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Nov 1, 2013
Chickens to benefit from bioethanol by-product research
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Nov 1, 2013
Research at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan has developed a microwave-based process which transforms waste cooking oils into biodiesel in 10 seconds.
The team was led by the visiting Aharon Gedanken from the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
‘I was told Taiwanese people like to cook a lot but waste cooking oils are a problem for the... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2013
An ethanol biorefinery in Iowa, US is offering retailers grants to install new fuel pumps to dispense a higher blends of ethanol than the current E10 available at many petrol stations.
The biorefinery is offering the $15,000 to five willing retailers which agree to install the blender pumps, capping the total project cost at $75,000.
'We wanted to come up with a programme... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2013
It has been reported auto manufacturer MAN Latin America has completed tests on diesel made from sugarcane.
The company is believed to have performed over 500 hours of testing on Euro 5 engines within four Volkswagen Constellation trucks and another two Volkswagen model 24280 vehicles. All six ran on 100% sugarcane diesel throughout the month of June in Rio De Janeiro,... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
Sequential Pacific Biodiesel (SPB), a commercial biodiesel producer in the US, has added two new suppliers of feedstock to its roster this autumn.
Woodland Park Zoo and Husky Stadium, home of the Washington Huskies, have become cooking oil recycling customers and both join a list of others which, last year alone, helped SPB recycle enough oil from Washington to offset... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
The 5,000 tonnes of waste generated in the city of Chennai, India, per day has the potential to be converted to 120 million litres of aviation fuel and 40.5 million litres of diesel per year.
An expert told newspaper The New Indian Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process - a technology developed by NASA - the waste could be generated into wealth.
Vinod... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2013
The Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science and Technology joint venture has earned the Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterial's sustainability certification for a facility which converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels.
RSB claims the facility is the first RSB-certified biofuel plant in China and also the first of its kind anywhere to receive certification... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Canada-based ethanol producing company Energentium is close to entering full production at its new plant in Ontario.
The company is due to start recycling soft drink and beer waste into ethanol at the 15 million litres a year facility before the end of 2013. The plant, which uses a reverse osmosis process, can also handle other waste feedstocks such as fruit, jams, sweets... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Multi-national company Cargill has begun operating its corn wet mill ethanol plant in Iowa, US.
It purchased the idled facility from global ingredients supplier Tate and Lyle back in 2011. The plant, according to Cargill, will provide the base load corn grind for the campus and will eventually support additional business growth in the future.
‘When full production... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2013
Corn prices in the US are trading near the lowest level in over three years, with several reports believing this is because farmers have accelerated harvesting of a potential record crop.
The US Department of Agriculture is believed to confirm its forecast increase for corn in early November, with country-wide corn production reportedly set to rise by 28% to a record 13.8... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2013
Market and technology company BDI-BioEnergy International has signed a contract with Croatian government representatives to kick-start a pioneering biodiesel pioneer project in the country.
The project is set to establish the largest multi-feedstock biodiesel plant both in Croatia and south-east Europe and will cost approximately €20 million ($27 million). The total... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2013
Beta Renewables, a cellulosic biofuels business and part of the Mossi Ghisolfi Group, and Novozymes, a producer of industrial enzymes, marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced biofuels facility this October.
Situated in fields outside the city of Crescentino, it is claimed to be ‘the first plant in the world’ to be... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2013
An award-winning University of Queensland researcher hopes to use a chemical found in lemons and other citrus fruits to produce clean, renewable jet fuel.
Claudia Vickers, a senior researcher at the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, is modifying baker's yeast to produce a synthetic form of the natural... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2013
SG Biofuels (SGB), an energy crop company has signed a mandate letter with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the debt financing of its 25,000 acre jatropha bioenergy project in Guatemala. The project cost is estimated at approximately $76 million (€56.1 million).
This enables IDB and SGB to proceed with financial, technical and environmental due... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2013
Avianca Brasil, one of the country's fastest-growing airlines, has announced its selection of the Byogy Renewables Alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fully renewable aviation biofuel process to source their low carbon fuels for the future.
Byogy's fuels are direct, 'drop-in' substitutes for petrol-based fuels. Based in San Jose, California, the renewable energy company produces advanced... [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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