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Dec 11, 2013
Sugarcane project set to benefit Brazilian ethanol market
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Dec 11, 2013
US-based Greenleaf Biofuels produced its one millionth gallon of biodiesel at the end of October this year.
The milestone came since commercial production at its New Haven Terminal location in Connecticut began in the summer.
The fuel will primarily be blended into the region’s heating oil supply enabling consumers to heat their homes and businesses with a product... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2013
A lecturer in transportation engineering at the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland believes Irish motorists could be relying on feedstock like sea lettuce to fuel their cars in the future.
Jerry Murphy, who has a PhD in energy production from waste, has presented the potential for biomethane produced from slurry and grass via anaerobic digestion. This could help the... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2013
German biodiesel quality association AGQM has completed an oxidation stability study of biodiesel created from rapeseed oil using various additives and storage conditions.
It spent nine months storing biodiesel under both ideal and realistic storage conditions, blended with four conventional oxidation stabilisers.
Sampling took place every month and measurements were taken... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2013
Simadan Holding is to invest over €65 million ($89.2 million) in a new second generation biodiesel plant in the Netherlands to increase capacity for growth in the waste-to-biofuels market.
The plant will be located in Amsterdam and operated by Simadan subsidairy Biodiesel Amsterdam.
The company claims the plant will enable it to increase its biodiesel production... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2013
Florida-based Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA) will initiate trial production runs of jatropha-based biodiesel to verify its processes and procedures.
The trials will be conducted in three phases, the first of which is set to begin before the New Year. AFA will be using feedstock from its plantation in Costa Rica and the biodiesel produced will be used for testing and... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2013
Germany-based BDI-Bioenergy International has announced the ‘successful’ start-up of the ‘biggest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant’ in France.
The facility, worth €16.4 million ($22.5 million) and handed over to Estener, uses category one animal fats and used cooking oil as feedstock and has a capacity of 75,000 tonnes per year.
The project... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2013
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a €65 million ($89.3 million) loan to support Biochemtex, an engineering subsidiary of second generation biofuel production technology provider Mossi and Ghisolfi Group.Biochemtex’s 2013-2016 investment programme will look into ways to improve technologies for converting non-food biomass to biofuels and other chemical... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2013
Engineering and technology solutions provider China New Energy (CNE) has won two contracts to develop biorefinery projects in Hungary.
The value of the two contracts, signed with Visontai Bioetanol and Helvéciai, is worth €72 million ($97.2 million) over a four year period. CNE has already completed designs for both projects as part of the tendering process.
The... [Read More]
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Nov 20, 2013
US-based Renewable Energy Group (REG) cut the ribbon on a new barge loading facility at the company’s Illinois biorefinery in November.
The gathering, during the opening ceremony, witnessed the first barge shipment of 420,000 gallons of biodiesel from the multi-feedstock, 60 million gallon annual capacity plant located by the Illinois river.
The barge loading facility... [Read More]
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Nov 20, 2013
Biofuel developer LanzaTech has announced it is 'the first' to have its jet biofuel certified by the independent Roundtable on Sustainable Biomass (RSB).
The company's new biofuel plant near Beijing, according to airline partner Virgin Atlantic, has secured the certification by confirming the fuel does not negatively impact the food chain or contribute to... [Read More]
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Nov 20, 2013
A blaze at a biodiesel manufacturing plant in Arizona, US broke out on 16 November.
It is believed a forklift punctured a 330 gallon tank containing an unidentified chemical which sparked the fire, which set off the plant’s sprinkler system.
Local firefighting crews and a hazardous materials team responded to clean up the leftover damage and to secure the site.
Gilbert... [Read More]
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Nov 20, 2013
French retail group Les Mousquetaires has opened what it claims is the first biodiesel from non-edible waste factory in the country.
The group, which also owns the second biggest fuel distribution in France, has gone into partnership with German biomass processors Saria Group and the €40 million ($54 million) Estener project is situated in an industrial area of Le... [Read More]
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Nov 22, 2013
BioPower Operations has announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, Global Energy Crops, entered into a 50-50 joint venture agreement with Alternative Green Today (AGT) to license the JV's intellectual property for the production of cellulosic biofuels.
Global Energy will manage the JV, which will target oil companies, sugar companies and all other producers of ethanol and... [Read More]
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Nov 22, 2013
Critics are railing against the US military’s efforts to adopt biofuels for use in its vehicles, a US newspaper reports.
Processing costs and above-market prices have led to claims that the expensive technology is unlikely to yield positive results and has been unsuccessful so far. Biofuel used last year to power the US navy’s ‘green fleet’... [Read More]
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The American Coalition for Ethanol (@ACE) has praised the inclusion and extension of the Clean Fuel Production Credit — commonly referred to as Section 45Z — in the final tax and spending package passed by Congress.
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