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Jan 31, 2014
Canadian biodiesel project up and running
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Feb 3, 2014
Plans have been approved for the addition of a biofuel storage tank to the Pilot Travel Centre site in California, US.
Barstow Planning Commission passed the proposal to construct the 20,000 gallon, aboveground tank at the large service station.
The tank will store 100% biofuel, to be used in a blend with petroleum-based diesel, with state laws allowing a maximum of 20%... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2014
US-based ethanol producer Marathon Petroleum has signed an agreement to purchase a facility in Ohio from Felda Iffco, a Malaysian company.
The plant currently produces several products including biodiesel and glycerin. The capacity of the plant is 4,100 barrels per day. The transaction is expected to close this April but the details are not being disclosed.
‘This... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2014
The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) has warned the European Commission (EC) about surging ethanol imports from Peru since entering a free trade agreement in August 2013.
ePure claim in a statement it is ‘apparent an inadvertent change in the pattern of trade is occurring as a direct consequence of this trade agreement’
‘Peru is taking advantage... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2014
UK-based Ennovor Group, a global sustainable biofuels company, has signed a rolling tolling contract with what it calls ‘one of Spain’s largest biodiesel refiners’.
The company states it is planning similar agreements with a number of other biodiesel refineries across Europe.
David Frohnsdorff, CEO of Ennovor, says the signed partnership with the un-named... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2014
US-headquartered advanced fuels company Aemetis has upgraded its biodiesel and refined glycerin production facility in Kakinada, India.
The 50 million gallon per year capacity facility can now produce high-quality distilled biodiesel. Built in 2008, it uses non-food byproducts from the edible oil industry as feedstock to supply the biofuel, pharmaceutical and industrial... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2014
The Energy Institute (EI), based in the UK, has been working to improve the test methods for predicting winter performance of diesel fuels, particularly those containing significant amounts of biodiesel.
EI claims one important winter performance parameter is the ‘cold soak’ filter blocking tendency of the fuel.
‘The existing EI test method is IP... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2014
The Greenwood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) has claimed to be the first short-rotation forest plantation in the world to earn certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).
The RSB certification covers GTFF's cultivation, management and harvesting of coppiced poplar trees, used as biomass feedstock for the cellulosic ethanol industry or pelletised for direct... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce biochemicals from vegetable oils.
Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2014
A new report by Navigant Research has revealed a sharp rise in the consumption of biofuels across the global road transportation sector.
The research body forecasts worldwide consumption in the sector will grow from more than the 32.4 billion gallons per year recorded in 2013 to more than 51.1 billion by 2022.
‘An increase in ethanol production capacity in the US... [Read More]
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Feb 12, 2014
Australia-based Sterling Plantations has recently sold a biodiesel plant to Malaysian company Gentings Plantations (GP).
The plant, reported to be worth around RM33 million (€7.3 million), is located in Sabah and represents the second facility of its kind to be purchased by GP.
GP has a subsidiary named ACGT, which is a business that focuses on developing genomics-based... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2014
US-based Renewable Energy Group has launched a new division which will sell petroleum-based heating oil and diesel fuel, and enable the company to offer more biofuel blends.
REG Energy Services will sell heating oil and ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) at seven terminals throughout the northeastern US as well as its BioHeat branded blended heating fuel at an existing REG... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2014
Results of a third-party peer-reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA), entitled Greenhouse Gas and Energy Life Cycle Assessment of Pine Chemicals Derived from Crude Tall Oil and Their Substitutes, has found diverting crude tall oil (CTO) into biofuel production throughout Europe will not have a significant effect in either reducing carbon emissions nor fossil fuel consumption.
CTO... [Read More]
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Jan 8, 2014
Residents of the city of Wheaton in Chicago, US have been encouraged to keep turning their used cooking oil over to the city following what it calls 'a successful trial'.
The public were asked to deliver cooking oil and bacon grease to an allotted storage yard throughout November 2013, which the city would then use to make biofuels.
City officials say, as well as... [Read More]
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Jan 8, 2014
Abandoned fields in Japan are being considered as a location for sweet sorghum crop plantations by a university interested in making biofuels.
A team from Ibaraki University wants to generate ethanol for road transportation potential and cultivated, yet unused, farmland near its location could prove a suitable place to grow its feedstock.
‘After fermentation and... [Read More]
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