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Jun 21, 2013
US ethanol production currently posting lower figures
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Jun 21, 2013
Technip, a France-based project management and engineering company, has won a multi-million euro front end contract to build a second generation biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant in Finland.
The €5 million ($6.6 million) contract was awarded by Forest BtL and the facility will be built on Ajos island. It aims to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2013
US-based Genscape, the first approved Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) QAP provider, is now obtained further EPA approval for biofuels produced at foreign facilities and imported into the country.
This means foreign biofuel producers can now obtain Genscape-certified QAP RINs to improve marketability and hopefully increase buyer confidence.
‘We know our... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
A move to block the sale of E15 blended petrol in the US has been quashed by the US Supreme Court this June.
The court rejected a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the chief lobbying group for the oil industry, that the blend was unsafe for consumption in cars and motorcycles built pre-2001.
Bob Greco, a senior API official, claimed the use of E15 ‘could... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
US-based Red Rock Biofuels has won a multi-million dollar contract to produce biofuels for the US military.
The company was one of four to have private investments matched by funds from the Defence Production Act under the Advanced Biofuels Production Project. This project is hoped to produce military-grade fuels under $4 (€3) a gallon within three years.
RRB’s... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
Dutch company Firmtec, which provides vegetable oil processing systems, is set to deliver what it calls the ‘first ever plant capable of producing 100% green biodiesel’.
The facility will be owned and operated by Indonesian company Waterland and will make the biodiesel via enzymes and ethanol, using oil from the Camelina sativa plant.
The biodiesel plant will... [Read More]
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Jun 26, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will make up to $98.6 million (€75.6 million) available to support advanced biofuels production.
Eligible producers can submit applications to obtain a share of the pot, including those that did not apply during the last window in October 2012
‘The US is on the path to a cleaner, more secure energy future,’ US agriculture... [Read More]
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May 24, 2013
A US-based biodiesel production plant has received investment from Itochu Enex Co. (Enex) and Itochu.
The 50 million gallon per year facility is being developed by Flint Hills Resources Renewables and biodiesel process technology company Benefuel in Beatrice, Nebraska.
The projected production volume of this facility alone corresponds to approximately 5% of the current... [Read More]
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May 28, 2013
Germany-based biotechnology company Direvo Industrial has been granted US and European patents covering novel cellulase enzymes.
These enzymes, according to Direvo, cleave plant-based cellulose into small sugars and can be used in numerous applications including production of biofuels, pulp and paper and synthesis of platform chemicals from renewable sources.
The granted... [Read More]
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May 28, 2013
Researchers at the Spain-based University of Alicante have patented a new device which allows cultivation of microalgae to be used in biofuel production.
The group, centred in polymer processing and pyrolysis, have designed and developed a device, incorporating a photobioreactor, which can allow for mass production via less cleaning and maintenance operations, a practical... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
The Zambian government is to start importing ethanol from Zimbabwe as a way of lowering high fuel prices within the country.
An MoU with Zimbabwe-based company Green Fuel is due to be signed after mines, energy and water development deputy minister Charles Zulu completed a tour of its facilities in Harare.
Zulu reaffirmed the deal would be short-term while the Zambian... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
FuturaGene, which works in the enhancement of yield and sustainability in woody crops for biopower and biofuel markets, will work with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre (DDPSC) to test its technology on staple crops grown by farmers in Asia, Africa and Brazil.
Yield enhancement technology will be tested on model plants and, if successful, transferred to specific... [Read More]
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May 29, 2013
Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA) has completed research trials targeting jatropha trees as a feedstock source for sustainable biodiesel.
It is now moving to establish above ground oil fields in central America as a staged entry into a market forecasted to exceed $500 billion (€386 billion) by 2019. AFA already operates a 25 acre pilot plantation with 40,000 mature... [Read More]
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May 30, 2013
Global energy brand Exxon Mobil (EM) has revealed it will restructure its attack on biofuels from algae after struggling to reach commercial viability.
EM has reportedly invested over $100 million (€77 million) on the project, in conjunction with US-based Synthetic Genomics (SG), since 2009 and had hoped to hit its target goal within 10 years.
This new stance was... [Read More]
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May 30, 2013
US-based Fulcrum Energy (FE), which works in the waste to biofuels sector, will use a new grant from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to develop renewable drop-in biofuels for aircraft.
The DoD awarded FE $4.7 million (€3.6 million) toward the research, which it will also potentially double from its own capital to help complete the development of its first... [Read More]
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