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Dec 3, 2013
Biochemtex invests millions in North Carolina cellulosic biofuels facility
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Dec 3, 2013
Researchers at two leading Scottish universities have embarked on a £1.1m (€1.3 million) project to find a clean and effective way of producing biofuel using solar energy.
Robert Gordon University (RGU) experts Professor Linda Lawton and Professor Peter Robertson, alongside University of St Andrews Professor John Irvine, have been awarded funding by the Engineering... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2013
Argentina, one of the world's leading biodiesel producers, will require a 10% biodiesel blend in fuel burned for power generation, according to government officials.
In a bid to boost the struggling biofuels sector and increase the use of 'green fuels', the blending requirement for biofuel in the diesel used to run local vehicles will also be stepped to 10% in January,... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
A grant has been awarded by the Western Australian government to help expand a renewable fuels programme.
The Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation (AAC) will put the AU$25,000 (€17,600) into its AshOil programme, which uses used cooking oil to produce about 15,000 litres of biodiesel each week.
It is believed AAC currently supplies mining company Rio Tinto with 50,000... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
The waste-to-biofuels plant to be built in Sofia, Bulgaria is now scheduled to begin construction in early 2014.
Plans are reportedly to be drawn up by Greek company Aktor-Helektor, which won the construction tender in April, in December as final contracts are due to be signed off this month.
It is hoped the plant will treat over three quarters of the capital’s waste... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded nearly $10 million (€7.3 million) to a consortium, led by Colorado State University (CSU), to study the challenges limiting the use of insect-killed trees as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy and renewable fuels.
CSU researchers, together with other scientists from universities, government and private industry... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2013
Tank Storage Asia, taking place on 10 and 11 December 2013 at Singapore Expo, has secured its best ever conference line up. Over 20 leading authorities in the Asian bulk liquid storage sector will deliver sessions on the critical issues spanning the whole region - from the Middle East to China and New Zealand.
On the first day of the Tank Storage Asia conference, Nurul... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2013
An initiative for the development of sustainable jet fuels has been announced, bringing together key players in the Nordic aviation sector.
The Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation (NISA) is made up of airports, airlines and their industry federations, and aviation authorities. Airbus and Boeing have been named as supporters of the initiative, as well as... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2013
GE Aviation (GE) has announced it has signed an agreement to buy cellulosic biofuel to broaden its fuel sources for jet engine testing.
As of 2016, the Washington DC-based D'Arcinoff Group will supply at least 500,000 gallons of the fuel annually for GE's main testing facility in Ohio.
The 10-year agreement contains options for GE to order up to 10 million... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2013
Mewah International, a palm oil refining business in Malaysia, is set to acquire a biodiesel plant from alternative fuel processing company Gomedic.
The deal is reported to be in the region of $13 million (£9.7 million) and includes over 25,000 m3 of land. The purchase will be completed in the first quarter of 2014.
Mewah believes the plant is ‘strategically... [Read More]
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Nov 11, 2013
Brazil-based construction business Odebrecht is believed to be planning to separate the cogeneration from its sugar and ethanol operations to create a new bioelectricity company.Odebrecht currently produces 816MW of electricity by burning the sugarcane bagasse left over from its production of sugar, but it is believed the 2013/14 harvest will be able to generate about... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Deinove, a technological company which designs, develops and markets industrial processes based on Deinococci bacteria, has revealed its plant chemistry development programme has been chosen by the French Enivronment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) and the General Investment Commission.
The programme, called Deinochem, will aim to produce a new generation of chemical... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Petrotec, a European producer of waste-based biodiesel predominantly from used cooking oil, announced revenues at group level of €144.6 million for the first nine months of 2013.
This new total is up €21 million for the same time last year. The company also generated an operating profit (EBIT) of €6.2 million in the first nine months of 2013 (up €3.1... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2013
Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission traffic fuels, is to promote the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels in the Netherlands after committing to a Dutch initiative for the sector.
Neste is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production. Its renewable fuel refinery... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
It has been reported biodiesel entering the US from Argentina could double reach double the amount recorded a year ago.
Figures released by Bloomberg Businessweek state 450,000 tonnes of the renewable fuel will appear on the US market through December, way up from the 221,000 tonnes recorded in 2012.
Despite this news, Argentina’s annual export figure is expected... [Read More]
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