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Aug 7, 2013
Dual roles cemented at US ethanol plants
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Aug 7, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded biotechnology company Microvi Biotechnologies a grant to develop its breakthrough technology that improves the yield and performance of biobutanol processes.
Microvi claims its MicroNiche technology overcomes the toxic and inhibitory effects on butanol producing microorganisms, a ‘major bottleneck in scaling existing... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2013
The Shanghai Food and Drug Safety Authorities has been working with Tongji University to provide city buses with biodiesel in 2014.
The partnership conducted a toxic oil recycling programme and will now use swill oil as the basis of fuel for 1,000 buses, despite officials admitting the two processors the city boasts are ‘limited’.
Swill oil made headlines for... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2013
Ethanol is set to benefit from a 46% rise in loans to sugarcane mills in Brazil this year.
Brazil’s state development bank is expecting to loan BR6 billion ($2.6 billion), which is up from BR4.1 billion in 2011.
Artur Yabe Milanez, biofuels manager within the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social, says it has been lowering rates on loans for cane mills... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2013
Production at a Green Fuel-owned ethanol plant in Zimbabwe has resumed after the company entered a 49-51% joint venture with the government.
The plant stopped production after Green Fuel failed to get government approval for mandatory ethanol blending within the country, plus the government had other concerns including the company’s shareholding structure.
It is... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2013
A man who lives in Tampa, US is up for trial after it was discovered he conned millions of dollars out of investors by allegedly pretending he worked within Florida’s alternative fuels sector.
William Vasden Jr, who reportedly owns a local gun shop, is supposed to have reaped $3.5 million (€2.6 million) by claiming to be a successful farmer, who had bountiful... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2013
Amyris, a renewable chemicals and fuels company, has entered into agreement for the sale of convertible notes in a private placement for up to $60 million (€44.9 million) in cash proceeds.
Under the terms of the agreement Temasek, one of Amyris's largest stockholders, agreed to purchase $35 million of the notes in an initial tranche and, at Amyris's election, up to... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2013
UK-based business Insight Commodities (IC), which was offering investment into an untraceable biofuels project in Africa, has been wound up.
After an investigation by the Insolvency Service, which discovered IC had taken over £1 million (€1.1 million) from around 100 investors for a so-called project in Mozambique, the company stopped trading in July.
Registrar... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2013
An agreement between the US and Colombia hopes to increase the amount of sugarcane residue and palm oil harvesting intended for fuel ethanol and future blending.
The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory will work with Ecopetrol to look at ways of improving bagasse conversion processes and analyse the economic potential of commercial biofuels... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2013
A record for biodiesel production has been claimed this August by the US state of Iowa.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) believes a combination of ‘a strong federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and reinstatement of the federal biodiesel blenders’ tax credit’ has led to state facilities producing 56.7 million gallons of biodiesel during the... [Read More]
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Aug 12, 2013
Advanced biofuels development in the US has been awarded millions of dollars in investment by its Department of Energy (DoE).
A total of $16.5 million (£12.4 million) is to be split between projects located in Hawaii, California and New Mexico, all centred around the development of sustainable and affordable algae-based biofuels, plus $6 million is going to biomass... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2013
US ethanol producing company Ace Ethanol has completed the purchase of a dormant ethanol plant in Wisconsin.
The price is a reported $16.5 million (€12.6 million) and Ace is aiming to reopen the facility in the autumn. Ace co-founder Robert Sather was quoted as saying to build a plant of this size, capable of producing 50 million gallons a year, from new would cost... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2013
Sugar analysis system developer Carbo Analytics (CA) has received one of 79 available grants from the US Department of Energy which will go towards the development of a biofuels sugar analysis system.
The grant came in at $150,000 (€115,000) and CA, in partnership with microwave digestion system provider CEM, will now start to prepare biomass samples. The end... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2013
London mayor Boris Johnson is calling on the UK’s biofuel industry to turn more of London’s waste, such as cooking oil, into biodiesel for the capital’s bus network.
It is claimed vehicles running on biodiesel produce around 25% fewer carbon emissions than those running on traditional fuel. London’s bus fleet uses approximately 250 million... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2013
Independent bulk liquid storage operator Vopak has teamed up with Magellan Midstream Partners to jointly evaluate building a storage terminal in the Houston Gulf Coast area.
Under a recently signed joint development agreement, the two parties will carry out a feasibility study for the new facility, which will store and handle crude oil, refined products and ethanol.
Vopak... [Read More]
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