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Jul 11, 2013
First generation biofuels to be capped in Europe
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Jul 11, 2013
Biodiesel of Las Vegas has become the first producer in Nevada, US to earn a BQ-9000 certification from the country’s National Biodiesel Board.
The certification is a voluntary programme hosted by the National Biodiesel Accreditation Programme for producers of BQ-9000 biodiesel. It combines the ASTM D6751 quality standard with a quality systems programme that focuses... [Read More]
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Jul 12, 2013
Forty-eight companies have joined forces with the European Commission this July to set up a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for bio-based industries.
The PPP brings together €3.8 billion ($4.9 million) with an aim to advance the bioeconomy in Europe. The European pulp and paper industry is one strategic partner in this PPP, with 13 of the 48 member companies from... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
UK biofuel supplier Gasrec has announced that its next bio-liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) refuelling station will be built at Avonmouth, near Bristol.
The station will be built on land adjacent to three motorways and be capable of refuelling up to 700 vehicles a day.
‘This represents a further step toward our goal of developing a national bio-LNG refuelling network,’... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
In an effort to reduce reliance on petroleum-based fuel in Jamaica its government is seeking billions of dollars for biofuels investment.
Phillip Paulwell , the minister of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, was quoted by local news sources as saying that a ‘biofuel energy source, if developed, could attract investments and create job opportunities’.
‘I... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
Indonesia-based Waterland will receive its new green biodiesel plant in Bali later this month. It is scheduled to open in September.
The plant, which will produce biodiesel from camelina with the aid of enzymes and ethanol, is being developed and delivered by Dutch company FirmTec. Once operational the plant will make biodiesel to power generators for the production of... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working to demonstrate that jet fuel can be manufactured economically and in large volumes from biomass materials such as switchgrass and has partnered with Cobalt Technology, the US Navy and Show Me Energy for the project.
The results of these tests will help decipher whether the process can be ramped... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Forest BtL Oy is developing a new biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant on Ajos Island, Finland.
The facility will utilise wood and by-products from the wood processing industry to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha.
The project is supported by the European Union NER300 funding programme for innovative renewable energy technologies.
The front-end engineering... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
Two senior economists at the World Bank believe it is high oil prices which are the most important driver of the increase in global food prices.
The report, put together by John Baffes and Allen Dennis, also finds that, under a mandated ethanol/gasoline mixture, ethanol and maize prices would decline.
The European Renewable Ethanol Association (ePure) backs this analysis... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
UK biofuel supplier Gasrec will work with global heavy-duty truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks to help its clients cut haulage costs while reducing carbon emissions.
The two companies will co-operate commercially and technically to increase the availability and promote the use of gas vehicles in the UK. Gasrec states that, when substituted for diesel, bio-LNG can cut fuel... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is to open up its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers, in a move that it hopes will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector.
The decision, made unanimously by NBB's governing board, consolidates the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry together to... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
US-based Oberon Fuels (OF), which has brought dimethyl ether (DME), a clean burning diesel alternative to market, has received a grant to produce fuel-grade DME at its facilities in California.
The $500,000 (€373,000) grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) will be used by OF to provide DME produced from biogas for supermarket brand... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah.
The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
An enzyme which is found in leaf-cutter ant colonies could hold a key to unlocking biofuel production, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin, US.
The researchers’ interest piqued after observing the ants converting plant biomass into food for energy.
‘As leaf-cutter ants are prodigious consumers of plant biomass, we hypothesized that the microbes... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
Renewable products business Amyris and fuel brand Total completed a new demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show using a technology that converts plant sugars into renewable jet fuel.
The Airbus A321 aircraft, powered by two Snecma CFM56 jet engines, flew from Toulouse to Paris on the fuel blend and represented the second flight from this project after an Embraer E195... [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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