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Nov 14, 2013
Ethanol movement ‘robust’ in Tampa, US
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Nov 14, 2013
US-based Adkins Energy has been awarded a $500,000 (€371,945) Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP) grant to begin construction on a $4.5 million biodiesel plant on the east side of its Illinois campus.
The 2 million gallon facility is expected to begin production in spring 2014. The company’s ethanol arm currently produces 1.5 million gallons of distillers... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2013
Ecopetrol reports it has been awarded a patent from the Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Trade for a technology which makes it possible generate biofuels by refining vegetable oils and heavy oil fractions (such as gas oils) in a single process. The development, called Process for hydrotreating vegetable oil mixed with heavy oil fractions is the third patent related... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2013
Boeing and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes are to work together to speed the research, development and approval of new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil.
Their collaboration will support GOL's plans to use this lower-carbon jet fuel on more flights during upcoming major sporting events, including the 2014 football World Cup, and also will benefit long-term... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2013
A report from a technical committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is, according to non-governmental organisations, under-estimating the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical peatlands by nearly 50%.
The low emissions estimate stems from a technical committee on wetlands of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2013
Sugar producer Roxas has sold 31% of its 66% share in Roxas Holdings to Hong Kong-based First Pacific PHP2.23 billion (€37.8 million).
Pedro Roxas, executive chairman of Roxas, says the move ‘ends the group’s long search for a strategic partner and will accelerate our plan to be the dominant sugar company in the Philippines’.
The move reportedly... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2013
Imperium Renewables will move ahead with plans to expand its business at the US Port of Grays Harbour despite the Shoreline Hearings Board’s decision to require additional permitting work.
Imperium Terminal Services submitted permit applications for the construction of new storage tanks, rail infrastructure and office space over 10 acres within the port and adjacent... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2013
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its proposed figures for the amount of renewable fuels to be blended into petrol and diesel via the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Amid industry speculation that volumes required would be a lot lower than previously thought, the following figures were released on 15 November:
Cellulosic ethanol - 17 million gallonsBiomass-based... [Read More]
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Oct 24, 2013
Pinto Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids (GTL) facilities, is set to build a new plant on its site in Ohio, US.
The 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) plant will be built at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site and will convert low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into ultra clean transportation fuels and other products like solvents,... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2013
Gol airlines reports one of its planes covered the Sao Paulo-Brasilia route using biofuel, a first for Brazil's aviation industry.
The flight took place on 23 October to mark Day of the Aviator in the South American country.
The Boeing plane flew from Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport to Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek Airport in the country's capital.
Bio-kerosene, the fuel... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2013
The first biodiesel pump in the state of Maharashtra, India is set to arrive by the end of the year.
It will be operated by My Eco Energy in the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad and the biodiesel is set to be produced via treated waste materials, including vegetable oils and animal fats.
Santosh Verma, a director of My Eco Energy, said during a media address: ‘A biodiesel... [Read More]
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Oct 28, 2013
Scientists at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have acquired 200 hectares of coastal land in the Western Region to set up a demonstration farm with aims to start producing sustainable jet fuel from plants.
The Integrated Seawater Energy and Agriculture System Project plans to be 100% sustainable once operational, using aquaculture to eventually produce biofuels.
The... [Read More]
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Oct 28, 2013
US-based technology provider Monsanto and plant genomics company Evogene are to extend and expand a research and development collaboration involving biofuels feedstocks up to August 2016.
The collaboration, initially signed in 2008, has focused on identifying key plant genes related to yield, environmental stress and fertiliser use in corn, soyabean, canola and also... [Read More]
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Oct 29, 2013
Renewable energy company Darling International has completed the purchase of the rendering and biodiesel division of Maple Leaf Foods.
In a statement, Darling says it acquired Rothsay for approximately $645 million (€467.7 million) in cash.
Darling CEO Randall Stuewe believes the addition ‘will bring new solutions and opportunities to our many customers across... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2013
Austria-based Vogelbusch Biocommodities has announced the opening of a bioethanol plant in Alejandro Roca, Argentina this October.
The plant, owned by producing company Promaíz, has a capacity of 420,000 litres per day which makes it the largest of its kind in the country. The facility uses ethanol technology licensed by Vogelbusch designed for both high performance... [Read More]
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