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'Biodiesel: Growing A New Energy Economy', a book highlighting the advantages that biodiesel poses, has been translated into Arabic.
Pahl hopes the translated version of his book will help highlight the importance of renewable energy around the world. He noted that, although biodiesel is not the solution for a carbon-free transport sector, it is at least part of the solution.
Ali Lillu translated…
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Technology and speciality materials firm Celanese is to begin producing ethanol in China earlier than previously scheduled.
In addition to the company's previous plans to develop a possible two greenfield units, Celanese plans to modify and enhance its existing integrated acetyl facility at the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park with its TCX technology.
These modifications would add approximately…
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Originally viewed as the solution to all of Zimbabwe's fuel issues, one of the nation's key biodiesel plants faces a period of drawn-out closure after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has pulled out of the project.
Despite having already invited bids for its 50% shareholding in fuel manufacturing company Transload, investment and economic analysts predict the project will find no investment…
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A new company has been created in the US that will aid producers and buyers of biodiesel in buying and selling the fuel.
Biodiesel consultancy firm Lee Enterprises Consulting will manage Diesels and the company's owner Wayne Lee says the new company is a 'revolutionary step in the biodiesel industry'.
He says: 'Diesels, LLC was formed by four individuals with lots of experience in the biodiesel…
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In the US, biodiesel producer Mission NewEnergy has supplied its first batch of biofuel under its most recent contract – a $100 million (€70.6 million) deal to manufacture and deliver its product to a key distributor of refined oil products.
The new contract was signed in May 2011 and, subject to a preliminary three-month probation period, will see Mission manufacturer and deliver…
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In the US, farmer-owned cooperative Ag Processing (AGP) is to acquire a defunct biodiesel plant located in Algona, Iowa.
According to the company's CEO Marty Reagan, the plant is scheduled to resume operations by 1 September 2011 and will create 31 jobs. He said AGP agreed to buy the facility because it will support its soyabean processing and biodiesel operations.
Terms of deal were not…
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In Mozambique, a total of 31 biofuel projects have been announced since 2007, according to figures from the nation's Centre of Agricultural Promotion (Cepagri). These projects are reported to span across 324,000 hectares.
It was not disclosed how much has been invested in these 31 developments.In recent years the government has begun supporting biofuels in order to promote a domestic biofuel…
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In Canada, renewable energy company Suncor Energy's St. Clair ethanol plant reached a production milestone in May 2011, when it produced 1 billion litres of the biofuel.
Operations at the St. Clair first started in June 2006 and it had an annual production capacity of 200 million litres. The facility then underwent an expansion project, which was completed in February 2011 and saw the plant's…
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In Hopkins, Missouri, US, the nation's fourth largest ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy has acquired 2 million bushels of federally-licensed grain storage.
The acquisition of the grain storage, which was previously owned by Horizon Grain and GS Grain, was completed through the company's wholly owned subsidiary Green Plains Grain Company.
The grain elevator is located approximately 45…
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In the Philippines, the country's largest ethanol plant could restart production.
According to Rosemarie Gumera, manager of policy and planning at the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), the San Carlos Bioenergy plant, located in Negros Occidental, looks set to reopen as the price of locally produced sugarcane continues to fall.
San Carlos Bioenergy stopped making ethanol between 2010 and…
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Medford, Massachusetts, US-based Agrivida, a company dedicated to finding novel crop varieties for the production of biofuels, has reportedly raised $2 million (€1.4 million) of a planned $8 million round of equity funding.
The company collaborated with agribusiness firm Syngenta Ventures back in December 2010 to develop new corn and switchgrass strains that can be used for the production of…
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In Accra, Ghana, a 'Next-Generation Urban Sanitation Facility' is being developed at Columbia University, US, after receiving a $1.5 million (€1.06 million) grant from Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Upon completion the facility, which has not yet broken ground, will produce biodiesel and methane from faecal sludge.
Kartik Chandran, a professor at the university, will…
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In Brazil, ethanol producers cannot meet the demand from the number of flex-fuel vehicles on Brazilian roads.
The nation has suffered two low sugarcane harvests throughout 2010 and 2011 and this was attributed to excessive rainfall. As a result, the mandatory percentage of ethanol to be blended with fossil petrol was lowered.
The Brazilian government then declared an ethanol shortage, blaming the…
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