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According to Lurgi, a member of the Air Liquide group of companies in Memphis, Tennessee, US, California’s only fully operational ethanol plant is online.
An Ultra Low NOX gas turbine generator powers the Calgren plant, located in Pixley, with the ability to generate 5,800KW of electricity.
With its built-in process conversion technology, the facility will also produce 55 million gallons of…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Robert Gmyrek (RG) director of the biofuels department at PKN Orlen, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May, and his thoughts on the future of the market.
PKN Orlen is Poland’s biggest blender of…
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Renewable energy firm Jatoil will become majority shareholder in its Vietnamese jatropha plantations as it invests further into the joint venture with Green Energy Vietnam (GEV). The company hopes this investment will dramatically increase its production of jatropha oil.
CEO at Jatoil Phil Hodgson said: ‘Now is the time to expand our jatropha plantings to enable the production of much…
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100% fuel grade ethanol will power the racecars in the Toyota Grand Prix, held on Long Beach on 18 April 2010, according to the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA).
UNICA has partnered with IndyCar to raise awareness about the use of ethanol. UNICA’s chief representative Joel Velasco for the US said: ‘Sugarcane ethanol is a clean and affordable renewable fuel that could help…
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Petrojam Ethanol Limited (PEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Petrojam Limited, has ceased its production of ethanol, idling its 40 million gallon-a-year plant based in Jamaica.
The facility was shut down due to the lack of raw material being delivered from Brazilian trading company Coimex.
‘The government must accept full responsibility for this state of affairs’, said energy spokesman…
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Hawaii-based ClearFuels Technology has signed a letter of agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to build a biorefinery in Colorado.
ClearFuels will receive an initial $7.7 million (€5.6 million) toward the construction of the Colorado refinery as part of an overall $22.6 million DoE grant.
The ClearFuels-Rentech biorefinery in Colorado is scheduled to be completed by the end of…
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Tanquid, OPEC, Vopak, Mestilla, Petrom, Amerifina Bio-Fuels, Noil Energy Group, Enamo, MÜNZER Bioindustrie, OK a.m.b.a, LSPO Oy, BTP Biodiesel, Slovnaft, GREENEA, Noil Energy Group, Coalandoil, italgest, Shimadzu Europa, Camlin Fine Chem, Transpetrol – just some of the names registered for the third Bioenergy International expo & conference, organised by leading global publication Biofuels…
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US-based derivatives marketplace CME Group has launched trading and clearing services for four new European biofuel swap futures contracts.
Trading will be available on the New York trading floor and clearing services through CME ClearPort, a set of flexible clearing services open to over-the-counter (OTC) market participants to substantially mitigate counterparty risk and provide neutral…
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Biodiesel Amsterdam is on schedule to begin production from its €80 million facility in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by October of this year.
Part of the Greenmills complex, the production facility will be manufacturing biodiesel from a 50:50 blend of tallow and used cooking oil (UCO). As well as Biodiesel Amsterdam, the Greenmills concept consists of Rotie Vetveredeling, and Tankstorage…
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A US-based biofuels producer has been hit with a hefty $176,750 (€130,479) fine for pollution offences.
A District Court issued the punishment to Lincolnway Energy and its ethanol plant in Nevada following a civil lawsuit brought by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The company was accused of releasing excessive amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere such as particulates and…
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Green Future Innovations, a Japanese joint venture between ITOCHU Corp. and JGC Corp. is to become involved in a Philippines-based biofuels project, along with other local partners.
The project, based in Isabela province, will include the production of power and ethanol at a commercial scale.
Green Future will manufacture and sell the biofuel produced from 54,000 kilolitres (kl) of sugarcane…
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A signed agreement between Globasol and TSK-Ingemas, of the Spanish group Globalia, will see the construction of the Dominican Republic’s first biodiesel plant.
Costing $40 million (€29.5 million) and expected to be completed within 14 months, the plant will convert 60,000 hectares of jatropha and higuereta into 100,000 tonnes of biofuels at the site in Azua province.
Included in the…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Antti Pasanen (AP), Doctor of Technology for St1 Biofuels, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
BI: What is the main subject of your presentation?
AP: I am going to give a speech, about new…
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A biodiesel production system that will enable the US Navy to produce its own sustainable fuel has been delivered to a base in South California, US.
The system, which can produce around 3-10 million gallons of biofuel annually, is a result of a close partnership between Biodiesel Industries and Navy and aerospace technology company Aerojet. Together they have set up a production facility at the…
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