco Green E15 will replace Sunoco 260 GTX. Starting in 2011 the new fuel will be used by every car…
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Operations at Germany-based biofuel manufacturer EOP Biodiesel’s production facility have ceased.
According to EOP Biodiesel a gear unit at its oil mill has been damaged. It is this oil mill which produces rapeseed oil prior to the biodiesel being made.
Although a new gear has been ordered, the company is unsure when it will be delivered to the site in Pritzwalk, Germany.
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UK-based renewable energy firm Living Fuels has opened its new biofuels processing plant in Hockwold, near Thetford.
Part of the Renewable Energy Generation Group, Living Fuels produces biofuel from used cooking oil (UCO) collected from over 270 recycling centres located in the UK.
This fuel, known as LF100, is then used by the company to generate electricity and heat in CHP units across the…
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Join those already registered at the upcoming Bioenergy International Asia expo & conference on 10-11th November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Companies already coming include Petronas, ASB Biodiesel, Conoco Phillips, Shell Eastern Petroleum, Thai Oil, SK Energy, BioFuel Lanka, Dialog, Vopak, Oiltanking, Dovechem, CPC (Taiwan), Langsat Terminal, MISC, Rotary Engineering, Stolt Nielsen and many…
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Buffalo Lake Energy has received a $285,000 (€204,000) fine from the US-based Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for operations at its ethanol plant in Fairmont.
Since operations began in June 2008 the facility has breached the conditions of its air and water quality permits.
The most significant violation came when Buffalo Lake Energy constructed and ran an alternative system for…
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In Central America the government of Panama is to invest $2 million (€1.4 million) on the construction of a biodiesel facility in what will hopefully encourage further biodiesel production in the region.
The 10,000 litre-a-day production plant will be built in the province of Colon with groundbreaking expected to commence at the beginning of next year.
The plant will manufacture the biofuel…
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A producer of hydrocarbons from renewable resources, Global Bioenergies has reached a key milestone in the development of its process for the transformation of renewable resources into gaseous isobutene.
According to Marc Delcourt, the co-founder and CEO of Evry, France-based Global Bioenergies, ‘We have achieved our goal to bioproduce isobutene in vivo ahead of target. We are now…
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In the US Wanzek Construction, a wholly owned subsidiary of speciality contractor MasTec, has been selected by BlueFire Renewables to build its cellulosic ethanol plant located in Fulton, Mississippi.
The $296 million (€213 million) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was signed in early October 2010 and includes around $100 million for the facility’s biomass…
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The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has allocated RM1 million (€231,260) to Petronas, Shell, BHP, ExxonMobil and Chevron to set up infrastructure for B5 biodiesel blending facilities, ahead of the introduction of the mandate next year.
The incentive comes as the government aims to fully implement a B5 mandate by mid 2011, a requirement which was supposed to have been put in place by January…
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Delegates registering for the upcoming Bioenergy International Asia expo & conference can now receive a 10% discount to the event if they register before 15th October.
The two day event, being held on 10-11th November in Kuala Lumpur, organised by market leading publication Biofuels International magazine, is now in its second year and is supported by the Malaysian Biodiesel…
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