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May 4, 2016
Renewable Energy Group posts Q1 2016 profit
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May 4, 2016
Valmet, a Finnish energy technology firm, and Biochemtex, an Italian engineering firm, will start to cooperate in the field of conversion of lignin into biochemicals.
The development project will combine and adapt LignoBoost and Moghi technologies.
LignoBoost is Valmet's proprietary technology for the extraction of purified lignin from black liquor produced by pulp... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 5, 2016
Advance Bioenergy, a Minnesota, US-based biofuel producer, has shut down its South Dakota ethanol plant due to the facility falling behind in technological development.
The plant, located in the city of Aberdeen, was one of the first ethanol plants in the US when it began production in the early 1990s under the name of Heartland Grain Fuels.
But the plant was closed last... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 6, 2016
Aemetis, a US-based advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company, has signed an agreement to acquire Edeniq, a US cellulosic ethanol technology company.
Under the terms of the agreement, Aemetis will acquire all of Edeniq's outstanding shares in a stock plus cash merger transaction.
Edeniq has developed patented innovations that unlock cellulosic and starch sugars through... [Read More]
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May 6, 2016
Mexico-based Tequila Cazadores distillery has installed a biomass boiler that is designed to harness as much green energy it can from the discards made during regular production of the brand's top-shelf spirits. These discards are then transformed into fuel.
The ashes created within the boiler are used for composting and transforming the ashes into a nutrient-rich... [Read More]
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May 9, 2016
National Biodiesel Board’s CEO Joe Jobe has left the organisation to pursue other interests after nearly 20 years of service.
Jobe started at the NBB in 1997 and became the CEO just two years later in 1999.
Between then and his date of leaving, Jobe helped grow the US biodiesel industry from producing 200,000 gallons annually to the 2 billion gallons projected for... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 10, 2016
Canadian ethanol producer Calgren Renewable Fuels has invested in key co-products to sell in addition to its 58 million gpy ethanol output.
The Calgren plant, located in Pixley, California, was the state’s first when it was built in 2009.
Today, the company also sells 400,000 tpy of distiller’s grain for use as animal feed to local dairies and feedlots as well... [Read More]
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May 11, 2016
The US Energy Department (DOE) is handing out up to $90 million ($78.9m) in project funding focused on designing, constructing, and operating integrated biofuel facilities.
The department notes the production of biofuels from sustainable, non-food, domestic biomass resources is an important strategy to meet the US administration’s goals to reduce carbon emissions... [Read More]
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May 11, 2016
The University of Illinois and the University of Florida have been awarded a third round of funding from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to carry out research projects on ‘ultra-productive’ biofuel crops.
According to both universities, this new generation of sugarcane-based biofuels crops could yield 13 times... [Read More]
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May 11, 2016
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a “one-pot” method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material.
The traditional method for producing advanced biofuels is a three-step process: Liquid salts break down plant... [Read More]
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May 12, 2016
A bill has been introduced by a group of Republican Party members that aims to limit the total volume of ethanol contained in transportation fuel to 9.7%.
The bill is entitled HR 5180, the Food and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 2016 and was introduced in the US House of Representatives.
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), implemented in 2005, was designed to promote use... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2016
Spanish renewable energy giant Abengoa Bioenergy said a US bankruptcy court has approved financing to help the firm restart its Nebraska production operations.
The US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an order approving “up to $41 million of debtor in possession financing for the six Abengoa Bioenergy companies that had recently filed for... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2016
The Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit conservation organisation, and seven other groups have urged the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to withdraw, what they describe as, a misleading and inaccurate report on second-generation biofuels.
In a letter to the UN organisation, the groups wrote that “the report contains so many factual... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2016
ASTM International, an international standards organisation, has completed its process of approving the revision of ASTM D7566 (Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons) to include alcohol to jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) derived from renewable isobutanol.
In a press statement, US biofuels producer Gevo said... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 13, 2016
Argentina's government plans to raise its requirement for ethanol blend in gasoline from the current 12% to up to 26% from next year, according to a report in Reuters.
Information about the country's intention to follow suit with Brazil's long-standing ethanol policy came from Patrick Adam, executive director of Argentina's corn ethanol chamber.
A spokesman for the energy... [Read More]
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