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Jan 3, 2014
New enzymes discovered for positive advanced biofuel creation
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Jan 3, 2014
The board of directors of Sinav, which owns GTL Resources (GTL) and Illinois River Energy (IRE), is to sell off the ethanol business.
IRE is an ethanol production facility, located in Rochelle, which owns and operates a 125 million gallon per year ethanol plant that commenced operations in 2006. Additionally GTL, the company’s business development arm, is advancing... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2014
The Public Utility Commission (PUC) in Hawaii has turned down a second attempt by a local biodiesel producer to supply product to a power plant.
Honolulu-based Aina Koa Pono reportedly wants approval to sell around 16 million gallons of biofuel a year to Hawaii Electric Light on a 20 year contract via a proposed new $450 million (€330 million) facility.
But the PUC... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2014
Australia-based research company Actinogen, which works with a group of environmental bacteria known as actinomycetes, is to collaborate with Leaf Energy on its glycerol pre-treatment process.
Leaf will spend up to AU$100,000 (€65,800) to further fund studies on bioethanol with Actinogen, as certain strains of actinomycetes produce enzymes which can break down cellulose... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2014
US-based Heliae, a developer of advanced algae production technologies, commenced operations at its first commercial facility in Arizona late last year.
Using its Volaris-brand platform, the commercial facility will initially operate at 33% of its capacity to produce high-value algae products for nutraceutical and personal care products but biofuels represents another... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2014
Seven universities in the US are to share a multi-million federal research grant to develop non-food feedstocks for biofuels.
The educational bodies, based in Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Georgia, Indiana and North Carolina, will split a reported $8 million (€5.8 million) to conduct research on improving biofuel-related aspects coming from trees and grasses.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2014
US-based petroleum-related business Ergon has acquired, through its Ergon Ethanol subsidiary, Bunge North America's interest in a previously joint-owned biofuels facility in Mississippi.
The move means Ergon Ethanol now owns 100% of the Bunge-Ergon Vicksburg plant and, as of 31 December 2013, it was renamed Ergon BioFuels. Financial terms were not disclosed but the move... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2014
Firefighting crews were called out in early January to deal with a leaky 30,000 gallon tanker containing ethanol in Arizona, US.
Employees of Union Pacific Railroad noticed the leak at a train yard in Phoenix and, upon arrival, firefighters estimated the tanker had been releasing ethanol at a rate of 100 gallons an hour.
The remaining product was offloaded over several... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2013
A new study by the Imperial College, London, has suggested that bamboo ethanol may be a promising alternative to petrol.
According to the research, published in Biotechnology for Biofuels, the composition of bamboo is similar to energy grasses that are used in biofuel production, including switchgrass.
Bamboo, the researchers highlight, has a cell wall that comprises cellulose,... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2013
A company based in Pilbara, western Australia that recycles cooking oil from mining camps to make biofuel has announced plans to begin developing cleaning products from glycerol.
The Ashburton Aboriginal Corp. launched its subsidiary biodiesel company, AshOil, in 2010 after investigating alternative fuel sources in light of rising diesel costs.
Used cooking oil for biodiesel... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2013
PGF Biofuels, in conjunction with Paterson Grain, has become the first Canadian organisation to receive Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) certification.
The certification is for Resonance carinata, an oilseed crop well adapted to production in semi-arid regions with an oil profile PGF says is ideally suited for use in the renewable aviation and biodiesel fuel... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2013
Global science-based company Royal DSM has announced that together with Denmark-based DONG Energy it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale.
DONG Energy, through its subsidiary Inbicon, develops technology for conversion and refining of soft ligno-cellulosic biomass into fuel, feed, and green chemistry products.
DSM... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2013
German biodiesel exports have rocketed this year, according to the German Federal Statistical Office (GFSO).
The GFSO puts foreign sales between January and September 2013 at 1.1 million tonnes (330 million gallons), almost 14% up on the same period in 2012. Imports have dropped by one quarter from the previous year, to 446,833 tonnes (134.1 million gallons). Export surplus... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2013
US biomass-based diesel imports in September were nearly double the volume of August, according to the latest figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The EIA defines 'biomass-based diesel' as 'biodiesel and other renewable diesel fuel or diesel fuel blending components derived from biomass, but excluding renewable diesel fuel co-processed with petroleum... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2013
Construction of a new commercial biomass to ethanol plant has begun in Brazil.
The $100 million (€72.9 million) project between Raizen Energia and technology provider Iogen will be located by Raizen’s sugarcane mill in Sao Paulo and aims to produce 40 million litres of cellulosic ethanol a year from sugarcane bagasse and straw.
Iogen will supply all related... [Read More]
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